Pandemic Management: Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew

[enhanced_deficit]

Bit surprising development considering Governaor DeSantis' stance on covid restrictions. SWAT teams used to enforce curfew.
MSM sourced but appears to be non-fakenews:

1 day ago


Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew

The city has been criticized for its enforcement of the curfew in South Beach over the weekend, when the police used pepper balls to try to disperse crowds.

Police Break Up Spring Break Crowds in Miami Beach

The police fired pepper balls to disperse crowds after an 8 p.m. curfew went into effect on Saturday. Local Miami officials said people had flocked to the city because of its relatively few coronavirus restrictions.

[yelling; sirens]
0:36 Police Break Up Spring Break Crowds in Miami Beach

The police fired pepper balls to disperse crowds after an 8 p.m. curfew went into effect on Saturday. Local Miami officials said people had flocked to the city because of its relatively few coronavirus restrictions.

One day after the spring break oasis of South Beach descended into chaos, with the police struggling to control overwhelming crowds and making scores of arrests, officials in Miami Beach decided on Sunday to extend an emergency curfew for up to three weeks.
The officials there went so far as to approve closing the famed Ocean Drive to all vehicular and pedestrian traffic from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. — the hours of the curfew — for four nights a week through April 12. Residents, hotel guests and employees of local businesses are exempt from the closure.
The strip, frequented by celebrities and tourists alike, was the scene of a much-criticized skirmish on Saturday night between sometimes unruly revelers who ignored social-distancing and mask guidelines aimed at curbing the coronavirus, and police officers who used pepper balls to disperse a large crowd just hours after the curfew was introduced.
The restrictions were a stunning concession to the city’s inability to control unwieldy crowds of revelers whom the city and the state of Florida have aggressively courted amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic.

“I believe it’s a lot of pent-up demand from the pandemic and people wanting to get out,” David Richardson, a member of the Miami Beach City Commission, said on Sunday. “And our state has been publicly advertised as being open, so that’s contributing to the issue.”

nytimes.com/2021/03/21/us/miami-beach-curfew-spring-break.html





Related

6 hours ago
Miami Beach police have seized more than 100 guns this spring break season, officials say
foxnews.com/us/miami-beach-police-have-seized-more-than-100-guns-this-spring-break-season-officials-say


3 hours ago
Spring breaker woman drugged, raped and found dead in Miami Beach hotel ID’d
foxnews.com/us/spring-breaker-woman-drugged-raped-and-found-dead-in-miami-beach-hotel-idd

 

[Contumacious]

Bit surprising development considering Governaor DeSantis' stance on covid restrictions. SWAT teams used to enforce curfew.
MSM sourced but appears to be non-fakenews:

1 day ago


Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew

The city has been criticized for its enforcement of the curfew in South Beach over the weekend, when the police used pepper balls to try to disperse crowds.

Police Break Up Spring Break Crowds in Miami Beach

The police fired pepper balls to disperse crowds after an 8 p.m. curfew went into effect on Saturday. Local Miami officials said people had flocked to the city because of its relatively few coronavirus restrictions.

[yelling; sirens]
0:36 Police Break Up Spring Break Crowds in Miami Beach

The police fired pepper balls to disperse crowds after an 8 p.m. curfew went into effect on Saturday. Local Miami officials said people had flocked to the city because of its relatively few coronavirus restrictions.

One day after the spring break oasis of South Beach descended into chaos, with the police struggling to control overwhelming crowds and making scores of arrests, officials in Miami Beach decided on Sunday to extend an emergency curfew for up to three weeks.
The officials there went so far as to approve closing the famed Ocean Drive to all vehicular and pedestrian traffic from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. — the hours of the curfew — for four nights a week through April 12. Residents, hotel guests and employees of local businesses are exempt from the closure.
The strip, frequented by celebrities and tourists alike, was the scene of a much-criticized skirmish on Saturday night between sometimes unruly revelers who ignored social-distancing and mask guidelines aimed at curbing the coronavirus, and police officers who used pepper balls to disperse a large crowd just hours after the curfew was introduced.
The restrictions were a stunning concession to the city’s inability to control unwieldy crowds of revelers whom the city and the state of Florida have aggressively courted amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic.

“I believe it’s a lot of pent-up demand from the pandemic and people wanting to get out,” David Richardson, a member of the Miami Beach City Commission, said on Sunday. “And our state has been publicly advertised as being open, so that’s contributing to the issue.”

nytimes.com/2021/03/21/us/miami-beach-curfew-spring-break.html





Related

6 hours ago
Miami Beach police have seized more than 100 guns this spring break season, officials say
foxnews.com/us/miami-beach-police-have-seized-more-than-100-guns-this-spring-break-season-officials-say


3 hours ago
Spring breaker woman drugged, raped and found dead in Miami Beach hotel ID’d
foxnews.com/us/spring-breaker-woman-drugged-raped-and-found-dead-in-miami-beach-hotel-idd

Mayor Dan Gelber is a stupid mother f u c k e r

The miserable POS has not and can not show that

1- SARS CoV-2 can survive in temperatures higher that 75 degrees farenheit

2- that the virus can survive in an environment containing sea water

3- that individuals who are highly intoxicated with alcohol can infect, or be infected with SARS CoV-2 .

Let me remind you that I an assuming that SARS CoV-2 is the actual pathogen . The CDC has never been able to scientifically show that SARS CoV-2 can infect human tissue. Nor has the CDC been able to ISOLATE SARS CoV-2 so the present PCR tests are useless.



.



.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

As far as I can tell, these restrictions have nothing to do with COVID, and more to do with destructive riots and fights in the streets.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://www.twitter.com/HaitianBhaddie/status/1373973964729507846

 

[Contumacious]

As far as I can tell, these restrictions have nothing to do with COVID, and more to do with destructive riots and fights in the streets.

That is the official narrative.

But I suspect that the covid19 "pandemic" and the race of the crowd played a role into the curfew.


It is not fair for Gov DeSantis to declare that Florida and Miami Beach were now opened - but when tourists , from Michigan and other jurisdictions which have been experiencing stupid lockdowns , arrive they are not welcomed.

I lived in Miami and worked at the Miami Beach Convention Center , for over twenty years - and the powers-that-be loved big money spending crowds

What happened?!?!?!?!?!?


Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Anti Globalist]

All rebels should break any emergency curfew.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

As far as I can tell, these restrictions have nothing to do with COVID, and more to do with destructive riots and fights in the streets.

That is the official narrative.

But I suspect that the covid19 "pandemic" and the race of the crowd played a role into the curfew.


It is not fair for Gov DeSantis to declare that Florida and Miami Beach were now opened - but when tourists , from Michigan and other jurisdictions which have been experiencing stupid lockdowns , arrive they are not welcomed.

I lived in Miami and worked at the Miami Beach Convention Center , for over twenty years - and the powers-that-be loved big money spending crowds

What happened?!?!?!?!?!?


Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Multiple factors being cited in these reports, earlier photos/reporting headlined on Drudge highlighted the pandemic/maskless partying angle.
From this link:

KELLI KENNEDYMon, March 22, 2021, 9:08 AM·4 min read

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A party-ending curfew imposed after fights, gunfire, property destruction and dangerous stampedes broke out among huge crowds of people in Miami Beach could extend through the end of spring break.

Miami Beach commissioners voted unanimously Sunday to empower the city manager to extend the curfew in the South Beach entertainment district until at least April 12, effectively shutting down a spring break hot spot in one of the few states fully open during the pandemic.

SWAT teams and law enforcement officers from at least four other agencies sought to contain the raucous crowds, but confrontations continued for days before Miami Beach officials enacted the curfew, which forces Ocean Drive restaurants to stop outdoor seating entirely.


City Manager Raul Aguila said many people from other states were coming in “to engage in lawlessness and an ‘anything goes’ party attitude." He said most weren't patronizing the businesses that badly need tourism dollars, and instead merely congregating by the thousands in the street.

Miami Beach Police said more than 1,000 people have been arrested this spring break season, with about 80 guns seized. Police Chief Richard Clements said the trouble intensified on Monday, when an unusually large crowd blocked Ocean Drive “and basically had an impromptu street party.” By Thursday, fights were breaking out, setting off dangerous stampedes of people fleeing for safety.
The partying was out of control by Friday night, he said — one restaurant was “turned upside down” in a melee, its “chairs were used as weapons,” and broken glass covered the floor. The iconic Clevelander South Beach bar next door had to suspend all food and beverage operations. Gunshots were fired, and a young woman was hospitalized with a badly cut leg, police said.

“How many more things are we going to allow to occur before we step in?” Clements said during Sunday's meeting. He defended the city’s curfew, which also closes three causeways leading to South Beach in an effort to keep all but residents and employees from driving onto the island from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Thursday through Sunday. “I think this was the right decision,” the chief said.
The crowd was defiant but mostly nonviolent on Saturday night, refusing to submit to the curfew that had only been enacted four hours earlier, when officers in bulletproof vests released pepper spray balls to break up the party. A crowd showed up again Sunday night, defying the curfew yet again.
The situation ignited racial tensions. Some white residents referred to the crowd of predominantly Black tourists as “animals” or “thugs” on social media.
“We have to realize that we are definitely fighting an undertone of racism," DeAnne Connolly Graham, a member of Miami Beach’s Black Affairs Advisory Committee, told the Miami Herald.

But Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber rejected the claim that anyone has been targeted for their race.
“When hundreds of people are running through the streets panicked, you realize that’s not something that a police force can control,” he said during the commission meeting Sunday.
Very few people in the crowds were covering their faces with masks, as is required by a Miami Beach ordinance imposed in hopes of containing the spread of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 33,000 people in Florida so far.

Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber Blames Gov. Ron DeSantis For Spring Break Chaos

By Daniel Villarreal On 3/24/21

Democratic Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber has blamed Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for contributing to the largely unmasked and non-socially distanced spring break crowds that descended last week on the oceanside vacation spot. Their presence resulted in over 100 arrests.

In a Tuesday interview with Fox Business anchor Neil Cavuto, Gelber said that DeSantis reopened the state's business and vacation spots without clearly stating the COVID-19 prevention measures that visitors should observe.

"I don't think we've done a great job statewide," Gelber told Cavuto. "What I think we didn't do well enough was really preach to people with one voice that they need to wear a mask and be smart.... [Visitors] were not getting that here. They were getting a lot of mixed messages, and I think that hurt us."

newsweek.com/miami-beach-mayor-dan-gelber-blames-gov-ron-desantis-spring-break-chaos-1578289