What Happened on Memorial Day in Miami Beach?

“Haitian Youth” Raymond Herisse and Urban Beach Week: Coming to an America Near You—Unless There’s an Immigration Moratorium
By Nicholas Stix on September 30, 2011
VDARE

At 4 a.m. on May 30—Memorial Day—in the middle of “Urban Beach Week”— Raymond Herisse, 22, of Boynton Beach, Florida, was shot dead by police in the South Beach area of Miami Beach.

 

One of Haitian-American Herisse’s many mug shots.

[VDARE.com note: As usual, none of the mainstream media has published anything useful about Raymond Herisse's citizenship status, where he was born, et cetera.However, leftwing blogger Axis of Logic describes him this way: “Miami Police Assassinate Character of Haitian Youth After Taking His Life”]

“Urban Beach Week,” aka “Hip-Hop Weekend” has come to mean anarchy in Miami Beach. Up to 300,000 black “hip-hop” fans, many intent on wreaking havoc, descend upon a city with fewer than 90,000 residents, only four percent of whom are black. They assault and intimidate people, block traffic, blast music 24/7, steal food and drink, trash restaurants, urinate on police vans, and fondle every woman who tries to walk down the street. This mayhem is a ten-year tradition.

The unfortunate truth: This is what too many blacks, of all ages and social classes, understand as “just having fun”—committing crimes, or cheering them on, as they watch the world burn.

[Read the rest here.]