‘Dangerous Escalation’: Emails show Miami Beach mayor sent Facebook post to police

Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner emailed a screenshot of a resident’s negative Facebook comment about him to the city’s police chief one day before officers showed up at the woman’s home to question her about it — an incident that went viral and led to a wave of backlash.

“As we discussed, please see the post below,” Meiner wrote in a Jan. 11 email to Police Chief Wayne Jones, according to email records obtained Friday by the Miami Herald. The subject line of Meiner’s email was “Dangerous Escalation.”

Attached to the email was a screenshot of a Facebook comment by Raquel Pacheco, a former candidate for local and state offices. In the comment, Pacheco criticized a Facebook post that Meiner had written calling Miami Beach “a safe haven for everyone,” writing, in part, that Meiner “consistently calls for the death of all Palestinians.”