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File #: 21-427 MEETING DATE: 6/1/2021
Public Safety Update on Unlawful Assembly
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Viral Three-Day TikTok Event in
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Viral Three-Day TikTok Event Background
• Tuesday, May 18: HBPD First Learned of "Adrian's Kickback Party" No
Location Provided
• Thursday, May 20: First
Reference to HB (Tower 13)
• 3-Day Event: Fri in HB,
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Preparation Efforts
• Planning / Contingency Put in Place
• Monitoring of Activity on the Site
• Specific Deployment Established for
Friday, May 21s'
• Expected Attendance: 400-500
• Actual: 500; Unlawful Assembly Declared
Due to Unruly / Unlawful Behavior
Saturday, May 21 , 2021
• The Information available indicated Saturday's
event was to occur outside of HB
• HBPD Investigations Personnel notified Santa
Ana PD of a potential house party in their city s
• Similar sized crowd as Friday arrived near
Tower 131Right at 6:30 P.M.
• By 6:00 p.m., thousands more descended upon
the pier & Downtown Area
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• Between Friday & Saturday. post views grew
into the millions
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Saturday, May 21 , 2021 - Mutual Aid
• While simultaneously addressing the crowd at Tower 13, HBPD resources began responding to
reports of illegal fireworks being ignited, and large crowds assembling downtown. Social media
fueled further interest, "Live Streamers" paid to promote these types of events were actively sharing
it.
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Saturday, May 21 , 2021 - Unlawful Assembly
Rocks, Bottles, Fireworks Mortars thrown at officers
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Saturday, May 21 , 2021 - Over 150 Arrests
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Saturday, May 21 , 2021 - Property Damage
• 3 HB Patrol Cars spray painted
• 1 HB Patrol Car with windows smashed
• 3 Allied Agency Patrol Cars vandalized
• Graffiti to Storefronts in 300 block Main Street
• Heavy Anti-Police graffiti in 300 block Main Street
• Graffiti to Condo Complex at 200 PCH
• Graffiti to Storefronts along PCH side of Pacific City
• Vandalism to Art Display in Pier Plaza
ALTHOUGH THERE WAS UNFORTUNATELY DAMAGE TO BUSINESSES, NO
SERIOUS CRIMES
NO INJURIES REPORTED TO POLICE
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Sunday, May 22, 2021
• Information Indicated Crowds Returning to HB
• Based on Saturdays Activity. Larger Deployment / Modified Posture
• Mutual Aid Established
• Crowd Smaller 300-400
• Over 29 Arrests (Adults & Juveniles)
NO PROPERTY DAMAGE REPORTED
NO INJURIES REPORTED TO PD
NO SERIOUS CRIMES
Next Steps
• Detective Personnel continue to examine video and other evidence to bring prosecutions
• Meetings with Business Owners & Stakeholders
• Follow-Up with TikTok Management in Culver City They are Complicit
• Internal Debrief Lessons Learned /Action Items
I Tactics
II Training
III Equipment
IV Policy
V Command & Control
VI Post - Event Community Recovery
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Questions
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Moore, Tania
From: Donald Slaven <eyes9@vehzon.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2021 9:34 PM
To: supplementalcomm@surfcity-hb.org
Subject: Mayor&City Council-- May 22, 2021 Tic Tok Beach Party and Riot
Attachments: HB City Council Tic-Toc Beach Party 5.22.21.docx
Attached Word doc
Please send to Mayor and City Council Members
Thank you
SUPPLEMENTAL
COMMUNICATION
Moody 0 i»: (o 11 J w I
Agenda IUm No.:
5-23-21
Mayor Carr and Huntington Beach City Council Members
Subject: May 22, 2021 Tic-Toc Beach Party and Chaos
We have lived on Alabama Street for 41 years, and by far, the Social Media Beach
Party and following major disturbance which lasted until around 1 AM, was the WORST
night we've experienced. It is not even Memorial Weekend, and we have a dire warning
of what's coming in the next 5 months!
Rather than detail the suffering sirens, incessant helicopter noise, fireworks, and young
people roaming our streets until 3 AM, I'll get directly to my questions:
How could something like this happen, when officials, citizens and apparently millions of
social media followers knew exactly where this event was to take place?
Why wasn't our City Council and public safety officials prepared for this 10-hour
disruption to downtown area residents, and recovering business owners?
Why, after the embarrassing and disgraceful outsider political disruptions of 2020, are
there still major "DISTURBING THE PEACE" events allowed to paralyze our beaches
and downtown neighborhoods?
Here are some suggestions you might consider:
Close the beaches at 9 PM
Close Main Street Bars at 10 PM
Re-evaluate your continuing marketing of our main beach as a never-ending CIRCUS
Dig deep, and show some respect for longtime residents who pay their taxes for their
rights to some peace, security and safety. This is insulting to us.
Since I never get a return contact by our elected officials to my letters, in this case I
really want to hear from you regarding these issues I have raised.
(As I write this, starting at 8:30 pm tonight (Sunday), the helicopter began constant
circling of downtown, with loudspeaker blaring and now fireworks starting.)
Sincerely,
Donald Slaven 225 Alabama St. 92648 714-536-1220