75 guns confiscated
Florida law enforcement officials say they arrested 78 people from Alabama in Panama City Beach, Fla., over the weekend and confiscated 75 guns as spring break revelry devolved into chaos.
In a report aired before the shooting, Panama City-based ABC affiliate WMBB-TV reported that some beach roads had been shut down and some businesses had closed voluntarily, including a Walmart, due to gridlock and rowdy behavior. Interviewed at the time, Talamantez told the station that people were “acting a fool” but that there had been no violence and that he would not characterize any of the activity as a riot.
, including the 78 from Alabama. Talamantez and other said they had been braced for trouble for weeks or even months, related to a specific group of people allegedly motivated by a social media influencer. Ford said law enforcement officials had been doing intelligence work for weeks. Over the weekend, they had used technology such as license plate readers and surveillance cameras to track people of interest, he said.
“This isn’t what we want coming to our city,” said Smith. “We want the spring breakers, we want the tourists. We don’t want this element. The element that brings this [a reference to the confiscated guns] is not the element that’s desired in our city. We are not going to be tolerant to it, we are not going to permit it.”
“We will not tolerate bad behavior in Panama City Beach in any way, shape or form. If you want to come here and be a bad person, you picked the wrong place,” said Mayor Mark Sheldon. “This was not spring breakers. So trust me when I tell you, this is just a bad element of people who did this.”
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