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Board members of the Free Church along with other Berkeley clergymen convinced the city to allow a July 4 celebration on Telegraph Avenue to cool down tensions in the city. During the previous week, police had forcibly cleared a rally on Telegraph Avenue. The clergy and Free Church violence intervention team linked arms and maintained separation between the police and the crowd. The police stopped and fired tear gas into the crowd. First aid stations at Cody's and the Free Church assisted the injured and gassed. While Brown directed people to the church, a policeman came up and beat him and the two young men with him to the ground with a night stick. The July 4 celebration, guaranteed by the local clergy, defused the growing antagonism between police and demonstrators. It marked one of the high points in the influence of the Free Church, the ministers in the South Campus area, and the merchants.
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