 Charlotte police learning from the bedlam of last year's July 4th celebration, keeping things safer and under control this year. Uptown festivities going off much quieter this year. CMPD making 12 arrests, 10 of them juveniles, while seizing a gun, a few boxes of fireworks, and about a pound of marijuana. That's small potatoes compared to the chaos of 2023, a huge fight breaking out at Romare Bearden Park, resulting in more than