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When Democratic activist Thomas Kennedy was detained at a news conference held by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last month and then removed, Miami-Dade police said it was because he was not a member of the press. But public records now show that Florida's top law-enforcement agency had warned the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) about Kennedy a day before the event, referring to him as a "known agitator." On April 8, Kennedy, a member of the Florida Democratic National Convention and a vocal critic of DeSantis, was detained by MDPD officers in a parking lot at PortMiami about a block from ...

The incident report, which Kennedy and Stern obtained in response to a public-records request, states that FDLE Special Agent Alejandro Oliva met with an MDPD sergeant on April 7 in reference to the governor's press conference the next day. Oliva told the sergeant about Kennedy, saying that he was a "known agitator" with a history of disrupting DeSantis' events. (Kennedy, who's 30, has garnered a reputation in recent years for crashing DeSantis' press conferences, publicly telling off the governor, and posting videos of his actions to social media.) The FDLE gave the MDPD a physical descr...