In 1928, Yogananda received unfavourable publicity in Miami and the police chief, Leslie Quigg, prohibited Yogananda from holding any further events. Quiggs said it was not due to a personal grudge against the Swami but rather in the interest in public order and Yogananda's own safety. Quigg had received veiled threats against Yogananda. According to Phil Goldberg, it turns out that Miami officials had summoned the British vice consulate to advise them on the matter... one consulate officer said that the Miami city manager and Chief Quigg 'recognized the fact that the swami was a British subject and apparently an educated man, but unfortunately he was what is considered in this part of the country a coloured man.’ Given the South’s cultural mores, he noted, ‘the swami was in great danger of suffering bodily harm from the populace.’"