Miami police 'under siege' by spring breakers as Fort Lauderdale beckons crowds despite Uber assault
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As Miami Beach police bring in reinforcements to respond to rowdy spring breakers who clashed with officers over the weekend, Fort Lauderdale has comparatively reported few incidents amid large crowds of college students on the beach or elsewhere, and its mayor is welcoming their patronage at businesses looking to recover a year since the coronavirus pandemic’s onset.
"It has felt at times like this city is under a level of siege simply from the volume of people that are coming," Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said during a virtual press conference Wednesday. "If you have fifty or a hundred thousand people coming there and just half of one percent are rowdy or drunk or high to the point where they need to be controlled, it becomes a situation which is truly chaotic and unmanageable," he said, according to WTVJ, explaining that there are too many people "coming with a desire to go wild" despite the coronavirus, which poses "a multifaceted peril for us."More Related News