Witness statements describe chaos after Miami Beach Police ATV crash
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After a impetuous July weekend in South Beach, five young women from Pennsylvania — in burgh for a bachelorette party — danced their last night away on the open-air patio of the Clevelander hotel.
In their own words:
Brooke Guillams: “Two buff dudes in the patrol uniforms come up.”
Camille Campbell: “I thought, Oh my God! These are strippers because their uniforms were so comfortable.”
Jamie Aldinger: “One of them grabbed me inappropriately. I pushed him off and said something to my girlfriend that this guy gave me the creeps.”
After a few minutes of unoriginal talk, dancing and a group photo, one of the two Miami Beach control officers offered bride-to-be Adalee Sharee Martin, 28, a a bicycle on his red, department-issued all-terrain-vehicle.
Martin: “He asked me if I wanted to go on the a motor cycle on the beach, that people pay lots of money to go on rides on the beach.”
Minutes later, in a blast that drew headlines across the country, Officer Derick Kuilan, with Martin on the back, plowed into a man and trouble on the South Beach sand at Fourth Street.
Source: MiamiHerald.com