Former city commissioner goes from convict to confidante
Videos released Friday by Coral Gables Police are not the only footage revolving around the arrest of a U.S. Congressman’s son in Coral Gables Wednesday.
The five videos from CCTV cameras on nearby skyscrapers show the events that occurred at Morton’s Steakhouse on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, when CJ Gimenez slapped Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla on the head and got tackled by the commissioner’s bodyguard.
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.
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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