All eyes on Miami Beach this Memorial Day weekend [Urban Thug "Music" Festival]

Miami Herald ^ | 5/3/12 | David Smiley

[SoFloFreeper]

...when the expected crowds return to South Beach this month — Memorial Day will be observed Monday, May 28 — they will find that wounds inflicted by years of raucous, days-long street bacchanals were ripped open last year when 11 officers unleashed a barrage of bullets on Collins Avenue during their chase of a driver they said was armed.

The driver died. Four bystanders were hit by bullets.

This year, the heavy police presence, which some argue contributed to the tension, will intensify significantly. A checkpoint. Watch towers. Police in pairs on every corner. Drivers on all three causeways leading into South Beach — the MacArthur, Venetian and Julia Tuttle — will be affected, with police surveillance on the MacArthur and Tuttle.

[servantboy777]

I'd hate to be a white boy passing through the area and have a flat tire.

I can hear the Trayvon drum beat from here.

[Caipirabob]

Since 2001, Memorial Day on Miami Beach has become a haven for, obstensibly, cRAP music lovers.

I wrote off American pop except for some country and classic rock when CRAP music became prominent.

It fits the communist goals of promoting filthy, meaningless, pornified material and presenting it as "art" or "music".

It is a derivative of a culture worthy of a petri dish.

I don't accept it. Period.

Better stuff - "the Good"

If the sun does not to shine

If there is only darkness

Evil can not overcome

Those who have faith to pray and say Amen

And see that everyone is able

To have a world of love and peace

When you do only good...

[Kenton]

Great. To quote the Rolling Stones, "summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street".

Will we be afraid to go out in public gatherings for fear of being attacked by mobs of black teenagers, like last summer? Will gun owners fight back, or just submit?

I suspect what happened to Treyvon Martin may become a template for the future.