Posted on 03/27/2021 6:45:12 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
Mar. 26—On the second evening Miami Beach imposed its 8 p.m. curfew as part of a crackdown on spring breakers, an elite police unit crashed one pulsating street party packed with 400 or more people. Police reports describe an out-of-control scene after curfew in a residential area of South Beach — some people jumping on cars, others shattering glass, vandalizing property, trespassing, blocking roadways and smoking weed.
Yet the few arrest reports from that Sunday night incident show police singled out one person as a chief instigator, charging him with inciting a riot — Javon Washington, a 30-year-old from Indiana who recently moved to Miami.
His arrest report, summed up: He was playing music.
Washington, Beach police charge, was "observed playing music from a speaker, enticing those around to engage in unruly behavior." The report blames him, and his music, for "enticing people to wreck vehicles" and "causing subjects to make obscene gestures toward officers and taunt officers."
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No doubt he was playing some Willie Nelson. Or maybe some early vintage Myles Davis.
Footloose II
Probably Grammy nominees like Wet A&& P&&&&
And he was studying to be a particle physicist in his spare time.
Most people familiar with what passes for music these days don’t have any issue with the arrest.
Guilty of playing music while Javon?
Kneecap him.
“Javon Washington”
Looks left...
Looks right...
Notes that Miami is a deep blue power Democrat controlled center in a time when the DNC holds all branches of the fed.
Where’s BLM? This is EXACTLY what they claim to be attacking... if they were real, yo and not a private political army of the DNC.
I know it makes me want to smash.
Especially about four in the morning
Those kids and their datburn Rock n Roll music....oh wait, never mind.
he was playing a sort of boogie woogie me lord...
muddafugger, muddafugger, kill the cops, kill the cops, thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump
..reapeat..
“While police say he also urged the crowd to get rowdy and resist police, one witness denied that to a Herald reporter on the scene at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Sixth Street that night.“
Took to paragraph six to get to the real issue.
That’s just Javon and his folk dance music.
He was playing Roy Rogers tunes. When the cops showed up he put on, Happy trails...Until we meet again.
Yep, the music wasn’t the issue, inciting people to riot was the issue.
I worked as a prosecutor when the “mosh” fad hit, some years ago. One country(ish) band that played regularly at a local dance hall took to mixing in a mosh tune or two, late in the evening. The inevitable result was fist fights when mosh fans collided with kickers who just trying to return to their table with another round of beer.
A frustrated Deputy Sheriff, who had already pled to the band leader, and owner of the dance hall, for help, came to see me, and get my approval for his plan to arrest the band leader for inciting a riot the next time he led the band in a mosh tune and fisticuffs ensued. He was not pleased with my “no,” even when I explained that a prosecution based on the type of song the defendant played would make international news, and that the trial would see the courthouse square lined with satellite trucks.
Why not, I asked, just throughly investigate the fights? Shut down the band. Turn up the lights. The really bright ones they turn on at closing time. Everyone in the place is a potential witness, so ask for ID, and get their contact information.
When I was under age it was SOP at this establishment for for someone of age to bring a round of beer to the table and for those, with a temporary chronological inability to purchase alcohol themselves, to partake, in the relative safety of the dimly lit back tables. Any one with the bad luck to be doing the same when the lights came on could be ticketed, and the owner too, for serving the under aged. Do that, I advised, and the owner will tell the band to never play a mosh song for a country crowd.
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