- The police is investigating reports of antisemitic flyers in Miami Beach targeting CDC officials.
- "Hundreds" of residential homes had flyers outside them on Sunday, the city's mayor said.
- It was not immediately known exactly how many flyers were distributed
Antisemitic flyers targeting officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Biden administration were found outside hundreds of homes in Florida, officials said Monday.
"This morning hundreds of homes in our community found plastic bags outside their homes filled with a hateful anti-Semitic flyer and small pebbles," Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber wrote on Twitter.
A photo of the flyers appeared to show a list of officials from the CDC, Department of Health and Human Services, and pharmaceutical company Pfizer. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, Biden's COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients, and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla were among those named.
It is unclear who distributed the flyers, but Gelber said the Miami Beach Police Department is investigating the origin.
Bal Harbour Mayor Gabriel Groisman, who represents a small enclave within Miami Beach, posted the flyer on Twitter Sunday, saying "your flyers DO NOT intimidate us. We are a STRONG and PROUD people."
Miami Beach Police Department said on Sunday that it "has been made aware of an antisemitic flyer distributed overnight in residential neighborhoods" and is putting more officers on the streets.
"We have increased patrols in our neighborhoods and also at our religious institutions," the department tweeted.
It was not immediately known exactly how many flyers were distributed, and the police department did not immediately respond to Insider's request for clarification.
"There is no place for this in our community & we will do all we can to make that point clear," Gelber said.
This is the most recent example of antisemitic notes being found in residential communities. A community in Austin, Texas, reported the flyers at "potentially hundreds of homes," CBS Austin reported in December.
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