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Omaha Steve

(99,635 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 08:54 AM Sep 2014

Photo: Police in riot gear guard the entrance of McDonald's corporate campus (on strike day)


LBN strike story here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014887801


Extra info here: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fast-food-workers-strike-20140903-story.html



Scott Olson / Getty Images

Police guard the entrance of McDonald's corporate campus as about 2,000 fast-food workers and activists seeking higher wages march toward the Oak Brook, Ill., complex in May.

What is McDonald's afraid of?

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Photo: Police in riot gear guard the entrance of McDonald's corporate campus (on strike day) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Sep 2014 OP
Overkill maybe? n/t 7wo7rees Sep 2014 #1
Overkill Always otohara Sep 2014 #6
Pathetic. Rex Sep 2014 #2
It looks like they have a sense of how angry they have made people. lpbk2713 Sep 2014 #3
Our Police are supposed to serve and protect us CanonRay Sep 2014 #4
This! BrotherIvan Sep 2014 #5
well f*ing said ProfessorPlum Sep 2014 #7
you might want to research that one onethatcares Sep 2014 #8
I know historically this has been the case CanonRay Sep 2014 #9

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
3. It looks like they have a sense of how angry they have made people.
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 10:02 AM
Sep 2014



And they need to protect themselves against their own malevolence.

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
5. This!
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 11:42 AM
Sep 2014

Look at them, dolled up in their riot gear. Had anyone done anything to warrant such a response? Or was this in an anticipation of people marching with signs? I hope many more write articles about what this means, because basically the police are now the security guards of the rich--paid for by your taxes. The 1% should have to pay for their own Pinkertons.

onethatcares

(16,168 posts)
8. you might want to research that one
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 01:42 PM
Sep 2014

the military, the police, the national guard, the railroad police and the rest have always been for the 1%.

CanonRay

(14,101 posts)
9. I know historically this has been the case
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 03:17 PM
Sep 2014

for example the Haymarket "Riots" in Chicago, but that doesn't make it right. WE pay them. The 1% try to pay as little as they can get away with.

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