Questions surround strange arrest of CJ Gimenez for ‘battery’ in Coral Gables

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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