Miami Beach Declares Emergency to Halt Spring Break Violence
Police and pedestrians along Ocean Drive on South Beach, in Miami, on March 17.
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Miami Beach declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew Sunday night in response to two fatal shootings in the city’s Ocean Drive entertainment district.
The Florida city’s commission will meet Monday to discuss extending restrictions for the coming weekend, Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said in a recorded briefing. The two separate deadly shootings involved visitors, according to Gelber, as spring break brought a large number of unruly crowds and guns from other states, creating a “whole intolerable situation,” he said.