HEADS UP ! -Memorial Day Weekend on South Beach: Private Security, I.D. Checks & License Plate Scanners for All

(FEDERALJACK) This won’t just be used for Memorial Day weekend, I bet they roll it out for every weekend and then just all the time. There are already cameras all over the highways in south Fl and South Beach is no exception. And I don’t want to hear the crap about the need for all of this police presence, if the city didn’t issue the permits and allow the hip-hop parties to happen then they wouldn’t. People don’t know that this very same weekend party took place in Atlanta for a long time until they got tired of it and threw them out. I lived through this weekend myself for seven years and I can tell you the hotels and other businesses have been closing up for years, this is just the first time the media has covered it. This is classic example of PROBLEM, REACTION, SOLUTION.

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Comment by karen arsenault on May 28, 2012 at 2:03pm: maybe the zombi's are in Miami and they need to set up security

One man is dead and another hospitalized after a bizarre assault off Miami's MacArthur Causeway reportedly forced a police officer to open fire.

City of Miami police say the incident began Saturday afternoon about 2 p.m. when an officer responded to reports of 2 men fighting in the bike path of the Biscayne Boulevard exit ramp, alongside the Miami Herald's parking garage. There, according to the Herald, the officer observed a naked man eating another man's face:

The officer...approached and saw that the naked man was actually chewing the other man's head, according to witnesses. The officer ordered the naked man to back away, and when he continued the assault, the officer shot him.
The attacker continued to eat the man, despite being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a half dozen shots.

According to CBS Miami, police sources said the victim had "virtually no face" and was unrecognizable.

View surveillance video of the shooting below. (May not be suitable for all viewers.)

"[Officers] attempted to separate them, there was some sort of confrontation," Miami Police spokesman Willie Moreno told Local10.

Photographs taken from the Herald's garage show the naked man lying dead at the scene. Police said his victim was transported to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Officials have yet to identify the officer involved, the deceased, or the victim. The incident snarled traffic on the causeway for hours during busy Memorial Day weekend as multiple lanes of vehicles were routed around the crime scene.

UPDATE, 5/27: While Miami Police remain tight-lipped about the incident, investigators are asking witnesses to contact authorities. The Herald reports detectives believe the victim may have been homeless and the naked man suffering from "cocaine psychosis," which could have prompted him to remove his clothing.

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