Thousands of people descend on Newport Beach, drawn by flash mob-style meetup organized online<\/p>\n
An alleged \u201cTikTok takeover\u201d sparked mayhem in a southern California beach town over the Fourth of July weekend, leading to fires, roughly 400 arrests and officers on horseback for crowd control.<\/p>\n
Thousands of people descended on Newport Beach, California, on Saturday night, many drawn by an online flash mob-style meetup, according to a city statement. Balboa Peninsula was already packed with tens of thousands of Fourth of July revelers, but as night fell, officials said, a large crowd obstructed traffic, set fires and hurled explosives at law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n
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