Miami Beach Police are breaking up nuisance spring breakers on the day the nuisance parties arrived in the city, covering violence and drug addiction.
Mayor Dan Gelber said thousands of spectators have overtaken the Miami Beach Entertainment District – and the city will now pursue police enforcement to reduce behavior, According to WTVJ.
The city is reportedly bringing in officials from nearby Miami to help manage the situation.
“If you have 50 or 100,000 people coming in there and just half of 1 percent are rowdy or drunk or at a high level where they need to be controlled, then it becomes a situation that is really chaotic and unbearable.” , “The jailer reportedly said Virtual City Commission meeting Wednesday
According to a South Florida NBC affiliate, about 150 parties were arrested over the weekend and one person was shot and killed on Monday.
“It has been felt many times that the city is just below the level of encirclement by the amount of people coming in,” Gelber said.
The mayor reprimanded the reckless revolutions, telling USA Today that “they have forgotten that there is an epidemic.”
Gelber claimed that the city was flooded with visitors disregarding security protocols, and worried that the masked mayhem could lead to the infection, just after they were afflicted.
“We’ve got a lot of people, a lot of people coming in with a desire to go wild, and we have the virus … It really remains a multifaceted crisis for us,” he told the paper.
But not everyone wants the party to stop.
Sergio Infantes, the chef and manager of Prana Cafe, told WTVJ that the Spring Breakers have greatly boosted their pandemic soul food restaurant.
“Now we’re really busy this season, so all the business, we’re hiring more people, because we need more workers for the business,” Infante said.
Tourists also told the station to feel safe on South Beach.
“I personally travel, I mean it’s a different environment, but I don’t think it’s unsafe,” said Ryan Brickhouse, a Texas Spring Break visitor.
The party had a different opinion from some of the city’s original residents.
Robin Andras immediately shut down the residential neighborhood during the period of public comment of the virtual meeting, allegedly to protect it from incidents occurring in the surrounding areas.
The South Florida Revelation is not limited to South Beach only.
A Fort Lauderdale hotspot said the state’s college students would not be served during the spring after citing epidemic prevention measures three times a day in November last week.
Last weekend, the US saw the highest volume of air travelers as college students descended on sandy beaches across the South for the celebration.
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