Their arrests followed a rally against cheap goods and corporate greed by Teamsters, community members, church representatives and singing grannies.
Then came Los Angeles, where 21 people, including nine Walmart employees, were arrested, according to the Huffington Post. Seven hundred Walmart strikers and supporters rallied outside of the company's Los Angeles headquarters, demanding Walmart pay them enough to support their families.
Los Angeles police said the arrests were for
"suspicion of failure to disperse."In Sacramento, nine
Walmart workers and supporters were arrested.
CBS 13 reported:
As police arrested the protesters outside Cesar Chavez Plaza for civil disobedience, others yelled out “Hero.”
A Walmart flack told the news media that the protesters weren't Walmart employees. Surprise! That was a lie.
San Francisco protesters took arrests after a rally outside the Four Seasons hotel in San Francisco, where Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO and Walmart board member, has a penthouse apartment, according to
The Guardian. You can see at least four people getting arrested for sitting on the sidewalk
here, but another photo indicates there were eight. The San Francisco news media didn't think multiple arrests in a nationwide protest against the country's largest employer was worth mentioning (though the Chronicle did pick up an
AP story about the Sacramento arrests. Nice going.).
Seven were arrested in Orlando for blocking an entrance to a Walmart, according to the
Orlando Business Journal.
In Chicago, a
brief video shows eight people -- including a woman who uses a wheelchair -- being arrested, but we're not sure, as the Chicago media appears to be as lame as San Francisco.
Outside of Washington, D.C., in Hyattsville, Md., three Walmart workers and three supporters were arrested for civil disobedience and held over night -- according to a Twitter feed from @ChangeWalmart. The local
NBC News report said they were arrested for blocking traffic.
In Dallas,
11 protesters were arrested and removed from Skillman Ave. after they blocked traffic.
Watch The Ed Show segment on the protests below (but first you'll have to watch news about a panda and auto sales).