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Miami Herald- In the hours since a high-speed chase took police across Miami-Dade and into Broward County and ended with a barrage of bullets and four people dead in Miramar on Thursday evening, Florida politicians, law enforcement officials and the family members of one victim have started to ask: Was a less violent outcome possible?
Genny Merino, the sister of UPS driver Frank Ordonez, who was taken hostage and died in the shootout, said in a post on Twitter early Friday morning that the police handled the situation poorly.
“Today I lost my brother, because of the [expletive] negligence and stupidity of the police,” she wrote. “Instead of negotiating with a hostage situation they just shot everyone.”
During the chase’s violent finale on Miramar Parkway, a cluster of cars stopped in peak rush-hour traffic became shields for police. Officers ran and ducked around pedestrians, who witnessed over 100 rounds of gunfire that looked like small bursts of light and smoke in the daylight.