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Perfect Park
So many of the so-called least radicals were fed up that on June
 10th,
there was a massive sit-in at Isla Vista's Perfect Park to protest
the right to peaceful demonstration.
Perfect Park was a large, undeveloped parcel of land at the top of the Loop where Embarcadero del Mar meets Embarcadero del Norte. It had been a major gathering place for several years, accommodating live bands and anti-war speeches on most weekends. However, this property was privately owned by a Santa Monica physician, who seldom visited it and seldom protested its unofficial status as the primary gathering place in downtown Isla Vista.
Over 1,500 people participated in a sit-in at Perfect Park on
June 10, 1970 in intentional violation of a curfew issued by police.
Police charged near sunset, tear-gassing most people off the property,
but many were dragged off and arrested by the police. The police
then expanded their operations from the downtown area into the
residential portions of Isla Vista. At the end of the day, 390
people had been arrested and carted off to the County jail.
It was such an egregious act, that Joseph Lodge, the Municipal
Court Judge reviewing the case, released all those arrested the
following morning.
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