Officers responded around 9 p.m. to the sideshow at Fremont and Harrison streets.
Video shows a car doing donuts in the middle of the intersection.
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At one point you can see fireworks go off.
When police arrived, all of the cars drove off.
No one was hurt and no one was arrested.
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