A Fort Myers Beach spring breaker was arrested after playing N.W.A.'s anti-police anthem; charges not filed

Blaring N.W.A.'s 'F*** tha Police' led to the arrest of a spring breaker on Fort Myers Beach on Thursday. Deputies said the song caused a crowd of teens to act rowdy and damage a patrol vehicle.

But, ultimately, prosecutors disagreed and declined to file charges against Marquez Ballin.

Ballin had a brief first appearance in front of a judge Friday afternoon where an assistant state attorney confirmed the charges would not proceed.

"The defendant was at the Lani Kai for spring break and carried a stereo playing the song 'F the Police,'" said Samantha Syoen, spokeswoman for the state attorney's office. "Further down the road, three people jumped on a police car. According to the prosecutor, Assistant State Attorney JoAnn Biddle, there was no indication the defendant's actions were intended to cause or to incite a riot."

Ballin, who turned 20 on Tuesday, was vacationing on the Beach from Indiana when deputies say he was carrying a large boombox blaring N.W.A.'s 'F*** tha Police' at the Lani Kai.

The 1988 song was released by Compton's N.W.A. and protested police brutality and racial profiling by police officers.

Ballin was arrested just before 10:30 p.m. after deputies were dispatched to the Lani Kai in reference to about a group of 100 young people chanting "fight, fight, fight."

When deputies arrived they noticed the crowd was just listening to music and letting off steam and allowed the behavior to continue until 11 p.m. After that deputies cleared the crowd out of the area. The group then walked over to Times Square and the pier. Deputies then began to get reports from vacationing families saying the group was acting rowdy.

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According to the arrest report, at least three kids were jumping on a deputy's patrol car. stationed at the bottom of the Matanzas Pass Bridge.

A 5-second video from the incident posted to Twitter shows at least two people standing on the hood of a sheriff's office patrol vehicle dancing and gesturing toward the crowd.

The deputy chased the kids, but they ran into the crowd.

The crowd continued to chant "F*ck tha Police" and the deputy "decided that this was turning into a riot." At that point, he found Ballin who was carrying the loudspeaker.

"The speaker was causing all the mayhem and had to be turned off," the arrest report reads. The report alleges several people in the crowd attempted to attack deputies when Ballin was walked over to the patrol vehicle.

Ballin admitted to carrying the speaker but said he did not know who owned it. It was eventually returned to the father of the person who owned it.