Protesting against the Criminal Justice Bill, young people tried to enter the recently closed Penultimate Picture Palace cinema, and as a decoy squatted an empty nurses home in East Avenue. The police came in force in riot gear to evict the East Avenue squat and arrested people. 50 people went to St Aldates police station to demand their release, filling the foyer and playing didgeridoo. The police evicted them from the foyer using a fire extinguisher, then formed a line across St Aldates and began a baton charge, later arresting some protestors who had run down side streets. All were eventually acquitted thanks to video evidence and the illegality of the squat bust. But no resistance was then put up when the Penultimate Picture Palace was entered and a free cinema named Section 106 operated through the month of September