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Hard Rock Stadium successful Miami Gardens, Florida, volition person a monolithic constabulary beingness passim the remainder of the Club World Cup this month, arsenic the metropolis looks to debar a repetition of the near-deadly incidental that resulted successful 26 arrests past year.
The 2024 Copa America last saw a swarm of ticketless fans unreserved the gates for a lucifer betwixt Argentina and Colombia, leaving fans terrified and bloodied arsenic information struggled to incorporate the crush, arsenic they attempted to interruption in.
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Fans effort to participate the stadium amid disturbances anterior to the CONMEBOL Copa America 2024 Final lucifer betwixt Argentina and Colombia astatine Hard Rock Stadium connected July 14, 2024 successful Miami Gardens, Florida. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
Videos showed immoderate fans trying to ascent done aerial vents to summation entry. Police had to assistance distressed children implicit barriers to debar them being crushed, portion elsewhere officers tackled to the crushed the ticketless fans they could drawback successful a forlorn effort to support the hoards astatine bay.
But things are antithetic this summer.
"We’ve enactment extended measures successful spot to support fans, players and staff," Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said earlier the tournament. "The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office is starring each information efforts for this planetary event."
Changes made implicit the past twelvemonth mean fans for this tourney indispensable walk done 3 abstracted checkpoints that enclose the full field earlier getting adjacent to the stadium. Steel fencing is acceptable up astir the perimeter.
First up is simply a summons cheque astatine impermanent gates, taking up ample parts of the parking batch wherever tailgate parties mightiness usually instrumentality place. Then comes different airport-style screening nether tents wherever bags are checked by X-ray machines. Even flags request to beryllium approved.
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Police officers patrol the country arsenic fans hold to participate astatine stadium anterior to the Copa America last shot lucifer betwixt Argentina and Colombia Sunday, July 14, 2024, successful Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Fans were capable to get overmuch person to the stadium earlier checkpoints astatine the Copa America.
"When I was astatine the final, the information guards conscionable opened the gross and started letting radical through," Edison Negron, a Boca Juniors instrumentality from Puerto Rico, told The Associated Press erstwhile describing the scenes arsenic fans crushed against the barriers past year.
Miami-Dade County said astatine the clip that a afloat reappraisal would beryllium conducted and that the scenes "cannot hap again."
"There volition beryllium a important instrumentality enforcement and information footprint successful and astir the stadium to guarantee nationalist information for each the events," Det. Argemis Colome told the AP, portion adding that societal media was being monitored anterior to matches.
Preparations person included peculiar grooming for a rapid-deployment unit arsenic portion of a multi-agency effect to imaginable assemblage trouble.
"If things spell south, we get acceptable for civilian unrest and unruly fans," the sheriff’s bureau said successful a societal media post.
A ample constabulary beingness has been evident astatine some games played astatine Hard Rock truthful acold — Saturday’s tourney opener erstwhile a assemblage of much than 60,000 watched Inter Miami vs. Al Ahly and Monday’s lucifer betwixt Boca Juniors and Benfica successful beforehand of astir 56,000.
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Policemen speech with fans extracurricular the stadium anterior to the Copa America last shot lucifer betwixt Argentina and Colombia in Miami Gardens, Fla., Sunday, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Patrol cars person been stationed on the interstate extracurricular of the stadium and, wrong the grounds, officers equipped with look shields and protective covering are connected patrol.
FIFA said it had worked intimately with stadium officials, authorities and national agencies "to guarantee a robust information presence."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
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