Harrowing video shows gang members with automatic weapons open fire on rivals in Florida neighborhood

NY Post ^ | 5/19/24 | Isabel Keane

[Libloather]

Harrowing video captured the moment gang members with automatic weapons opened fire in a south Florida neighborhood in what police say was a targeted attack that left locals ducking for cover in the middle of the night.

Footage from a neighbor’s security camera shows a group with weapons standing on a residential street in Miami Garden just after midnight Wednesday beginning to shoot as a silver Nissan approaches.

At least three hooded figures can be seen crouching on the ground waiting to ambush the approaching car — then rapidly firing at the vehicle as it drives past.

Neighbors said they heard at least 50 rounds from high-powered weapons. The brazen shooting eventually forced the driver off the road, plowing down a fence in a neighbor’s front yard, according to NBC 6.

Video also shows three people stumbling out of the targeted car making a mad dash away from the scene.

As gunfire rattled through the neighborhood, residents scrambled to take cover inside their homes — some of which were left riddled with bullet holes.

[FLNittany]

Florida? Looks like Mogadishu.

Miami Gardens isn't far off. The whole town pretty much sucks. Don't ever go there - unless you have to drive through to get to the stadium.

[Mouton]

Napalm needed.

[Mouton]

Yeah you right. jungle would be too descriptive and probably considered racist!!

[Tired of Taxes]

"police say [it] was a targeted attack" . . . "the targeted car" . . . "a targeted shooting"

A targeted attack? They hit everything except their target.

[This_Dude]

At no point in the video could I see (or hear) any full auto fire. These guys are just pulling triggers as fast as they can. On a shot timer, I can get splits of about .17 seconds, sometimes faster if I’m having a good day.

Anyone who thinks this is automatic small arms fire doesn’t know what it looks/sounds like

[Keyhopper]

Use the turnpike and avoid the natives

[Candor7]

When I saw “automatic weapons” I did a double take.

There would have been a lot more dead people.

[hanamizu]

I wonder if they had a background check on those machine guns? /s

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And if they have their $200 tax stamp? The ATF has been known to gun people down for not having the stamp.

[AppyPappy]

By “harrowing”, they mean “usual”

[Zhang Fei]

[I know what automatic fire sounds like - and that wasn’t full auto. 15 months in Vietnam and lots of “meeting engagements” with 40 of us, fighting more than 40 of them.]

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In theory, having a lot of hardware backing obviates the fact that the enemy, while mostly light infantry, has more men on the ground. But it takes time for fire bases and close air support to get spooled up. In a meeting engagement, I bet that interval before fire support showing up is an extremely intense experience.

[Chainmail]

I was an artillery scout observer back then and I would get the grid and direction to the enemy in seconds and have 105mm artillery on them in 2-3 minutes.
CAS took slightly longer but if you had a stack waiting out there, we A4s and F4s inbound very quickly.
We had things quite refined when it came to locating and crushing the enemy if they were dumb enough to stick around.

[Zhang Fei]

[I was an artillery scout observer back then and I would get the grid and direction to the enemy in seconds and have 105mm artillery on them in 2-3 minutes.
CAS took slightly longer but if you had a stack waiting out there, we A4s and F4s inbound very quickly.
We had things quite refined when it came to locating and crushing the enemy if they were dumb enough to stick around.]

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That’s impressive. If only the commanders at Ia Drang had been as effective.

[Chainmail]

Ia Drang had about three things very different from what we experienced almost two years later:

1.The battle happened in 1965 when we were still at the beginning of our learning curve, so we learned to have supporting arms standing by within the sweet spots of our artillery fan if we went anywhere.

2. It was the army: their CAS comes from the USAF and we in the Marines have organic CAS that is faster to employ and crazy-brave-low and accurate. All our aviators train with us as infantrymen first, so they identify with us. (luckily for us, that goes for our medevac pilots too)

3.We learned early that the enemy preferred to get so close that we couldn't employ supporting arms - so we usually registered artillery targets in advance of moving into the heavy stuff where they could do that. Got the enemy's "minds right" as we moved in.

Didn't always work but we got really good at finding the enemy before they could ambush us while blocking them from getting away and pounding them or reacting to them with supporting arms to spoil their attack.

I was only a 21-year-old Lance Corporal back then, but I did well.