Black Leaders Call Out Miami Swat Tactics While Handling Black Tourists

Yes, we are still in the middle of a pandemic, but if you looked at what is going on in Miami, Florida, you would think everything was back to normal. Over the weekend, Miami Beach declared a state of emergency due to the high number of young adults who have flocked to the vacation destination, South Beach, despite being warned not to becuase of you know… COVID-19. An 8 pm- 6 am curfew was instituted, but nobody seemed to care. Videos of large crowds of people, most of them maskless, partying, drinking, dancing, and in some cases fighting while breaking curfew on both nights since it was imposed hit Twitter timelines causing medical officials to clutch their pearls, fearing we could endure another spike of COVID-19 cases.

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Miami law enforcement was not playing with them either, and Swat was called to disperse the crowds using any means available. The Miami Police’s use of Swat tactics like pepper spray balls and sound cannons to disperse the mainly Black and Brown crowds have come under scrutiny from Black leaders calling the enforcement of the curfew “unacceptable.” “I was very disappointed,” Stephen Hunter Johnson, chairman of Miami-Dade’s Black Affairs Advisory Committee, said on Sunday morning (Mar.21).  “I think when they’re young Black people [on South Beach], the response is, ‘Oh my God, we have to do something.’” window.addEventListener(‘interaction’, function () { setTimeout(function () { var s = document.createElement(‘script’), el = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[ 0 ]; s.async = true; s.src = ‘https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’; el.parentNode.insertBefore(s, el); }, 1000) });

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Welp.

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https://twitter.com/realDiaperDonJr/status/1373597661761310720?s=20

We agree.

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https://twitter.com/RN_Destiny/status/1373679207360909314?s=20

Hoodlums? Really? 

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https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1373740031844704258?s=20

Saying the quiet part very loudly here. 

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https://twitter.com/AaronParnas/status/1373659542408544268?s=20

Facts

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https://twitter.com/Dereks_Lane/status/1373322286523158530?s=20

A local sharing the facts. 

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Another Miami native reporting in. 

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https://twitter.com/NikeHeadKJ/status/1373374447873355785?s=20

COVIDIOTS!

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Fair comparison. 

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It’s definitely not. 

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FLORIDA IS A CRAZY PLACE.

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https://twitter.com/Marcotge/status/1373648036556107776?s=20

Accurate.

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https://twitter.com/Jonaniswin/status/1373806335393927170?s=20

All of us right now. 

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Yikes.

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LOL