Miami Beach introduces weekend curfew after spring break violence - CNN
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Via: john-russell • 2 years ago • 6 commentsBy: Jamiel Lynch and Susannah Cullinane (CNN)
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(CNN)Miami Beach is implementing a midnight curfew after violence that erupted amid a busy spring break weekend put the city "well past its end point," according to the mayor.
The curfew will begin at 12:01 a.m. Thursday and last until 6 a.m. Monday, Mayor Dan Gelber announced during a news conference Monday afternoon. City Manager Alina Hudak said she would ask for the same curfew the following weekend. A public emergency order, signed by Hudak, will go to the city commission for approval in a special meeting Tuesday, she said. At least 8 people killed, 60 hurt in weekend mass shootings The curfew and emergency order come after five people were injured in two shootings on Miami Beach's iconic Ocean Drive over the weekend. "If you want to see what a very frustrated and angry mayor looks like, you're looking at him," Gelber said during the news conference. Read More "Our city is well past its end point. What we are watching and what we are feeling and what we are observing is simply unacceptable at every level," he said. A Miami Beach Live concert set for Saturday evening will be rescheduled, Hudak said. Gelber noted 371 officers were tasked with patrolling the crowds over the weekend. Since the Spring Break season began in February, nine officers have been injured in some capacity, police Chief Richard Clements said. Four of those injuries happened over the weekend, the Miami Beach Fraternal Order of Police said in a Twitter post Sunday. "Officers are EXHAUSTED. The party needs to end. City officials must take immediate and firm action to ensure the safety of officers and residents," the tweet said. Miami Beach also introduced a curfew last year after officials said crowds of spring breakers brought chaos to the city. A police officer on an ATV patrols in Miami Beach's famed South Beach, Monday.
Shootings leave 5 injured
The announcement of the curfew came hours after two people were injured in a shooting in Miami Beach early Monday. Officers were patrolling the 700 block of Ocean Drive around 1 a.m. when they heard gunfire and located two women who had been injured, police said in a press release. Both were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. Officers detained two people at the scene and recovered firearms. One of those people has since been released and officers are still searching for the primary shooting suspect, the release said. 3 people injured in Ocean Drive shooting The incident followed another shooting on Ocean Drive early Sunday morning that left three people injured, according to police. "On Sunday at 12:15 a.m., officers responded to a shooting along the 800 block of Ocean Drive," Miami Beach Police Department spokesperson Ernesto Rodriguez said. Two people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and investigators later learned a third person arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound, also non-life-threatening, Rodriguez said. "Detectives are speaking with several individuals to determine what transpired in the moments leading up to the shooting," he added. Mitch Novick, who owns the Sherbrooke Hotel in South Beach, shot footage of the Miami Beach crowd reacting to the gunfire. In the video, gunshots can be heard as people run for safety while a large number of police officers rush towards the shooting. Novick sheltered behind a white vehicle and kept filming. "You could see many officers heroically running towards the what was the sound of the gunfire," Novick told CNN. "And then they came back and surrounded, I don't know if it was a person or a vehicle, but you can see their guns drawn." Novick also shared security footage from his hotel in which people can be heard screaming amidst the sound of gunfire. Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of the Miami Beach city manager. It is Alina Hudak.
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Back in 1960 when most of America was first introduced to "spring break" in the movie Where The Boys Are no one whipped out a gun and shot into a crowd. We didnt have a gun culture like we do today.
Raging hormones, alcohol, no supervision, and firearms is a recipe for disaster.
A shooting happened, then a shooting happened, then shooting happened, then someone walked into a hospital shot...
Butt, people need more guns freely.
With states passing everyone can conceal carry, things are only going to get worse.
I was starting to think about creating a group on NT called "Report on Daily Shootings and Gun Deaths in the USA", in which I would provide an article every day of the latest daily American gun violence - I only need to read the daily Microsoft Bing news, which I do, to get an ample supply of material. However, I decided against it because nobody likes to have to, as Jack Nicholson said in A Few Good Men, "handle the truth" and I get my face slapped often enough on NT for having the nerve to tell the other side of stories that others post. Elsewhere I suggested that Perrie might as well change the NT motto to "Speak Your Mind, Unless You're Buzz of the Orient".
Good grief! How hard is it to go on vacation and not be raving, destructive, murderous lunatic?