Miami commissioner lashes out against ‘timid’ State Attorney

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Or ‘How Miami Police tried to extradite a Gables resident’

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Consider this a Political Cortadito Page Six tidbit.

Guess who was spotted having lunch Friday at Morton’s Steakhouse in Coral Gables? CJ Gimenez, the son of the Congressman who last week slapped Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla at the same Ponce de Leon restaurant and got arrested right after.

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It looks more like a bop.

Videos of the incident between CJ Gimenez, the congressman’s lobbyist son, and Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla at the Coral Gables Morton’s Steakhouse is out. And it doesn’t look so much like a slap as it does a bop on the head. Kinda like the NCIS guy is famous for.

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Updated: The son of Congressman Carlos Gimenez was released from jail late Thursday morning, posting $1,500 bond for a battery charge after slapping a Miami city commissioner at a Coral Gables restaurant almost 24 hours earlier.

But there are a lot of questions about the atypical arrest of CJ Gimenez in an incident that the Gables police chief called “unremarkable” and the “victim” himself, Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, said was a “flick of his wrist.”

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But arrest by Miami sergeant-at-arms seems like a conflict of interests

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