“Idiots Destroyed 4th of July” - Newport Beach ERUPTS as Crowds Clash With Police

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:00)
Anyways, Newport Beach.
400 people were arrested.
Cops were hit, okay? Fireworks thrown at people. This is a city where the average home is $3 million.
You can buy a $100 million home in Newport Beach. People go there to live because they want to be left to f alone and they want to be safe. I think it's 60 plus percent Republican, if I'm not mistaken. I think so. Okay? Great area, Tom, you've been there many times, I've been there many times. I used to go there every week on Mondays. My drive would be to Newport Beach. Beautiful place. When Jen and I were thinking about what places to move after Texas, it was Nashville, Tennessee, it was Stain and Dallas, it was Tampa, it was Manhattan, we were looking at the, you know, certain areas in the Hamptons, or it was going to be Fort Lauderdale, or it was Newport Beach, and we were looking at the house. And then yesterday, can you play one of the clips? I sent you a clip of what was happening yesterday in Newport Beach. It almost doesn't look real. It's that one right there with the fellow reacting to it. That one right there, watch this, folks. This is Newport Beach. This is not New York City's Mamdani. This is not Echo Park. This is Newport Beach. Watch this, go for it.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:15)
This is the most insane footage I have ever seen.

**Adam Sosnick** (1:17)
Are those horses?

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:18)
Horses.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:19)
Shame on you.

**Adam Sosnick** (1:19)
What?

**SPEAKER_3** (1:20)
Actually, shame on the people that came to Newport to celebrate, or whatever you want to call it.

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:24)
I did a great job commenting.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:25)
As someone who has been in Newport the past few years on the 4th, something was off this year, and you could tell the second you stepped outside, hundreds of people being arrested, officers being injured, people throwing fireworks into crowds of people, looting pavilions and destroying everything inside. It was just disgusting.

**Adam Sosnick** (1:46)
Imagine this is your city.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:46)
Newport Beach can definitely get crazy during the 4th, just like any other big city, but never do you feel unsafe just walking by the beach, seeing people getting arrested left and right. And how to feeling something like this was going to happen just seeing some of the videos pop up on my page prior to this, but nothing like this. If you are a part of this, shame on you. Do better.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:05)
This is the most... Tom, you've been to Newport Beach many times. When you see something like this, like if I told you Monday morning, after 4th of July weekend, we were going to talk about a city that had 400 arrests, where would you have ranked Newport Beach on that list of cities you would have mentioned?

**Tom** (2:21)
Like, 5,000th.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:22)
That's right.

**Tom** (2:23)
I would have thought, oh, okay, so is this like a big college town where things are going crazy? Did it get crazy in Gainesville? Did it get crazy in South Central LA? And I'm not picking on Gainesville, but you know what I'm saying? If it was a college town...

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:36)
It's not like it's Freaknik. You know what I'm saying? Like places you would go to every year. This is like Newport Beach.

**Tom** (2:41)
Freaknik!

**SPEAKER_5** (2:41)
Don't get me started on Freaknik, PBD.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:43)
Yeah.

**Tom** (2:44)
I used to live in Newport Beach from 1990 to 2000 I lived down there two years.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:47)
It's a roller.

**Tom** (2:48)
On Jamboree, right off Jamboree. And near the mall there, affectionately known as Fascist Island.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:56)
La Forte Playa.

**Tom** (2:57)
And what was interesting is it was always well-patrolled. It was always really nice, the Corona-Domar area.
And when I see these pictures here, I'm shocked. I'm like, I know that area. I know this area. Where did all these people come from?

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:12)
In Farsi, they would say you were doing dukhdarbazi in Newport Beach. That's what they would say, dukhdarbazi. But please continue.

**Tom** (3:18)
Okay.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:19)
Only like 88 people that are watching this far as you will know in the comment section.

**Tom** (3:22)
Okay, apparently I was...

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:23)
Translate.

**Tom** (3:24)
I was the Duke of Qabarzi or whatever that means.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:26)
Dukhdarbazi.

**Tom** (3:27)
So what was interesting, what they said was, these unruly mobs started breaking into fights with each other at 7:30 PM. So the police didn't come to clear them out at 10.3 after fireworks. They were, police were getting reports, hey, they're starting to loot the stores. I saw that convenience store there. Those guys are stealing potato chips and running out the front. So people started calling and saying, hey, fights are on the beach. Something's going on here. There's groups that don't like each other banging into each other. And now they've come in trying to get beer, sodas and tearing up my mini mart and everything. That's when the police came out. It was so unruly, the police called for backup from equestrian support. So those were the police with horses that can come to a large disturbance, like on the beach, and they can come move into it. And so let's remember what happened here. Law enforcement didn't break up 4th of July.