Cops Trying To Clear Black Spring Breakers Out Of Miami Public Places Leads To Aggression, Racial Tensions

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.