FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Testimony resumed Tuesday in a hearing over the deadly UPS shootout on Miramar Parkway. Officers who were in the sky and on the ground during the 2019 chase took the stand.
It was the second week of testimony in a hearing where a now-suspended Jose Mateo is trying to convince a judge he fired his weapon in self-defense while serving as an officer with what was then the Miami-Dade Police Department.
Mateo hopes that under the “stand your ground” statute, a judge will dismiss his manslaughter charge after two innocent victims were shot and killed following the deadly pursuit on Dec. 5, 2019…