Officials in Miami Beach, Florida, have declared a state emergency and will impose a curfew following days of violence in the popular beachside town to deal with rowdy spring breakers after two shootings that injured five people over the weekend.
"Our city is well past its endpoint," Mayor Dan Gelber said during a Monday news conference."What we're watching and what we're feeling and what we're observing is simply unacceptable at every level."
The curfew goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday and will last until 6 a.m. on March 28. The same rules will apply for the following weekend. A police officer on an ATV patrols in Miami Beach, Florida's famed South Beach on Monday.Miami Beach police officers enforce an 8 p.m. curfew imposed by local authorities on spring break festivities, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Miami Beach, Florida on March 26, 2021.
To prepare, the city is recruiting police officers from across Florida following large riots that broke out last year. "This isn't your father's or mother's spring break. This is something wholly different," Gelber said."We don't ask for spring break. We don't promote it. We don't encourage it. We endure it."Early Monday, two women were hospitalized after a shooting around 1 a.m. on Ocean Drive. On Sunday morning, three people were injured during a shooting as well,In addition, over the past four weeks, authorities have seized 100 guns, the news outlet said.
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