Wait, What? Miami Police Captain Suspended After Claiming He’s Black! "I Am A Black Male, I Am Not Hispanic”

A Hispanic police captain in Miami has been suspended for claiming he was a “black male” during a city commission meeting, department officials said.



Javier Ortiz was “relieved of duty with pay” on Wednesday pending an investigation, a police department spokesman confirmed to The Post.



Ortiz, who previously oversaw the department’s SWAT operations, is expected to be off the force indefinitely, Deputy Police Chief Ronald Papier told the Miami Herald.



Papier refused to indicate why Ortiz is being investigated, but the development follows Ortiz’s comments on Friday at a city commission meeting during which he claimed he was black instead of Hispanic while addressing allegations of discrimination within the police department.



“I am a black male,” Ortiz said, according to the Herald. “Yes, I am. And I am not Hispanic.”



Ortiz, the former president of the city’s police union, claimed he had black ancestry while citing the “one-drop rule,” insinuating that anyone with a single black ancestor is a person of color.



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