What to Know A total of 13 people were arrested for battery, trespassing or resisting arrest while another eight were charged with drug offenses. Miramar 11 hours ago. Thanksgiving 10 hours ago. Back to Article. Close Menu. Search for:. The sukkah, a temporary abode that religious Jews move into for the upcoming holiday of Sukkot, belongs to the Rabbi Moshe Bransdorfer, a member of the hardline Eida Charedit ultra-Orthodox leadership council. Pictures of the wood-paneled hut balanced atop a precarious-looking jumble of scaffolding directly over a busy street elicited shock when shared online.
The city declared the structure a public safety hazard and dispatched police to demolish the structure, though members of the community produced papers purporting to show that the structure had been inspected and approved by an engineer.
City workers initially arrived in the afternoon to begin taking apart the scaffolds, but community members barricaded themselves inside the sukkah, making it unsafe to do so until police could remove them.
Police eventually left the neighborhood without taking down the structure, after community members agreed to take it out down themselves, the Kikar Hashabbat website reported. Police often meet heavy resistance while trying to enforce government regulations in Mea Shearim, an insular bastion of hardline Haredi Judaism under the de facto thumb of rabbinical authorities distrustful of the secular government. Clashes have been sparked in the past over attempts to arrest draft-dodgers or enforce coronavirus regulations there, among other things.
But authorities have also been accused of turning a blind eye to avoid riling up the community. Well, Miami police have released their crime stats from the second week of Ultra and the actual results were something less than a Mad Max dystopia. MPD arrested 86 people last weekend, bringing the two-week Ultra total to arrests.
Many were narcotics related, but gatecrashers were the biggest problem, Sgt. Freddie Cruz tells Riptide. Although police didn't have an exact breakdown of what festival-goers were arrested for, Cruz says the majority were either drug related or folks trying to sneak into the grounds.
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