Bill Barlow

A video posted by Seacaucus police at the end of August seems disturbingly similar to those posted in Wildwood in 2022: a dimly lit and chaotic scene captured on a shaky cellphone video, engines revving, sirens blaring.

Someone shouts an expletive as a shower of sparks from a firework explode against a white emergency vehicle.

“It was a major problem. They were shooting fireworks at police. It was rampant craziness,” Assemblyman Antwan McClellan, R-Cape May, Cumberland, Atlantic, said Tuesday. “Nobody died, thankfully.”

McClellan cited the incident over Labor Day weekend as a sign that his legislation is still needed. McClellan introduced the legislation after a pop-up rally in Wildwood in 2022 overwhelmed emergency responders and left two people dead.

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