A massive middle finger to the Calif liberal elite.
Of course, most of those fireworks were likely being set off by Mexican descent people, who are not so easily cowed by government.
I once lived in Paramount CA. There were only two AngleO families on the entire length of that street.
We were right across the Los Angeles river from Compton.
If INS now(ICE) had come through the entire few blocks probably would have been decimated.
Every Sunday the kids in their best clothes would go to Church with mom and dad.
A kid came by the house every work day with a Red wagon full of Tamales
for $0.50 each.
No drugs. No crime. No cops.
Mexicans celebrate the 4th like nobody's business.
They get all the fireworks from family in Mexico.
Cops just don't go to those neighborhoods.
When they do, at least in that neighborhood
it was three cops to the car.