Re: Miami Beach Spring Break 2021:Out of Control

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@gertrudecloset wrote:

https://www.aol.com/news/miami-beach-extends-curfew-control-222900943.html

City commissioners voted to keep an 8 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew in their entertainment district, with an exception for restaurant delivery services, as well as restrictions on causeways beginning at 10 p.m.
The rules, which began Saturday in a 72-hour state-of-emergency order, will remain in effect through the end of the month, with the possibility that they could be extended to mid-April.

The city has made over 1,000 arrests since February, about half of them involving out-of-state-residents, and the influx has led to increasing crowd-control issues, Miami Beach officials said Sunday.

The types of crowds that have descended on the popular South Florida destination are not made up of the regular college-age students officials are used to, Mayor Dan Gelber and City Manager Raul Aguila said. "I don't see this is a sort of spring break thing, because I don't think these are college kids," Gelber said. "I think it changes the nature of what we're in front of here. I think there are very few places that are open as we have been and as our state has been open. And there are even precious fewer places as beautiful as ours that is open."
Aguila said Florida's lax Covid-19 rules have encouraged people from outside the state to visit.

"This is a spring break like no other," Aguila said.

Gov. Ron DeSantis agreed to help provide Florida Highway Patrol reinforcement and resources from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for the city, Gelber said.

In recent weeks, officers have taken over streets and sidewalks, Police Chief Richard Clements said, and officers have seized an "alarming" number of firearms.

"We've let our officers know that the frequency by which they're encountering these weapons on the street are probably greater than we've seen in five years," Clements said.

Officers have struggled to rein in large groups of people who have caused fights and stampedes.

If they believe people arriving are not spring break crowds, perhaps official school identifications should be requested.

Okay .... This has been all over the internet .... I don't see how anyone could miss all the coverage.

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

@rms1954 but according to the original post, the problem isn’t the usual college kids

but it if were, I would still want them to show up minus the guns and to show they are worth those expensive college educations they are supposedly working toward