Posted on 05/27/2014 4:38:27 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) -- A large police presence took over Fort Lauderdale Beach Monday, shutting down A1A for nearly an hour after, investigators said, hundreds of people showed up to cause violence on Memorial Day.
Pictures sent by 7News viewers showed Fort Lauderdale Police gathering on A1A to disperse those who, officials said, specifically came to fight.
"It was a pretty rowdy crowd," said witness Jamar Artist. "Pretty much, like, people were bum-rushing each other, a lot of people were getting trampled on their way out, exits."
Police said the alleged brawlers gathered at Fort Lauderdale Park and began fighting, then moved to the area of Beach Place, where the mayhem continued. "The individuals that came here today are not individuals that were coming to visit the beach or to enjoy the long weekend," said Fort Lauderdale Police Detective DeAnna Greenlaw. "The individuals that came here today came to cause a problem."
Fort Lauderdale Police and the Broward Sheriff's Office's Field Force teams made dozens of arrests, for everything from fighting to drug possession. They also closed three bridges leading to the beach to help disperse the crowd.
A bus was damaged as a result of the day's events.
It is a Memorial Day that visitors who got caught in the middle of it all won't soon forget. "I just saw the crowd running, and it smelled like pepper spray," said a witness.
Investigators are trying to determine whether social media played a role in prompting the unruly crowd to meet at Fort Lauderdale Park.
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Amish on Spring Break.
Tea Party?
Snowbirds.
Well, we HAVE TO. Guess. This report tells us nothing. Nothing
Early bird syndrome?
We all know that those senior citizens are a rowdy bunch. They get a few shots of Fiber and its off to the races.
Poetic.
Robinson Crusoe and Friday?
The video does but we didn’t really need it.
Maybe it’s time to strictly ban the use of alcoholic beverages at beach resorts at certain times of the year.
No need.
In other news, nineteen people were shot (four dead, fifteen wounded) in New Orleans over the holiday weekend.
Yeah, like that will happen.
This weekend was urban beach weekend in Miami. Did they spread up the coast to Ft. Lauderdale?
I know we’re not supposed to be prejudiced, etc., but cops were putting in high security for urban beach weekend to nip any trouble in the bud.
The news report seems to go to great lengths to avoid describing the perpetrators, or even show photographs of them.
Those pesky French Canadians again?/S
By them telling nothing, it tells you everything you need to know as to who was doing what.
83 arrests so far during Urban Beach Week
Posted: May 24, 2014 4:49 PM EDT
Updated: May 24, 2014 4:55 PM EDT
Revelers at the 2014 Urban Beach Week hip-hop festival.
Revelers at the 2014 Urban Beach Week hip-hop festival.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach Police are reporting more than 80 arrests during the first two days of the annual Urban Beach Week hip-hop festival.
According to police, 83 people were arrested from Thursday evening through early Saturday. The majority of the arrests were for drug charges or other misdemeanors.
That’s down from 141 arrests during the same time period last year. Police reported 414 arrests for the entire Memorial Day weekend event last year. The vast majority of those arrests were for drugs or misdemeanor offenses.
http://www.wsvn.com/story/25605523/83-arrests-so-far-during-urban-beach-week
I hate to say it, but I’m beginning to see a common denominator.
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