A Miami Cop Is In Trouble For Wearing A Pro-Trump Mask Near An Early Voting Site – By Stephanie K. Baer (BuzzFeed) / Oct 20 2020
“It was a brazen act of intimidation,” said Miami-Dade Democratic Party chair Steve Simeonidis, who captured the now-viral image of the officer.
Miami police say an officer will be disciplined after he donned a pro-Trump mask while dressed in full uniform with a badge and his gun at an early voting site Tuesday in what one Democrat described as a “brazen” attempt at voter intimidation.
Steve Simeonidis, the chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, was moving through the lobby of the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami around 10:30 a.m. when he spotted Officer Daniel Ubeda in a mask that read, “TRUMP 2020; NO MORE BULLSHIT,” walking toward the early voting site inside the county government building.
Simeonidis told BuzzFeed News Ubeda got within 10 feet of people who were voting. Under Florida law, only voters, poll workers, official poll watchers, and other individuals approved by election supervisors are permitted to enter a polling place. No one is allowed to solicit voters inside or within 150 feet of the entrance to a voting site, and it is illegal under both state and federal laws to intimidate voters by any means.
Simeonidis said he was so shocked by the officer’s behavior and felt he needed to take a photograph.
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