The City of Miami Beach imposed an emergency 8 p.m. curfew after things got out of hand over the weekend. Early reports claimed the curfew was imposed because of COVID-19, but videos made it pretty clear that’s not why police were called out to send people back to their hotels.
Now police are being accused of racism:
Miami Beach authorities accused of racism as they extend curfew and state of emergency that black community say targets them https://t.co/mow5q2hvso
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) March 22, 2021
Authorities in Miami Beach are facing allegations of racism after extending an 8pm curfew and state of emergency in response to largely black crowds of spring break revelers, who officials say are ‘overwhelming’ the city with unruly behavior.
Miami Beach police have arrested more than 1,000 people in the past month, and faced criticism after using pepper balls and sounds cannons on the crowd on Saturday night, which black leaders called ‘unnecessary force’.
‘I was very disappointed,’ Stephen Hunter Johnson, chairman of Miami-Dade’s Black Affairs Advisory Committee, told the Miami Herald. ‘I think when they’re young black people [on South Beach], the response is, ‘Oh my God, we have to do something.’
The Washington Post has picked up on the story, with an interesting headline:
Curfew causes Black Americans to wonder if they can still have fun in Miami Beach https://t.co/tC1kMRWDIZ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 24, 2021
Here’s “fun” in Miami Beach … until police roll up on the ATVs.
Minutes into the curfew this happened. Ocean Drive has been cleared out. @wsvn #springbreak2021 pic.twitter.com/OlL6afYJOn
— Sheldon Fox-7 News (@fox_sheldon) March 22, 2021
Ron DeSantis is a mass murderer for letting people gather at bars and on the beach. Also he's a racist for not letting people gather on the beach. pic.twitter.com/WMijVFcmgx
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 24, 2021
— CMMorgan #NeverAgain (@SoCallls) March 24, 2021
— ACHILLES ?? (@AKILLIZ1) March 24, 2021
— Stoney ☮️✌️❤️ (@K_Oddie) March 24, 2021
Weird headline
— C reel (@creel625) March 24, 2021
Congrats on that awful headline
— I am not a cat (sucker!) (@FoolWhata) March 24, 2021
https://twitter.com/Swearuh/status/1374749828731797514
Here for the ratio. 'nuff said.
— OK_Steve_OK (@SteveJacob) March 24, 2021
And this kind of absurdity is why I don't want to pay to subscribe to your paper. Do better.
— Platonista (@Platonista1) March 24, 2021
I can't access the story because it's a pay site, but I thought the curfew was for everyone? I saw more than just black Americans in the videos.
— B. Edward Goolsby (@goolsbyjazz) March 24, 2021
Does the curfew applies ONLY to black americans ? Otherwise WTF with the headline ?
— Mr. Click – ahora Danes (@LaDerechaRifa) March 24, 2021
“Fun”
— From Where I Sit (@infomorsels) March 24, 2021
WaPo looks like you're getting ratioed by both left and right. Do better. ?
— Auntie Mame's bracelets (@mgn53) March 24, 2021
This is the kinda news we've all been craving
— Prishpreed (@d_prishpreed) March 24, 2021
Have you been hacked?
— LanikaiDeb (@LanikaiDeb) March 24, 2021
What a stupid, stupid headline ?
— Alexastrand (@Strandra74) March 24, 2021
Bad behavior is not racial, and yes I’m a black woman.
— Stephanie Brown (@Stephanieb36) March 24, 2021
Poor black Americans…the curfew is only for them ?
— Jack Rafters (@Charles24285276) March 24, 2021
You really never stop do you
— Woke Supremacist (@wokesupremacist) March 24, 2021
Wow this post is flat out racist. Wow. So no white people are in Miami partying.
— Christian Wilson (@Hi_ItsChristian) March 24, 2021
Here we go again with the race card. People are expected to behave whether they are black, white, pink or purple. There are no exceptions.
— Ellie (@yulebecool) March 24, 2021
"Arriola said Miami Beach needs to do a better job embracing its Black tourists and making them feel welcome."
So fights, rapes, robberies and murders should be organized events sponsored by the city?
— homeforhistory (@homeforhistory) March 24, 2021
There are so many race problems in the US
Reaction to the spring break nonsense in Florida is NOT one of them
— For Mom and Dad (@LovetheZone) March 24, 2021
— Christopher Rodriguez (@CDotRodriguez) March 24, 2021
Them beating the hell out of each other in the middle of the streets is fun?
— Seth Chambers (@CrystalSeth) March 24, 2021
Journalisiming
— Noah (@noah_s57) March 24, 2021
Whenever articles like this pop up you know someone is BORED
— FiendFix ? (@FiendFix) March 24, 2021
Democracy Dies in the Mad Libs Headlines
— Brother Seamus (@WaynePelota) March 24, 2021
We live in a clown world
— lincoln james (@lincoln89871402) March 24, 2021
Related:
WATCH: Police in South Beach user pepper balls to disperse Spring Breakers defying new curfew order https://t.co/KM7RYJ1fsZ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 21, 2021
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