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Tickets for loud music nearly 3 times more likely for Black drivers under new Florida law
Gainesville Sun via Yahoo ^ | May 2, 2023 | Meghan McGlone

Posted on 05/02/2023 4:06:35 PM PDT by grundle

Black drivers received almost 37% of the tickets, despite Black people making up only about 16% of Florida's driving-eligible population.

'Stop being racists,' says man ticketed 5 times for loud music

Carven Exantus, 34, of Miami has been ticketed five times for loud music – at $129 each – by police in Miami Beach, including twice the same day 90 minutes apart in October. Exantus, who is Black, beat four of the tickets in court, so far. His most recent ticket was the afternoon of March 9 along Ocean Drive. He has pleaded not guilty.

He urged police and the Legislature to suspend enforcing the law: “Stop being racists, simple. Something is disproportionately affecting one group, and it's designed to be that way. If it's walking and quacking like a duck, it's a duck. It's racist.”

Exantus was ticketed driving road-legal golf carts with license plates and headlights for his business, Crew Cart Services LLC of Miami. It offers tours, pick-ups and drop-offs for tourists and locals along the beach district. The carts, with stereos, are open-air with no doors and no windows.

“We're getting harrassed to the point where I can't even conduct business,” Exantus said

His business partner, Fred Laurice Johnson, 33, has been ticketed four times in Miami Beach for loud music and contested all the $129 tickets. On Friday, he beat a ticket in court that accused him of playing Maroon 5 too loudly on Dec. 1. The judge dismissed it when the officer didn't show up to testify. Johnson, who is Black, and Exantus said they have never seen police use a sound-measuring device before writing tickets for loud music.

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1 posted on 05/02/2023 4:06:35 PM PDT by grundle
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The rattling license plate would bother me to no end.


2 posted on 05/02/2023 4:09:05 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: grundle

Uh, could it be possible that’s due to the fact that they are 1,000 times more likely to shake the whole block with the sound awfulness?


3 posted on 05/02/2023 4:09:22 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: grundle

Gee, if only there was some way that this guy could stop getting these tickets. I’m stumped. I can’t think of anything. Can you?


4 posted on 05/02/2023 4:10:41 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

This is surprising only to people who have never driven or ridden anywhere in a car.


5 posted on 05/02/2023 4:11:07 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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To: grundle

A lot of them are riding dirty and catch a felony case for their stupidity.


6 posted on 05/02/2023 4:11:35 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: grundle

Self explanatory why... Just set up a camera and let it run. Pictures are worth a thousand words.


7 posted on 05/02/2023 4:11:42 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: grundle

Obviously aimed at Amish youts.


8 posted on 05/02/2023 4:11:44 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: grundle
I'm not surprised. It correlates with my own personal observations.

9 posted on 05/02/2023 4:13:27 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: grundle

It is what is is.


10 posted on 05/02/2023 4:13:29 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Da Coyote

Exantus was ticketed driving road-legal golf carts with license plates and headlights for his business, Crew Cart Services LLC of Miami.


11 posted on 05/02/2023 4:14:21 PM PDT by TexasGator
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12 posted on 05/02/2023 4:14:58 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: grundle

“Stop being so rayciss! If I’m gonna listen to loud music, the whole town is going to listen to loud music.”


13 posted on 05/02/2023 4:15:09 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Libloather

I think noise pollution from guys with their muffler free pickups burn me up, then it’s the ass hats who have their radio blaring at car wash or while they’re inside at a gas station.

The music is always crap too.


14 posted on 05/02/2023 4:15:19 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: grundle
This gentleman is just learning to be an audiologist. Maybe he's working on developing a high-tech hearing aid for seniors.

After he finishes smokin' dis blunt, drankin' dis 40 oz and sheeit.

15 posted on 05/02/2023 4:16:09 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: grundle
“Stop being racists, simple. Something is disproportionately affecting one group, and it's designed to be that way. If it's walking and quacking like a duck, it's a duck. It's racist.”

Oh, shut up.

16 posted on 05/02/2023 4:16:23 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: grundle
Res ipsa loquitur....
17 posted on 05/02/2023 4:17:22 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: grundle

Oh no. Blacks picked on again.


18 posted on 05/02/2023 4:17:57 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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Owning a rental house in a mixed neighborhood I’d say that 100 percent of the painful stereos are being driven around by blacks.


19 posted on 05/02/2023 4:18:10 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: grundle

So they’ve established the loud music itself is racist. So why do they keep playing loud music?


20 posted on 05/02/2023 4:18:35 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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