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On Thursday evening (May 8, 2025), three popular Miami Instagram accounts posted a two-minute video portraying a police officer bickering with a parking employee after receiving a parking ticket during a coffee run.
The video, captured on the officer’s body-worn camera, begins with the cop returning to his parked police car with a coffee cup in hand to find a Miami Parking Authority employee issuing him a ticket…