30 AMERICAN POLICE BEAT: SEPTEMBER 2017 Now the Honduran-born teenager is at the center of a lawsuit that could have huge implications. Miami Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez is a supporter of President Trump’s aggressive anti- immigrant policies. As a result, county jailers are obviously working in part- nership with ICE. But that support might come with a big price tag. This one was filed against Gimenez and Miami- Dade County by a coali- tion of advocacy groups, including the University of Miami School of law’s immigration clinic and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida. The suit alleges that county jail officials act- ed illegally by detaining Creedle for two days at the request of US Cus- toms and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) as a “removable alien” even after his bond payment had posted. If you read the last issue of American Police Beat you may have seen an article where a Florida sheriff (who also happens to be an attorney) explained why “partnering” or work- ing for ICE is a landmine, legally speaking. Here’s the problem for the defendants. Not only is Creedle a US citizen, making him ineligible for deportation, but Miami- Dade’s actions in holding anyone on an immigration detainer without a valid arrest warrant is illegal under both the US Con- stitution and Florida law. Again, this where the “what part of illegal don’t you people understand” crowd generally tends to tune out entirely. But for folks that don’t want to get hit with legal judgments and monetary damages, the Creedle case is instruc- tive. “That a US citizen was held illustrates the prob- lematic nature of these detainers, and one of our claims is there’s an insuf- ficient probable cause finding on the detainer,” Rebecca Sharpless, Cree- dle’s attorney and director of the immigration clinic at UM law school, told the UK Guardian. “We warned the county; we wrote to the mayor and commis- sioners before they decid- ed to go forward, stating it was unlawful and that it was bad policy because it mixes immigration policy with our criminal justice system. They failed to heed our warning.” There’s also the ques- tion of whether or not local law enforcement, to the degree they do work with and for ICE, should focus on serious offenders not those guilty of minor infractions like failure to signal or loitering. Continued from page one More lawsuits The shooting death of Justine Damond by a Min- neapolis police officer has sent shock waves through the community and around the world. Not only has Australia’s prime minister weighed in saying that Damond’s death was a “shocking kill- ing,” now Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau has been forced to resign. “Justine didn’t have to die,” said Chief Janee Har- teau, according to a recent article in the Star Tribune. “I believe the actions in question go against who we are as a department, how we train and the ex- pectations we have for our officers.” The Minneapolis Police Federation President Bob Kroll has denied most re- quests for comment about the incident. When asked about why the union wasn’t backing the officer that shot and killed Ms. Damond, Kroll said he learned his lesson after he publicly defended the two officers involved in the November 2015 shoot- ing of Jamar Clark. Kroll said that Hodges and Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau “con- demned me for my swift response” after he backed the two officers involved. “The chief came out one complete year later and regurgitated what I said,” Kroll said in a series of text messages recently. “But I was the hated one for it all.” Uproar over shooting Limited time offer: get your own FREE subscription at http://www.apbweb.com/free