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

[Omaha Steve]

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



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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?

[7wo7rees]

1. Overkill maybe? n/t

[otohara]

6. Overkill Always

Murika

[Rex]

2. Pathetic.

Then again I would have to be famished to eat one of their McBurgers. I like real food.

[lpbk2713]

3. It looks like they have a sense of how angry they have made people.

And they need to protect themselves against their own malevolence.

[CanonRay]

4. Our Police are supposed to serve and protect us

not be the tools and guardians of the 1%

[BrotherIvan]

5. This!

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.

[ProfessorPlum]

7. well f*ing said

[onethatcares]

8. you might want to research that one

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

[CanonRay]

9. I know historically this has been the case

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.