Dubbed "Adrian's Kickback," the party at Huntington Beach was declared an unlawful assembly by police, who arrested 149 people, including 121 adults and 28 juveniles, for offenses such as vandalism, illegal firework and failure to disperse.
Video from the night shows police donning riot helmets and firing less-lethal rounds at party goers, who police said threw bottles, rocks and fireworks at officers
“It was nutso out of there,” Laura Klees told the Orange County Register.
Police said on Friday they were aware of the gathering being planned on the beach. The event originated from a TikTok user who invited people to his birthday party using a hashtag (#AndriansKickBack) that has since drawn more than 270 million views as of Monday.
On TikTok, some users claimed to be traveling to the party from states such as Michigan and Arizona.
According to police, about 400 people showed up to a lifeguard tower Friday night. On Saturday, the crowd was at least 2,500, police said.
The crowd partied and gathered on the beach, however, video also showed some people fighting and lighting fireworks. The group moved from the beach into the downtown area, too, and police said businesses, police vehicles and a lifeguard tower were damaged.
“It just started getting worse,” Klees, who was eating dinner in the area at the time, told the Orange County Register. “Then things got really crazy. You’d see mobs run this way, that way. Then they mobbed the pier.”
Who thinks this Adrian should have to pay for damages? Or was this an invite to people to trash the beach?A message for Adrian.
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It turns out Adrian never showed so it seems to be some asshole trying to stir up trouble.
Why di idiots post a party invite on Tik Tok knowing that it will probably turn inti a riot?
It's logical to assume that there was going to be some sort of response from those watching TikTok, or he never would have posted it in the first place. In a way, I feel a bit sad that people have to go to these extremes to feel liked, loved, "respected", whatever. It's reasonable that he be held accountable in some way for the results.
People will be people. Dumbasses have, for some reason, a better catch on people than smart people. That either means that people prefer fun despite the implications, or that dumb people are in an astonishing number compared to smart people. Pretty alarming.
I hate to be negative, but people are going to be buck wild this summer. Now that covid is over, and people were repressed in her home and stripped of entertainment for a year they will be crazy.
Yeah unfortunately no plane going to take me outta here. My friend said people are on anti depressants now days because Covid has ruined their social lives.
I think it's that way in a lot of places. Maybe the government is trying to get us all to kill each other so they can drop the population down to Bill Gate's 500 million world population.
Oh yeah. It's interesting to see a bunch of people from out of state show up. I mean who's going to spend a lot of gas money for a party? As usual some people stirred up trouble and I'm pretty sure it was the Out of Towners.
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