Raquel Pacheco said she has “hope” after seeing the worldwide reaction to the video she posted of two Miami Beach police detectives showing up at her house because she had posted a critical comment on Facebook about Miami Beach Mayor Steve Meiner.
“I’m very surprised,” she told CBS News Miami in an interview for “Facing South Florida.” “I’m shocked, actually, by just how the story has grown legs and taken over. It’s made national news and global news, and the reaction from the public is just, you know, overwhelming, overwhelmingly positive. It gives me hope.”
When asked why, Pacheco said it’s because it’s “a perfect example of Americans coming together around one issue we can all get behind, which is freedom of speech, the First Amendment [and] the Constitution.”…