Posted on 05/02/2023 4:06:35 PM PDT by grundle
Black drivers received almost 37% of the tickets, despite Black people making up only about 16% of Florida's driving-eligible population.
'Stop being racists,' says man ticketed 5 times for loud music
Carven Exantus, 34, of Miami has been ticketed five times for loud music – at $129 each – by police in Miami Beach, including twice the same day 90 minutes apart in October. Exantus, who is Black, beat four of the tickets in court, so far. His most recent ticket was the afternoon of March 9 along Ocean Drive. He has pleaded not guilty.
He urged police and the Legislature to suspend enforcing the law: “Stop being racists, simple. Something is disproportionately affecting one group, and it's designed to be that way. If it's walking and quacking like a duck, it's a duck. It's racist.”
Exantus was ticketed driving road-legal golf carts with license plates and headlights for his business, Crew Cart Services LLC of Miami. It offers tours, pick-ups and drop-offs for tourists and locals along the beach district. The carts, with stereos, are open-air with no doors and no windows.
“We're getting harrassed to the point where I can't even conduct business,” Exantus said
His business partner, Fred Laurice Johnson, 33, has been ticketed four times in Miami Beach for loud music and contested all the $129 tickets. On Friday, he beat a ticket in court that accused him of playing Maroon 5 too loudly on Dec. 1. The judge dismissed it when the officer didn't show up to testify. Johnson, who is Black, and Exantus said they have never seen police use a sound-measuring device before writing tickets for loud music.
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“despite Black people making up only about 16% of Florida’s driving-eligible population”
But much more than 16% of Florida’s loud-stereo-blaring population.
Yeah, no cop ever ticketed me for turning up the volume when the solo for Stranglehold starts either.
Don’t know why so many have to be loud, rowdy and obnoxious.
Is it because they ark lonely,insecure attention whores or just weak minded self-centered and greedy children?
No manners or conscience.
Um, I hate to be the racist here but I live in a pretty racially diverse neighborhood and the only people with their music turned up so loud that I can hear their bumpers rattle are our friends of the African American persuasion.
...or not hear an ambulance.
True.
> "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey at high volume gets mostly thumbs up...
Not from me. I find it just as annoying as rap, and worse, unlike rap, that d@mn song gets stuck in my head for hours. And mind you, I'm a rock musician, been playing electric guitar for the past 61 years (no that's not a typo), I'm currently in three active bands, two of which get loud. I just can't stand Journey any more than I can stand rap, which is not much.
> That's the way it is.
Yep.
Their sentencing needs to include being locked in a room with Yoko Ono’s singing on full blast - ten minutes for the first offense and doubling for every successive offense.
Woo Woo... The whistles go WOOOO -
Bubb Rubb.
In my experience blacks make their hoopties as obnoxious as possibly with exhaust and sub woofers.
So what? They tend to blast their music so the tickets are probably deserved.
So what? They tend to blast their music so the tickets are probably deserved.
Since the time big amplifiers could be built without transformers (low cost), it’s amazing how many people think that others will enjoy their “taste” in music.
Only THREE times? If impartial, it would be TEN times!
Exactly. The black teens make their rides loud so they get more tickets. Watch the short vid post exposing a ridiculous fad... Woo Woo
The title was written by a mathematically clueless person. In order for tickets to be three times more likely for black people blastinv loud music, a number of people blasting loud music have to identified, and then randomly selected, and then the ticketing rates for black vs. non-black among then has to be compared. If, indeed, black people in that group get ticketed at three times the per-person rate of the others in that group, then the title would be accurate. But that wasn’t what was done.
Turn down the music. Problem solved.
WHAT!!??
75 posts on this subject and no one has posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqyegIAGlmk
Can’t speak for Florida, but around here cars driving around with insanely loud music are easily 10-1 driven by African Americans over any other group.
Low-class whites and hispanics, of which there are plenty around these parts, do the same thing.
Sound powered cars. I watch em thump down the street.
Concur with minority ownership of this issue.
A possible defense is, he could reasonably claim that what he was listening to wasn’t really music.
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