Prosecutors want Miami mom jailed again, citing Facebook posts about police officer who shot her son

“You killed my son,” Hollis said to Pino repeatedly in Spanish, according to body camera footage.

“Maybe if you did a better job, there wouldn’t be a problem,” Pino is captured saying in response.

After that encounter, she was charged with aggravated stalking, resisting arrest and trespassing. She then shifted to social media, sharing photos she obtained from Pino’s accounts of him and his family. On Nov. 7, 2022, Pino was granted a one-year injunction, ordering Hollis to stay away from him and cease posting his pictures on social media.

The stalking charge was reduced to a misdemeanor, and the trespass charge was dropped. But Hollis still faces a maximum of nearly two years imprisonment on the remaining charges.

At a bond hearing on April 19, Assistant State Attorney Alecsander Kohn and defense attorneys sparred over who was the victim in the tragedy surrounding Richard Hollis’ death and his mother’s subsequent arrest.

Kohn said prosecutors and police were strongly opposed to releasing Hollis on her promise to appear in court for trial — the option most favored by her attorneys. “I reached out to all respective parties being the victim in this case — Officer Pino, as well as the (Police Benevolent Association) who is the voice of law enforcement.

“After conversations with both of them, there are grave concerns with respect to releasing Ms. Hollis on her own recognizance,” he said. The PBA is a union that represents Miami-Dade officers.

Soler responded that Hollis was the “real victim” in the case, telling the judge that Pino had “perjured himself” when he testified about the Aug. 22, 2022 confrontation — an encounter that stands as the basis for the stalking charge. Soler said her office had asked prosecutors “over and over and over again” — to no avail — to review body-worn camera footage of the encounter to determine for themselves who was telling the truth about the threat the grieving mother posed.

“It is unjust for Ms. Hollis to be spending one more second in jail for something ... that was her every single right to do.”

Steadman Stahl, the PBA’s president, said Friday night it was “unfortunate that a life was taken, and no officer relishes that or wants that to happen.” But, he added, the shooting “was investigated and (Pino) was cleared of any wrongdoing.”

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