Overview
- Intelligence Unit detectives visited Raquel Pacheco’s Flamingo Park home to discuss a comment from her Facebook account that criticized Mayor Steven Meiner.
- A department spokesperson said the mayor’s office flagged the post for review, and officials characterized the doorstep conversation as brief and consensual to assess any immediate threat.
- Pacheco says the visit felt like intimidation and has retained attorney Miriam Haskell while filing public-records requests seeking details on how the inquiry began.
- Florida Politics reported photos that appear to show one of the same officers at a Meiner campaign event in October, raising questions about proximity between police and the mayor’s political activity.
- Meiner disputes the Facebook claim as false, no charges have been filed, and reporting notes Pacheco’s prior posts that used harsh language when criticizing Israel.