Apparently confident in their immunity from the law, they used her credit cards throughout Miami Beach for subsequent purchases.
Faced with rising mob mayhem, Miami Beach's mayor declared an 8:00 p.m. curfew for Saturday, March 19.
To the Times and its sources, the only possible reason for the city's response to the "By and large, nonviolent" partying was that the participants were black.
The chair of the Miami-Dade Black Affairs Advisory Board, Stephen Hunter Johnson, told the Times: "I think people see these large crowds of young Black people, and there is anger and the sense that something must be done." In fact, the city had allowed the chaos to grow for days.
The president of the Miami-Dade NAACP, Daniella Pierre, told the Times that Miami Beach needed to project a "More welcoming attitude toward Black visitors.... it felt like you looked at the group and treated them like they were here to do you harm." But it was the actual harm being done that brought out the quasi-military response, not vice versa.
Miami Beach's Democratic mayor, Dan Gelber, rejected the claim of racial bias: "We did not target race; we targeted conduct," he told the Times.
In the fourth paragraph of the story, the Times acknowledges that "There has been some violence; in perhaps the most serious case, two male visitors are accused of drugging and raping a woman who later died." But we hear no more about the incident until much later in the story: "In the case of the woman who died, the police have arrested two North Carolina men on charges of drugging and raping her and stealing her credit cards. The woman, a 24-year-old from Pennsylvania, was later found dead in her Miami Beach hotel room."
https://www.city-journal.org/new-york-times-turns-blind-eye-to-violence-in-miami
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