Surveillance video at a Southeast Oak Cliff gas station shows people recklessly setting off what looks like fireworks or other explosives in the parking lot.
This came to our attention from people who live in the area who are angry that, from their perspective, police did not do much to break it up.It lasted multiple hours and police were in the area, but it’s unclear if DPD actually got out and ordered the crowd to disperse. Surveillance video from the Hi-Mart Gas Station in Highland Hills showed the hours-long barrage of fireworks being shot at passing cars and people in the parking lot late Monday night into early Tuesday.
The fireworks disrupted traffic and set off multiple fires, but the criminal mischief didn’t stop there. Firefighters responded to hundreds of grass fires on July Fourth holiday"I said my grass looks terrible, I am just glad my church didn’t catch on fire," she said. Some videos circulating online do show police entering the parking lot of the gas station, but witnesses said police didn’t stop there to break up the crowd. "They said, yes, they were patrolling the area, but it was about 400 young people saying they were having a field day. They were outnumbered," she said.
"I am not going to say they are doing wrong or right, they are doing what they are doing in the world today," Karon Annette Whitehead said.
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