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  • First Miami Beach police officer killed in the line of duty Today in Florida History March 19, 1928 – Miami Beach Police Officer David Cecil Bearden was fatally shot by suspected car thieves on this date, making him the first Miami Beach police officer killed in the line of duty. Bearden was a native of Alabama and moved to Miami Beach in the early 1920s and became a police officer in 1926. On March 18 th 1928, three men stole a car from Miami Beach and drove to Fort Lauderdale, then...Read more
 

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