Santa Barbara, June 14, 2025
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I’ve been reluctant to read, listen, or talk about the direction our country has been heading in the last few months but I can show up to this protest and just by being there count in some minuscule way to registering my objections.
Local news reports on the protest from the day after;
These photos are from the State Street area (where Stearns Wharf meets the shore) where there were a lot more people than where I was.
Published crowd estimates range from 4,000 to 18,000. My estimates are consistent. A single line of people standing gently shoulder to shoulder (about 2½ feet apart, say) would require about 2000 people for the 5080 ft length of our area. I’d say we were at least 2 layers of people deep at the east end of the area where I was, implying a crowd of at least 4000. At the intersection of State Street and E. Cabrillo Blvd. the density of bodies was considerably higher; effectively 5 layers deep? 10 layers? Mathematical extrapolations are notoriously fraught. I’m fine with 4000 to 18,000, with 10,000 to 12,000 being a best-guess average.
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