US EditionSouth Florida university probes racist group chat tied to a local GOP official
Leaked chat included over 400 racial slurs and calls for violence, prompting Miami-Dade GOP removal proceedings and a criminal investigation at Florida International University.
- On March 5, 2026, reporting by the Miami Herald and The Floridian published leaked WhatsApp logs tied to Abel Alexander Carvajal, secretary of the Republican Party of Miami‑Dade County, revealing extensive racist and antisemitic slurs including references to Nazi Germany.
- Created last fall, the WhatsApp group for conservative students at Florida International University quickly included Nazi praise, violent fantasies about killing Black people, and slurs targeting women, Jewish and gay people.
- More than 400 instances of the N‑word appear in the leaked WhatsApp chat logs, with William Bejerano as the primary user posting calls for crucifying, beheading, and dissecting Black people alongside campus leaders Ian Valdes and Dariel Gonzalez.
- The Miami‑Dade Republican Party board voted to request Carvajal’s resignation and opened removal proceedings, while Florida International University and local law enforcement investigate the alleged chat messages as part of a criminal inquiry.
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Florida politicians condemn Miami Young Republican leaders for antisemitic group chat
Florida GOP leaders, candidates and a university president are denouncing a group chat in which local Young Republican leaders made numerous antisemitic and racist remarks. Some are calling for its orchestrator to be removed from his position in the local Republican Party. But a prominent Jewish Republican in Florida, Rep. Randy Fine, responded to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency request for comment without condemning the group chat. “Given your sto…
Florida University Investigates Racist Slurs in GOP Group Chat
Florida International University has launched an investigation into a group chat linked to a local GOP official that included violent racist slurs, antisemitic comments and misogynistic language Florida University Investigates Racist Slurs in GOP Group Chat.
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South Florida university probes racist group chat tied to a local GOP official
Florida International University has launched an investigation into a group chat linked to a local GOP official that included violent racist slurs, antisemitic comments and misogynistic language.
Miami-Dade County Republican Party’s WhatsApp group under criminal investigation after leak alleges racist violent posts
Detectives with the Florida International University Police Department were working with local, state, and federal law enforcement to investigate alleged threats of violence in a Miami-Dade County Republican Party’s WhatsApp group.
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Miami Herald‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”
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