Seems like they were having a party. College studens+partying=copious amounts of alcohol.

they started firing fireworks at cops, cops wanted to arrest them, they went buck wild and flipped over a car and rushed the cops.

Sounds like drunk dummies being drunk assholes. Now we also had a summer of love where riots were praised, and the entire media and political establishment have been shitting on cops and basically telling people to not listen to them.

So it shouldn't come as a shock that a bunch of drunk college teens went wild when some cops tried to break up their party.

Now was this the football and basketball team, or the chess club?