{"id":387619,"date":"2026-07-06T05:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387619\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T05:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:43:09","slug":"july-fourth-chaos-ensues-as-people-clash-with-california-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387619\/","title":{"rendered":"July Fourth Chaos Ensues as People Clash With California Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police made <a data-ylk=\"slk:hundreds of arrests;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newportbeachca.gov\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/44707\/99\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of arrests<\/a> at Newport Beach, California, as thousands gathered for Independence Day celebrations on Saturday, July 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police officers arrested 402 people in the area as crowds engaged in &#8220;increasingly dangerous and unlawful behaviour&#8221; including setting off fireworks, <a data-ylk=\"slk:according to;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newportbeachca.gov\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/44707\/99\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> the City of Newport Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our officers remained focused on one priority throughout the evening, protecting our community and restoring public safety,&#8221; Newport Beach Police Chief Dave Miner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage from @herbertgcalderon shows police and civilians scrambling across the sands of Balboa Peninsula. Credit: @herbertgcalderon via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police made hundreds of arrests at Newport Beach, California, as thousands gathered for Independence Day celebrations on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,156276,156275,5860,1100,156274],"class_list":["post-387619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-dave-miner","tag-independence-day-celebrations","tag-newport-beach","tag-police-officers","tag-unlawful-behaviour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}