If you were in the vicinity of Grand and Broad or the Washington Street McDonald’s on Thursday morning you would have been unable to miss the large police presence.The Hartford Police Department arrested thirteen of the approximately 100 protestors in the Frog Hollow and South Green neighborhoods. The organized demonstration was intended to demand higher wages and the right for fast food workers to unionize.
Activists intended to be arrested, sitting in a roadway on Washington Street as a form of civil disobedience. After being given multiple orders to clear the roadway, arrests for disorderly conduct were made. The majority of those arrested were from Rhode Island; three gave addresses in Hartford, one New Britain, one Wethersfield, and one Bloomfield.
All of those arrested were given a Community Court appearance date of September 12, 2014.
