A large number of Arizonans took part in a chaotic Fourth of July celebration that reportedly devolved into blocking roadways and throwing fireworks at police in a California beach city.<\/p>\n
The city of Newport Beach said police arrested 402 people from midnight on July 3 through 6 a.m. on July 5 \u2014 including people who refused dispersal orders.<\/p>\n
The city’s police declared an unlawful assembly, citing \u201clarge unruly crowds\u201d near 26th Street and the beach just before 8:30 p.m. on July 4.<\/p>\n
Nearly half of the people who were apprehended during the incident were from Arizona, The Orange County Register reported on July 7, citing data from police. Of those arrested or cited during the July Fourth chaos, 161 were from California, and 145 were from Arizona, the newspaper reported. The data showed 11 Arizonans were arrested and 134 were cited.<\/p>\n
According to the city, Fourth of July celebrations drew tens of thousands of residents and visitors. However, social media posts drew a \u201clarge influx of juveniles and young adults to the Newport Pier area within a short period of time,” the city said in a news release.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the crowd rapidly grew, individuals engaged in increasingly dangerous and unlawful behavior,\u201d including by \u201cblocking roadways, restricting emergency vehicle access and throwing explosive mortars, fireworks and other projectiles at police officers,\u201d the city said.<\/p>\n
Joe DeJulio, president of the Newport Beach Police Association, posted a statement online praising officers who acted with “courage, professionalism and excellence.”<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday, as our nation celebrated its semi-quincentennial with families and neighbors gathering peacefully, joyfully, and safely…a large group of agitators invaded Newport Beach, spurred on by an alleged \u2018TikTok Takeover.\u2019 These persons came to our city with the intent on causing harm, injury, and destruction, bringing harassment, disturbances, and mayhem,\u201d DeJulio said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large number of Arizonans took part in a chaotic Fourth of July celebration that reportedly devolved into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1956,7,9,8,723,67560,157338,734,236,7361,81047,67561],"class_list":["post-390804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-arizona","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crime","tag-freedom-of-assembly","tag-independence-day-united-states","tag-law-enforcement","tag-police","tag-protests","tag-riots","tag-social-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390804","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=390804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}