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Start: 5:00 pm
ACLU Greater Miami Chapter Forum: How to Survive an Encounter with the Police --The police stop your car, knock on your door, or stop you on the street. Do you know your constitutional rights and how to assert them in a non-threatening, effective way to protect your safety and minimize unnecessary arrests? This program includes the 40-minute film Busted: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters. Public safety is not the sole responsibility of law enforcement. Locally, the ACLU has played an ongoing role in monitoring police practices. Community input and oversight of the police are necessary for public trust in government and the police. Learn what you can do to help ensure that citizens have a say in how the police do their job. Panel Members: Matthew Boyd, Chief of Police, Miami Gardens; Ray Taseff, PA, Criminal Defense Attorney; Attorneys from the Law Offices of Public Defender Carlos J. Martinez: Michelle Rosengarten, Assistant Public Defender and Antonio Valiente, Assistant Public Defender.
Start: 6:00 pm
One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of . . . Okay, we made that line up. What Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel do form is a writing team of pure comic genius, and they will have you laughing like idiots.Philip Horkman is a happy man-the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for kids' soccer. Jeffrey Peckerman is the sole sane person in a world filled with goddamned jerks and morons, and he's having a really bad day. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, terrorists, subversives, bears, and a man dressed as Chuck E. Cheese.Where that all takes them you can't begin to guess, but the literary journey in Lunatics (Putnam, $25.95) is a masterpiece of inspiration and mayhem. But what else would you expect from the League of Comic Justice?
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