{"id":124638,"date":"2021-02-11T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=124638"},"modified":"2021-02-11T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:42:46","slug":"tampa-mayors-offices-clarifies-threat-police-looking-for-vandals-not-maskless-revelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tampa-mayors-offices-clarifies-threat-police-looking-for-vandals-not-maskless-revelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Mayor\u2019s Offices Clarifies Threat: Police Looking For Vandals, Not Maskless Revelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftampa-mayors-offices-clarifies-threat-police-looking-for-vandals-not-maskless-revelers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=124638&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1231023273.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Tampa mayor\u2019s office clarified a warning from Mayor Jane Castor, noting that the city\u2019s police department is seeking to identify individuals caught on tape who vandalized city property and will not be issuing citations to revelers who failed to wear masks for post-Super Bowl partying.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reported Monday that Castor vowed to identify \u201cbad actors\u201d who would then be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had tens of thousands of people all over the city, downtown, out by the stadium and very very few incidents,\u201d Castor said in her press conference the day after the Super Bowl. \u201cSo I\u2019m proud of our community but those few bad actors will be identified and the Tampa Police Department will handle it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, it appeared Castor was referring to those individuals who failed to wear a mask for the celebrations, a violation of Castor\u2019s executive order requiring masks for Tampa residents and visitors during Super Bowl weekend. The mayor\u2019s office, though, issued a statement to Newsweek correcting that impression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTampa Police are working to identify the people who destroyed street signs and other property during Super Bowl celebrations, not people who failed to wear a mask,\u201d the city official noted, adding that \u201cthe City of Tampa did not issue citations to individuals who failed to wear a mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn hopes of curbing so-called superspreader events, Castor had signed a largely voluntary executive order requiring people wear face coverings during the Super Bowl festivities, even while they\u2019re outdoors,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/coronavirus\/os-ne-coronavirus-tampa-super-bowl-party-20210208-du5nwvkmrzdjjjoqwpty7ltaju-story.html\">the&nbsp;Orlando Sentinel reported last week<\/a>. \u201cShe pleaded with people to celebrate safely, noting the city could issue fines of up to $500.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the Daily Wire noted, although Castor had signed the executive order and setting a fine for failing to wear a mask at $500 per incident, it was not clear the city could enforce the rule, given that Florida has no mask mandate and Florida governor Ron DeSantis took steps to curb local officials ability to set their own mask mandates.<\/p>\n<p>Castor also had a bigger problem: she would have had to issue a fine to herself, as she was pictured without a mask attending the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTampa Mayor Jane Castor says she will use the power of the government to hunt down anyone not wearing a mask after the Super Bowl,\u201d sports commentator Dave Hookstead noted on Twitter. \u201cAlso, here\u2019s a photo of the Tampa mayor maskless at a sporting event. The hypocrisy never ends!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police in Tampa are still looking for a small number of vandals who caused damage to city property during the celebration following the Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u2019 Super Bowl win. So far, at least 18 people have been arrested for vandalism, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/sports\/nfl\/superbowl\/tampa-police-report-18-arrests-in-super-bowl-celebration-aftermath\/67-ad39c58a-25d3-4b5b-b231-00e827ce30f2\">according to local news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>\u201cSunday night fans celebrating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers home Super Bowl win could be seen removing street signs, tossing barricades, and climbing trees, as the Tampa Police Department worked to disperse crowds that quickly grew out of control,\u201d Channel 10 Tampa Bay reported. \u201cOn Monday, city crews and private property owners were out cleaning up the damage. We spotted smashed fences, electric scooters tossed in retention ponds, and lots of trash left along downtown sidewalks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa mayor\u2019s office clarified a warning from Mayor Jane Castor, noting that the city\u2019s police department is seeking to identify individuals caught on tape who vandalized city property and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893212,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6375,6405,6406,3967,5762,4104],"class_list":["post-124638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-clarifies","tag-mayors","tag-offices","tag-police","tag-tampa","tag-threat"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}