DETROIT (AP) — Police have ticketed two-dozen protesters who blocked traffic at a McDonald’s restaurant in Detroit as part of a national demonstration to push fast-food chains to pay their employees at least $15 an hour.
About 100 protesters marched through the parking lot of an east-side McDonald’s before dawn Thursday, shouting slogans and clogging the drive-thru lane. Some sat in the street, and officers handcuffed those who wouldn’t move.
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Detroit police say they ticketed 24 protesters for disorderly conduct and arrested six on traffic warrants.
Twenty-year-old Kaya Moody works at a McDonald’s elsewhere in the city and recently had her pay upped to $8.15 an hour. The single mother says $15 an hour would let her pay her bills on time.
Police also have arrested several protesters at a McDonald’s in Flint.
