Officer With History of Racism and Harassment of Women Promoted to Miami Police Captain

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Officer With History of Racism and Harassment of Women Promoted to Miami Police Captain

October 20th, 2017

Awake Goy

Javier Ortiz

Javier Ortiz, the head of Miami’s police union, was promoted from lieutenant to captain Wednesday, despite his past harassment of women of color and racist statements. Just a few months ago, Ortiz was recently assigned desk duty and stripped of his gun for harassing and doxxing a woman of color, after she reported a speeding police officer last year.

Ortiz responded by posting photos of Claudia Castillo and her personal cell phone number on Facebook and encouraging his followers to harass the woman, according to the Miami New Times. Castillo said she was concerned for her safety and was scared of Ortiz, who followed her to the City Hall parking lot after she testified. She requested an emergency restraining order. Ortiz was placed on desk duty in March, but regained his job in April. This wasn’t the first time he did something like this and got away with it. In 2015, he smeared Marilyn Smith, a woman who posted a video on Facebook of an officer beating a man in handcuffs. Castillo shared photos of Smith from her Facebook page, suggesting that Smith herself is violent, despite the fact that she did nothing illegal by filming the incident.

“Our community has accepted behavior that motivates violence in our younger generation,” Ortiz wrote. He tried to change the focus from the actual event in question — an officer beating a handcuffed man in a police car — to violence against police officers, by writing, “Social media has focused so much on #blacklifematters [sic] /alllifematters campaigns, yet nobody targets the root of the problem our community faces today.”

Ortiz’s harassment of women of color wasn’t limited to civilians, but extended to his colleagues. He accused the assistant chief of police, Anita Najiy, of not respecting the United States because she didn’t hold her hand over her heart during the Pledge of Allegiance during a promotional event at a college.

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