OT - Riots & shooting in Miami

[SlyPokerDog]

Shouldn't they wait until the Heat win the championship?

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Four bystanders were shot and three officers wounded on South Beach Monday morning in a deadly police-involved chase and firefight on Collins Avenue.


A YouTube video filmed from several stories above Collins Avenue shows the car driving south and then skidding to a stop as gunshots grow from distant firecracker-like pops to four echoing booms.

Pedestrians fled, or hid and then took off running as officers approached the driver’s side of the car in a semi-circle with guns drawn.

Roughly one minute after the car stopped, the pre-dawn darkness is lit by muzzle flashes and the air peppered with the sounds of rapid gun shots.

No one can be seen leaving the car.

Noriega said the driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

He also said four bystanders were shot during the chase, and said they could have been hit by stray bullets fired by police officers.




http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/30/2241990/police-gunmen-open-fire-on-south.html

 

[Haakzilla]

...this is all true, I live less than a mile from the "action"

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

So ghetto. There was a 'most miserable' cities list by some magazine this year and Miami came in at #1 with it's poverty and crime extremely high.

 

[MickZagger]

It depends on where your at, but Miami is a weird city. Very shady.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Apparently it was "urban beach week" in Miami.

http://www.blackbeachweek.com/urbanbeachweek1.html

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Urban Beach Week keeps the produces of first 48 extremely busy. I've seen more than one episode featuring this event.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

BRING BACK FREAKNIK!!!! :MARIS61:

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Stern should step in and cancel the finals.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Them crackaz...they just get in the way.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I thought it was cool at the end when all the shots cracked.

 

[Haakzilla]

I thought it was cool at the end when all the shots cracked.

...cool?!