Early Sunday morning, a Boston police cruiser was set ablaze during a chaotic car meet-up at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Tremont Street in the South End, where over 100 people and several vehicles blocked the area. The situation escalated when a crowd attacked the cruiser with fireworks, cones, and a 20-foot pole, leading to the vehicle catching fire, which was later extinguished by the Boston Fire Department. Two Rhode Island men, Julian Bowers, 18, of Cumberland, and William C