COPWATCH Jan. 17, 2021 - Utter Idiocy
Channel: Miami Beach Audits
Date: 2021-01-17

Filmed 1/17/2021
1200 Blk. Washington Av.
Miami Beach, FL

5 MBPD units-3 black-and-whites and 2 unmarked-were riding around for an hour with their strobes flashing, playing a months-old recording misstating the curfew hours and threatening people with arrest for violating it if they fail to disperse. 
That 10pm curfew was struck down by a judge when the governor ordered the reopening in September. 
The county then passed a new ordinance  which only requires that all businesses be closed from midnight to 6am, it doesn't apply to individuals. (That one was struck by a judge, {Tootsie's et al v Miami-Dade county, FL 9th district court} but the county appealed and the appeals court stayed enforcement of the lower court 's ruling-in layman's terms, they reinstated the curfew-until THEY decide it. The oral arguments are docketed for the middle of February) 
MBPD is not enforcing the curfew against individuals, just playing a recording over their loudspeakers saying they will. 

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