Miami Beach extends evening clock to deal with unstable springbreakers

Miami Beach extends evening clock to deal with unstable springbreakers

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“It feels in some ways like our city is a tinder right now,” Gelber told CNN ‘New Day.’ ‘It’s not just about not wearing masks and taking physical distance. There are also some people who come, come with bad intentions, so there is fighting and even shooting.

“If you have such a crowd, you can’t do it unless you have a huge police force, and all the mixture creates a lot of danger and a lot of concern.”

On Saturday night, police fired peppercorns in an attempt to break up crowds of mostly maskless parties on the city’s highway.

The Miami Beach City Commission met Sunday night and announced that an evening clock would remain at 8 p.m. for the city’s entertainment district. Thursdays to Sundays until at least March 30th.

Bridges and roads will be closed from 10:00 to 06:00 on those days. Locals, hotel guests and employees are exempt from these rules.

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City Manager Raul Aguila has the option to extend it until April 13 by another two weeks.

“The aim here is to contain the overwhelming crowd of visitors and the potential for violent disturbance and damage to property, whether intentional or unintentional,” Aguila said.

Gelber said he hopes an expansion will not be necessary, but ‘it is necessary now because it is unacceptable what we see and we can not allow our police, our residents and honestly also visitors to be in any kind of danger not. . “

The crowd grew so large that police from nearby agencies came in to provide assistance. According to Gelber, someone fired a shot into the air on Friday night.

The previous weekend, about 100 people were arrested and two officers injured after rioting crowds, police said.

Asked who he blames on the influx of springbreakers, Gelber said opening up Florida State Treasury Secretary Ron DeSantis’s does not help.

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The state has opened its doors to tourists after a year of closures and restrictions in the country over the coronavirus.

“Right now we are being asked to take all the people who are coming,” Gelber said on “New Day.” “The governor said everything is open, come down.

“The problem is that we are still in the midst of a pandemic. It is definitely not in our rearview mirror yet, and it is definitely not in my country, in my city. So it is a challenge. … “We have a kind of triple threat from too many crowds, too many people performing and a pandemic. And those three together create a very challenging moment.”

CNN’s Melissa Alonso, Theresa Waldrop and Hollie Silverman contributed to this report.

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