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A Broward graffiti artist is reportedly in critical condition after being hit by an unmarked Miami Police Department car Friday morning. The man, 21-year-old Delbert Rodriguez Gutierrez of Pembroke Pines, was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital after he was seen tagging a wall in Wynwood.

Wynwood is the site in Miami of the annual Art Basel, which attracts thousands of visitors to take in art shows, as well as being home to artists who paint murals and graffiti on its many walls and warehouses.

There's an undercover Miami Police unit assigned to the Wynwood and Midtown Miami area during this time of year.

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Planting Peace painted this home that sits across the West Baptist Church in gay-pride colors in response to the church's antigay rhetoric

Planting Peace, the group best-known for trolling the Westboro Baptist Church bigots with its rainbow-colored Equality House in 2013, has come up with a similar campaign to go after an Arizona pastor whose antigay rhetoric from a sermon he delivered has gone viral.

Pastor Steven Anderson made headlines this week when he said that a solution to getting rid of AIDS and HIV would be to execute homosexuals.

"If you executed the homos like God recommends," Anderson said in his sermon, "you wouldn't have all this AIDS running rampant.

"We can have an AIDS-free world by Christmas," Anderson added.

In response, Planting Peace has started an online campaign in which it will send a lump of coal to Anderson for every donation it raises for AIDS/HIV awareness.

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The 2014 Miami Dolphins season is well underway! And while lots of other sites will be breaking down each game and listing reasons the Dolphins will or won't win while analyzing players, coaches, and match-ups against their respective opponent week to week, we won't.

Not us. Not here. Instead, we're focusing on why every week's opponent has the worst fan base in all of the NFL.

This week, the 7-5 Dolphins are set to play the Baltimore Ravens at SunLife Stadium.

Here are ten reasons their fans are the worst:

See also: Nine Reasons New York Jets Fans Are the Worst

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Frack me like you love me.

If you were the kind of person who liked to sniff out plots and nefarious designs in headlines, you might raise an eyebrow over the recent actions of Florida's utilities. Over the course of the summer and fall, Florida Power & Light and others basically blocked the state's private solar industry from having any say in future policy talks, then delivered a fatal blow to solar by cutting down the state's rebate program.

Now, reeling from this victory, Florida's biggest utility has announced it wants to get into the fracking business.

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Chaz Stevens

Last year, Deerfield Beach activist, blogger, and self-proclaimed "militant atheist" Chaz Stevens made headlines when he put up a Festivus pole in the Florida Capitol rotunda.

Now Florida officials have approved Stevens' request to put up the pole in the rotunda again this year.

Last year's pole -- which was an eight-foot-tall pole made of Pabst Plue Ribbon beer cans -- was inspired by Tallahassee officials allowing Christian groups to put up Nativity scenes and other holiday displays.

See also: Atheist's Festivus Pole in Florida Capitol: It's Up! (PHOTO)

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A SWAT team was called to the scene for a different matter.

A Delray Beach man who didn't have a lot of nice feelings toward police officers expressed himself during an inconvenient time -- a standoff with an armed suspect. But police didn't appreciate the distraction, so they arrested the opinionated man.

On November 28, Delray Beach Police were busy trying to apprehend another man, Willie Jones, for a totally different crime: firing a warning shot during an argument with his girlfriend, who was already outside his home. When police arrived, they tried to persuade Jones, 55, to come out of the house with his gun down and hands up, but he refused at first and allegedly told cops, "I'll shoot her if I have to!" Police were on alert and even called in a SWAT team.

But after several minutes, Jones came out of the house unarmed, walked toward officers shouting a variation of his previous words: "Shoot me if you have to!" But cops didn't have to pull any triggers because a police dog named "Ghost" ran up to Jones and "apprehended" him. He then had to be taken to the hospital for his injuries.

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Broward County has sent a letter to Uber and Lyft, warning the companies that their drivers are facing arrest and having their cars impounded. The letter outright tells them that they must "cease operations in Broward County'' until their drivers fall in line with county taxi laws and transportation regulations.

Uber, which has grown into a nationwide phenomenon and recently secured $1.2 billion in funding, has been a sore spot for local taxi cab drivers, who say the company plays by its own rules while poaching away customers. Lyft, which is also addressed in the letter, has accused Uber of taking away drivers.

Uber announced its arrival in Broward County in August.

See also: Uber Florida Bill Watered Down, but Company Launches New Campaign to Get It Approved

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Michele Eve Sandberg

Back in May of 2011, Rick Scott signed into law a bill requiring that Florida's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare recipients pass a drug test. That's right. Scott wanted poor people needing government assistance to first piss into a cup before begin granted said assistance.

This, in turn, led to the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida to call the bill an invasive, mandatory bodily-fluid search. A federal judge then agreed that the bill was an invasion of privacy and personal dignity to thousands and a violation of the Fourth Amendment. But undeterred by this legal blockage to getting poor people's pee, Scott appealed that decision.

On Wednesday, in a 54-page ruling, a federal appeals court shot the governor down once again, saying that there is no reason to believe "impoverished individuals are necessarily and inherently prone to drug use, or, for that matter, are more prone to drug use than the general population."

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Undercover Sunrise Police officers posing as drug dealers have been luring people down to South Florida with the promise of cocaine deals and have apprehended several suspects -- one of them, a New York Police officer who was once named "Officer of the Year" at his precinct.

According to reports, NYPD Officer Philip LeRoy, 28, came to Florida on Monday to purchase what he thought was 10 kilos of cocaine at a cheap price. He was arrested on Tuesday.

Leroy, along with two other men, were apprehended by Sunrise Police in the sting.

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Alex Broadwell

This is not what Miami Heat fans signed up for, and it's definitely not what the Miami Heat organization has been bragging about for months; right now, the Miami Heat are just not that good.

The Heat loss to the Atlanta Hawks 112-102 Wednesday night drops it to an even 9-9 on the season -- not exactly what Miami Heat fans envisioned when the season started. The loss to the Hawks stuck to the script that has been this 2014-15 Miami Heat campaign: bad-lazy defense, coupled with inconsistent-stagnant offense, a startling contrast to what Heat fans have grown accustomed to the past four years. It may be hard to accept what this team is right now, but the reality is the Miami Heat currently is a middling NBA team, one bad week from missing the playoffs when all is said and done.

The loss drops the Heat to third in the Southeast division, now three games back of the Washington Wizards.The Heat is now 4-6 at home, a remarkable contrast to what the team has done in its home building over the past few years. If you're looking for the low point in the post-LeBron era, it may have come last night, when the fans started the "Seven Nation Army" chant down ten with under a minute left.

Yup, these are the days.

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