Keandra Simmons, a Black Miami officer who filed a complaint after being demoted from a major to a lieutenant, said she continues to be harassed by the senior officer named in her complaints, according to the Miami Herald. Simmons' attorney, Michael Pizzi, said other officers were able to listen in over police radio airwaves last week when a confrontation unfolded between Capt. Javier Ortiz and Simmons. The officers were responding to a fire. Pizzi said the rest of the dispute took place in the office of his client’s commanding officer, Ernie Sierra. According to Pizzi, Sierra sat idly and listened as Simmons was scolded by Ortiz, who outranks the lieutenant, but isn’t in her direct chain of command. The captain was upset because the lieutenant allegedly questioned an order. Pizzi wrote a letter to city leaders and Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo last week, demanding the city to “cease and desist the outrageous retaliatory act of permitting Capt. [Javier] Ortiz to continue to...
