WISN in Wisconsin is reporting that U.S.Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI)?was?detained by police along with 26 other protesters near?a McDonald’s in West Milwaukee. Moore was protesting with fast food workers who are seeking higher wages. Reportedly, Moore and others were “disrupting traffic.”
Moore’s communications director Eric Harris tweeted this from Rep. Moore’s Twitter account:
Reporter Mike Anderson reports that Rep. Moore was bound with plastic wrist restraints and placed into the back of a patrol car. A police officer told Anderson that Moore and the other protesters were being detained so that police could “get them out of the street.”
The Wisconsin protest is one of many that are going on across the U.S. as fast food workers rally in efforts to try to force fast food restaurants to pay their workers a living wage of $15 per hour.
From Rep. Moore’s Thursday Facebook post:
Rep. Moore has been released from custody and gave this statement, citing iconic civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis.
“There is an egregious flaw in our economy where there is 900 percent as much pay for corporate CEOs as minumum wage workers,” Moore told WISN 12 News reporter Colleen Henry after her release from custody. “I’m taking the advice of collegaues [sic] like John Lewis who said ‘You really do have to put yourself in the way.’ You have to put your body in the way, your freedom in the way, your comfort in the way in order to articulate this issue.” She added “I thought it was important to elevate this issue and raise consciousness.”
Moore was issued a $691 ticket for her “offense.”
Read more at the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel or watch the video below. You can show your support for Rep. Gwen Moore on her Facebook page or via Twitter.
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