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Cellphone videos have caught cops in paramilitary gear shooting pepper ball guns at throngs of black spring breakers, a group of officers tackling other young blacks and one cop responding to a kick from a female visitor by appearing to choke her. A dozen officers, in turn, have said they had been injured — one with a broken nose, another a fractured hip.
The growing crisis over coronavirus has quickly eclipsed the latest allegations of racism by Miami Beach’s police force. This weekend, following a national call to curtail large crowds, the city announced a sweeping crackdown — setting curfews on restaurants and bars and closing much of the beach.