Memorial Day Weekend Draws Both Crowds and Crime from Gun Fire on Daytona Beach to KMOV-TV Reported
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Volume 97 Number 41 | MAY 27-JUNE 2, 2020 | MiamiTimesOnline.com | Ninety-Three Cents Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross funds Miami Gardens Food Relief Program. PENNY DICKERSON [email protected] ood scarcity and job loss in the city of Miami Gardens is being aggressively addressed through a multi-million dollar partnership announced May 26 and funded by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross and the Miami Dolphins Foundation. The Miami Dolphins Food Relief Program is scheduled to launch June 1 and will pro- videF a minimum of 1,000 meals to families in need through a voucher system — Monday thru Friday out of Hard Rock Stadium. The initiative is expected to last one year, and meals will be prepared by Centerplate, the team’s food, beverage and retail partner. Photo: The Miami Dolphins On Sundays, the Dol- worldwide for a potential The Miami Dolphins Food Relief Program is scheduled to launch June 1 and will phins will partner with the $4 million total impact. faith-based community The economic toll of provide a minimum of 1,000 meals to families in need through a voucher system including area churches, the COVID-19 pandemic — Monday thru Friday, out of Hard Rock Stadium. The initiative is expected to last local leadership, and created a food crisis that one year, and meals will be prepared by Centerplate, the team’s food, beverage community groups to spared no socioeconomic and retail partner. purchase food from local class level. From unem- restaurants to provide a ployment to the sudden minimum of 1,000 meals transition of households We are committed to com- each Sunday that will be with children home from distributed to those deal- school during the day and bating food insecurity and ing with food insecurity. Gilbert the emergent needs of Mi- helping to provide consistent Ross and the organiza- ami-Dade County’s elderly employment as the first step in rebuilding tion will invest $2 million in the Mi- and most vulnerable population, ami Dolphins Foundation Food Relief everyone was financially affected. For our community, starting in Miami Gar- Program and will campaign to raise many, pride morphed into humility dens.” an additional $1 million by matching and forced them to pursue drive-thru, all dollars raised by the South Florida food give-aways. Now, the Food Relief —Stephen Ross, owner community and Miami Dolphins fans SEE MEAL 4A “ Miami Dolphins Foundation Memorial Day weekend draws both crowds and crime From gun fire on Daytona beach to KMOV-TV reported. In Daytona Beach, Flori- packed Midwest bars and no Disney da, gunfire erupted Saturday night along a beachside road CURT ANDERSON and Florida’s Gulf Coast, the where more than 200 people BRIAN MAHONEY crowds were so big that au- had gathered and were seen Associated Press thorities took the extraordi- partying and dancing despite nary step of closing parking the restrictions. Several peo- ST. PETERSBURG — The lots because they were full. ple were wounded and taken Memorial Day weekend On the Sunday talk shows, to the hospital, authorities marking the unofficial start of Dr. Deborah Birx, coordina- said. summer in the U.S. meant big tor of the White House coro- “We got slammed. Disney crowds at beaches and warn- navirus task force, said she is closed, Universal is closed. ings from authorities Sunday was “very concerned” about Everything is closed so where about people disregarding the scenes of people crowding to- did everybody come with coronavirus social-distancing gether over the weekend. the first warm day with 50% rules and risking a resurgence “We really want to be clear opening? Everybody came of the scourge that has killed all the time that social dis- to the beach,” Volusia Coun- nearly 100,000 Americans. tancing is absolutely critical. ty Sheriff Mike Chitwood Meanwhile, the White And if you can’t social dis- said at a Sunday news con- House announced a ban on tance and you’re outside, you ference, referring to crowds travel to the U.S. from Brazil, must wear a mask,” she said in the Daytona Beach area. which has been hard hit by on ABC’s “This Week.” But officials in California the pandemic. In Missouri, people packed said most people were cover- Sheriff’s deputies and beach bars and restaurants at the Photo: Jason Lee/AP ing their faces and keep their patrols tried to make sure Lake of the Ozarks, a vacation A couple stroll Myrtle Beach, SC representing freedoms many Americans exhibit- distance even as they ven- people kept their distance spot popular with Chicago- ed over Memorial Day weekend, many without wearing masks to protect them from tured to beaches and parks. from others as they soaked ans, over the weekend. One transmitting or being infected by the coronavirus. Bans have been placed on travel Many Southern California up the rays on the sand and video showed a crammed beaches were open only for at parks and other recreation pool where vacationers from Brazil to the U.S. and President Trump played golf for the second day in a row swimming, running and oth- sites around the country. lounged close together with- while reports emerged that the U.S. is on track to surpass 100,000 coronavirus er activities. Sunbathing and In the Tampa area along out masks, St. Louis station deaths in the next few days. 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Box 270200 and incarcerated. Buena Vista Station, Miami, Florida 33127 creed or color, his or her human and Foreign $75.00 Buena Vista Station, Miami, FL Phone 305-694-6210 7 percent sales tax for Florida residents 33127-0200 • 305-694-6210 JULIANNE MALVEAUX, NNPA Newswire Contributor legal rights. Hating no person, fearing H.E. SIGISMUND REEVES Founder, 1923-1968 no person, the Black Press strives to There were 4623 incarcerated people over 65 in GARTH C. REEVES SR. Publisher Emeritius help every person in the firm belief that GARTH C. REEVES JR. Editor, 1972-1982 all persons are hurt as long as anyone federal prisons during the first week of May. Un- is held back. RACHEL J. REEVES Publisher and Chairman til May 12, Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s one-time campaign manager, was one of them. The 71-year- old petitioned the court for release to home con- finement because of his age, heart condition, and “fear of coro- Obama lives deep inside Trump's head navirus.” Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served CHARLES M. BLOW, columnist, The New York Times fewer than two years of his more than seven-year sentence. Re- Trump’s run for president direct result of Trump’s failed cently developed federal guidelines suggest at-home confine- was in part triggered by his policies. ment for those at risk who have served more than half of their enmity for Obama, his desire Trump has tried for months sentence or have less than eighteen months of jail time left to to one-up him, and he has per- to do what he has always done: serve. Manafort meets none of these criteria, but he apparently formed his presidency as a invent an alternate reality, lie, had enough high-priced lawyers to push his case aggressively. singularly focused attempt at blame and brag, deny respon- I’m not as outraged at Manafort’s early release as I am dis- Obama erasure, dismantling sibility and claim victory. But turbed about the other 4622 elderly inmates, most who lack the what he can of what Obama that simply doesn’t work as resources and access that Manafort had. Nearly forty percent built and undoing policies well when the coronavirus of those incarcerated in federal prisons are African American, Obama instituted. has claimed more American many serving very long sentences for drug-related crimes. Obama is everything that lives in a few months than Many have some of the same underlying medical conditions Trump is not: intellectual, ar- the Vietnam War claimed in a and “fear of coronavirus” that Manafort had. How many of ticulate, adroit, contemplative decade. It doesn’t work when them will get an early release and the relative luxury of home and cool. He also happens to tens of millions of Americans confinement? The treatment of a wealthy, older white man and be a black man. The fact that are out of work and the econ- a poor, older Black man is vastly different. he could not only ascend to omy is teetering on a depres- Credit: Bing Guan/Reuters Prisons are a breeding ground for the coronavirus. Prisons the height of power but also sion. Former President Barack Obama delivering a virtu- are overcrowded with social distancing an impossibility since the heights of celebrity and So, Trump is reaching past an average cell, about five feet by five, does not allow six feet of adoration vexed Trump.