Thousands of people gathered at Huntington Beach in California after a video invitation went viral on social media.

It all started with a TikTok user named Adrien who invited people to his “Birthday Kick Back”.

Police intervened to disperse a crowd that flocked to the beach as early as Friday night.

Complete chaos in downtown Huntington beach as a bunch of people have descended on the streets in a complete takeover and now we are locked in our hotel room because the police have used tear gas to disperse the crowd.

You see everyone running and the sound of what appears to be gun shots or something of that nature. We were down on the street heard what sounded like gun shots and everyone started running towards us. Having my dog we picked him up and just made it to our hotel before the crowd took over the streets and the police came in with tear gas. We were ordered to our room.