Also a living wage. Those protesters chanted and waved signs earlier this evening. This is a photo posted to social media of what happened next. You can see a line of Police Moving towards the crowd. Several demonstrators were arrested. Some say they were taken away in at least two buses. Dozens ended up downtown here at the jail. We talked with a couple of protesters that were arrested. One of them tells us shes a mother of three trying to survive on minimum wage. The other says we more of these kinds of demonstrations in the future. Its hard trying to survive, like i said i have three jobs just to try and make ends meet, and i still dont be able to with having to pay rent, lights water, and cell phone bills and trying to take care of my children. Its hardworking and living on nothing but minimum wage. Well be in the streets more and more and getting arrested more and more to show people struggles to worker struggles. Reporter william barber, the president of the state chapter of the
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