Miami Beach Police Intimidate Citizen - For Anti-Israel Facebook Post

Miami Beach Police Intimidate Citizen - For Anti-Israel Facebook Post

Jan. 20, 2025

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A police visit to a Miami Beach resident over a Facebook comment criticizing Israel and the mayor has turned into a national news story and led to condemnation from First Amendment groups.

Viral video taken by Raquel Pacheco shows two Miami Beach Police Department detectives visiting her home on January 12th, to question her about a Facebook comment saying that Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner "consistently calls for the death of all Palestinians."

The detectives asked if she posted the comment, which appeared under a Facebook post by Meiner, who is of the Jewish faith, claiming that Miami Beach is a "safe haven for everyone."

The detectives warned that the comment could potentially "incite somebody to do something radical."

"This is freedom of speech, this is America, right? I'm a veteran," Pacheco told the officers.

"And I agree with you 100 percent," one officer responded. "We're just trying to see if it's you, because if we're not talking to the right person, we want to go see who the right person is."

"We're just trying to prevent someone else from getting agitated or agreeing with the statement," one of the detectives told Pacheco. "We're not saying it's true or not."

Pacheco refused to answer the officers' questions without a lawyer. In an interview with The Washington Post, Pacheco said her comments weren't incitement, but free expression.

"If we can't hold this line, we are screwed," Pacheco told The Washington Post.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a free speech group, sent a letter on Friday to Miami Beach Police Chief Wayne Jones condemning the visit.

"The purpose of their visit was not to investigate a crime," Aaron Terr, FIRE's director of public advocacy, wrote. "It had no purpose other than to pressure Pacheco to cease engaging in protected political expression over concern about how others might react to it. This blatant overreach is offensive to the First Amendment."

Although police and politicians on the receiving end of inflammatory criticism may believe the threat is clear enough, there is a difficult First Amendment bar to clear to meet the legal standard for incitement. Under the test that the Supreme Court established in the landmark First Amendment case Brandenburg v. Ohio, the government has to prove that the rhetoric at issue incited violence or threats of violence, and that the incitement was imminent, likely, and intentional.

Pacheco's comments do not include any call to action or the sort of imperative statements usually associated with incitement.

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