March 23, 2026, 6:28 p.m. ET A Miami Beach woman filed a federal lawsuit alleging her First Amendment rights were violated by the city. The lawsuit stems from a police visit to her home after she posted a critical comment on the mayor’s Facebook page. The woman is seeking a court order to prevent police from visiting her over protected speech and to unblock her from official accounts. A woman questioned by Miami Beach police over a Facebook comment she made criticizing the city’s mayor filed a federal lawsuit March 23, alleging the city violated her First Amendment rights to free speech. Raquel Pacheco was questioned on Jan. 12 after commenting on Mayor Steven Meiner’s Facebook post, where he called the city a “safe haven for everyone.” She disagreed. Pacheco commented that Meiner regularly calls “for the death of all Palestinians” and accused him of refusing to “stand up for the LGBTQ community in any way.” Afterward, police showed up at her front door, where she recorded video on her phone showing an officer telling her to “refrain from posting things like that.” She’s suing the police chief and the city of Miami Beach, which has been deeply shaped by
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