News crew is attacked while filming a segment about rocketing crime on Miami's South Beach
CBS4 reporter Bobeth Yates and photojournalist Ebenezer Mends were reporting on the wave of violence along the party strip Wednesday night
A fight broke out and they started filming it but a group of people turned on them
Yates said she and Mends were both 'attacked', 'pushed' and 'hit'
The attackers also threw liquid thought to be alcohol in their faces, she said
The Miami Beach City Commission voted Wednesday to ban alcohol sales in the district after 2 am in an effort to curb the rise in violence in the area