Saturday, 4 March 2017

$15 chapter protesters arrested 'with permission of McDonald's'

Wait, wut?!?

Police claimed they had “authorization from the president of McDonald’s” to arrest protesting fast food workers, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed on Wednesday against the city of Memphis, Tennessee.
The suit alleges that local police engaged in a “widespread and illegal campaign of surveillance and intimidation” against a local chapter of the Fight for $15 fast-food worker organization as it campaigned for an increase in the minimum wage and union rights for fast food workers.
Officers followed organizers home after meetings, ordered workers not to sign petitions and blacklisted organizers from city hall, according to the suit. They claimed to have been authorized by McDonald’s, the world’s largest fast food chain, and in one incident a McDonald’s franchisee joined police in tailing protesters.

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9 comments:

  1. -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew4 March 2017 at 11:58

    I wouldn't necessarily classify every allegation in a lawsuit as "news"... or even any sort of "fact"... they're simply allegations. Why would cops need a ceo's "permission" to do ANYTHING?

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    1. Gert4 March 2017 at 12:08

      Yet why would the cops get involved in what is essentially a potential wage dispute, unprompted?

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    2. -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew4 March 2017 at 12:42

      Perhaps the wage dispute were a "cover" for some other illicit behaviour worthy of police investigation? The best defense is often a good offense.

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    3. Gert4 March 2017 at 12:45

      Hmm... to 'false flag' for my liking...

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    4. -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew4 March 2017 at 12:47

      Seem to be a lot of that going round...

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  2. -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew4 March 2017 at 12:47

    btw - What do you think of the 'white nationalist" Charles Murray being Milo'd by student protestors in VT? How stupid is the Left in beliving Murray to be a White Nationalist. Bill Kristol is his bff... so nationalism is off the table. And I thought the racist charge would have been taken off the table after the anti-Bell Curve fiasco went kaput?

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    1. -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew4 March 2017 at 12:50

      Murray is a bit of a pompous ass, but he's no "white nationalist" even if idiots like white nationalist Steven Sailor quote him.

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    2. Gert4 March 2017 at 12:51

      Dunno really but there's too much of those 'White nationalist' charges going around. The term will lose all meaning, at this rate...

      And too many people reading a tweet and taking it as Gospel.

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    3. -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew4 March 2017 at 12:55

      erratum Richard Spencer, not Steve Sailor...

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