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Miami Beach public officials and police officers were not amused by YouTube streamer Jack Doherty’s antics over the weekend.
Just after 3 a.m. on Saturday, the 22-year-old social media influencer and New Times Dirty Dozen honoree was arrested on multiple charges, including resisting an officer without violence and possession of amphetamine, while standing and filming in the middle of the busy 700 block of Washington Avenue in South Beach. Doherty repeatedly disregarded officers’ demands to exit the roadway, stating, “Alright, after I hit this hand,” according to a video of the incident.
“You wanna be fucking funny? If you’re gonna be funny, get out of the fucking street, ” a Miami Beach cop told Doherty. “I don’t know who the fuck you are, bro.”
As officers detained and searched the streamer, they discovered half of an orange amphetamine pill and a black plastic container containing three cannabis cigarettes, according to a Miami Beach Police Department press release. He was arrested and transported to a Miami Beach jail.
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Following Doherty’s arrest, Miami Beach Commissioner Joe Magazine didn’t mince words about what he thought of the 22-year-old YouTube star.
“Ensuring that entitled little shitheads like this know that if you come to Miami Beach, you will respect our city, respect our men and women in blue, and respect our laws makes our entire community better,” Magazine wrote on Instagram. “Our incredible law enforcement have [sic] my full support enforcing our laws regardless of someone’s color, social media count, bank account, or any other arbitrary measure that leads people to wrongly believe they have special entitlement in our city. Miami Beach = FAFO.”
Doherty was released on bond on Sunday night, telling CBS News Miami, “I’m free after 24 hours. I’m a free man, baby; let’s go!”
The influencer, who has nearly 3 million followers on Instagram and 15 million followers on YouTube, thanks to his stunt and prank videos, gained notoriety in South Florida after he crashed his $200,000 McLaren on Florida’s Turnpike in Miami-Dade County during a livestream last year. The stream caught Doherty looking down at this phone before suddenly accelerating and then losing control of his custom, light blue, splatter-painted McLaren 570S.
Clips from the video quickly went viral on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, considering Doherty appeared to be more worried about his car than his bleeding cameraman, whom he instructed to keep filming despite his injuries.
“Bro, my whole fucking car, bro,” Doherty said. “No fucking way. Oh, my gosh. There is no fucking way.”
Florida Highway Patrol cited Doherty for driving while operating a handheld device. Originally from Long Island, New York, Doherty moved to South Florida in 2022 from Los Angeles after his landlord tried to evict him.
