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Spring break is historic in Florida and the city could have planned better.”Īlthough Donall says this isn’t the usual spring break crowd he doesn’t think the demographics of the partiers is to blame (for example, he argues, “sexuality does not define a person’s behavior”).
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“This could have been prevented if there was anticipatory planning and utilizing everyone in a way that could have helped prevent much of the un-welcomed behaviors. “I believe the city has failed to take a moment to observe the situation,” Donall says. Miami Beach police have reportedly made hundreds of arrests. Miami Hearld reported that some cops arrived with SWAT, in military style vehicles and sporting automatic rifles, while others lobbed pepper spray balls into nonviolent crowds on Ocean Drive to force them to disperse.
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Still, Donall says, he doesn’t support the actions taken by Miami over the weekend, when the city declared a state of emergency, and announced an 8 PM to 6 AM curfew (with only 4 hours’ notice) and then sent in police. “It looks like a culmination of COVID-quarantine overload and a stimulus spending spree.” “The crowds we’re seeing are not our normal spring breakers,” he tells Out Traveler. Thomas Donall wasn’t surprised when college students started flooding into Miami, after all, Florida’s southern beach cities are some of the most popular destinations for the 1.5 million spring breakers that hit the road each year (according to Travel Market Report).īut when the legendary South Beach’s drag bar, which just celebrated its 33 rd anniversary in February, began to see intoxicated guests “ordering hundreds of dollars-worth of food and drinks and then walk out without paying the bill,” Donall knew this was different.