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  • Family Of Man Killed During Urban Beach Week Files Suit

    05/22/2013 2:33:23 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 24 replies
    CBS MIAMI ^ | 5/21/13
    The family of a Boynton Beach man who died in a hail of police gunfire on Miami Beach two years ago over Memorial Day weekend filed a wrongful death suit against Miami Beach and cities whose police officers were involved in shooting. The shooting took place around 4 a.m. on May 30th, 2011. Police said Ray Herisse, 22, was driving erratically and tried to hit an officer with his car on a crowded Collins Avenue when they tried to pull him over. “There was an indication he may have been driving under the influence. But if it is Miami beach’s...
  • Miami Beach Police Get Strict For Memorial Day Weekend

    05/25/2012 3:47:50 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 24 replies
    CBS MIAMI ^ | 5/25/12
    Miami Beach will be flooded with visitors this Memorial Day Weekend as part of the 13th annual Urban Beach Week, which is dubbed the largest Urban festival in the world. Due to the large number of people expected, upwards of 300,000 to 350,000 people, Miami Beach police are implementing some new procedures to ensure the safety of residents and visitors alike.
  • Urban Beach Week Destroys South Beach … Again

    06/04/2011 6:18:32 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 55 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 4, 2011 | Doug Giles
    Well, I’m going to be called a racist for this one, but here it goes: What the heck is up with the hip hop crowd trashing South Beach year after year on Memorial Day? Is this how your crew celebrates the hard-won freedoms our nation’s heroes gave their lives for—by annually ransacking South Florida and shooting at cops? It’s gotten so bad down on South Beach while the Urban Beach Weekers are in town that South Floridians, of all races, remind each other not to go south past Surfside until the “Urban Beach Week” is over because it is one...