Photo surfaces of police chief making hand gesture

Miami constabulary serviceman investigated for expected 'white power' manus gesture, but person look astatine photograph of Police Chief calls intent into question

MIAMI, Fla. – Local 10 News archetypal reported however City of Miami Police Officer Daniel Ubeda was relieved of work portion helium was nether probe for a manus motion successful a photograph posted to societal media.

The manus motion was interpreted to beryllium a awesome for achromatic power, similar the one the Anti-Defamation League shows is co-opted by racists.

Now, after Local 10′s study astir the department’s probe of Ubeda’s move, a photograph has turned up from an lawsuit successful Houston erstwhile Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo was that city’s constabulary chief.

We spoke with Houston’s existent Chief Of Police Troy Finner who was determination erstwhile the photograph of Acevedo was snapped wherever Acevedo was “throwing up the threes.”

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“That’s astatine Jack Yates High School, Third Ward. There’s truthful overmuch pride. That’s a historically African-American assemblage successful Houston. If you speech to immoderate Third Ward person, they telephone it ‘throwing up the threes,” Finner said.

A speedy online searched showed each benignant of examples of Houston’s Third Ward motion of pridefulness including from vocalist Beyoncé repping her hometown.

So, what was Ubeda’s intent successful the arguable photo?

We asked Tommy Reyes president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police.

“Did helium cognize that manus awesome could beryllium construed arsenic a racist manus signal?”

Reyes, portion talking to us, showed america a awesome saying, “This awesome helium knows. This is, successful our opinion, a full antithetic signal.”

The constabulary union’s president said Ubeda was signaling 3 and 3 — six — which represented the fig of motormen connected his shift; it was thing to bash with achromatic power.

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It volition beryllium up to investigators to find grounds otherwise.

“I anticipation radical dilatory down and genuinely investigate,” Finner suggested. “Let the facts and grounds instrumentality them wherever it leads.”

Hours aft the photograph of Acevedo was unearthed, Reyes, connected behalf of FOP, wrote a missive to the main himself demanding that Ubeda beryllium reinstated to afloat work and that the probe against him beryllium dropped.

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