A 17-year-old named Adrian posted an invitation to his birthday party on TikTok.
One of the thousands of strangers who showed up describes the wild night.
One of the thousands of strangers who showed up describes the wild night.
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00:00What's going on right here
00:17A guy named adrian posted a video to tiktok
00:20About his little birthday get together
00:23But because it blew up and so many people found out about it
00:26It became a big joke like oh, we should all show up to this guy's party
00:30To celebrate and it just became so big that thousands of people from all over
00:35Different states decided to come and celebrate
00:45Saturday night
00:46It started right before the sun went down. Everyone was standing around
00:51A big crowd formed and people were just playing music
00:55And then there were dozens of cops at least like at least like 100 cops waiting
01:02and
01:03When someone threw a firework, uh all the cops
01:07Uh went on the loudspeaker and said get off the beach or we'll start shooting with non-lethal rounds
01:13And so that's when everyone started running. It was like a big
01:16Like panic so there were thousands of people just running around running away from the cops
01:22and from that point
01:24Once everyone ran away from the beach. We all got together at the main pier in huntington
01:29and that's where
01:31It became like the main event. Everyone was just in one big crowd with fireworks and jumping off the pier
01:37and uh
01:39Eventually the cops managed to get everyone away from the pier into the street
01:43and so the rest of the night everyone was just in the street shooting fireworks or listening to music or
01:49whatever else
01:54So
02:11Definitely people were doing things they weren't supposed to be doing the entire party itself was something that shouldn't have happened during covid
02:18And regardless of the acts of vandalism and the people's cars getting damaged and the buildings getting damaged
02:26Um when I was there people were breaking cop windows and people were spray painting the cop cars
02:32But in general that wasn't the majority of people
02:34I think it was a very unique experience for so many people to be in one place for the same thing
02:40But no one knowing what's going to happen. There was a very like thick
02:45Sense of expecting and
02:49curiosity
02:50uh
02:51Everyone there even though we were all strangers and from different places. We all had a sense of solidarity
02:58and felt
02:59Safe with one another
03:01I think a lot of people have been cooped in for so long that they jumped at the chance to have a big
03:07party like this
03:15You