3 arrested at Denver protest outside McDonald’s

Three people have been arrested in Denver while protesting in favor of raises for fast food workers.

A pastor, a McDonald’s worker and another man who supported the cause sat down in the middle of Colfax Avenue outside a McDonald’s near the state Capitol on Thursday. They were taken into custody to cheers from protesters after police warned that they would be arrested.

Dozens of protesters were also arrested in some of the other 150 cities across the country where fast food workers and their backers demonstrated in favor of paying them $15 an hour.

Before the arrests, about 100 people marched along the sidewalk chanting “Hold the burger, hold the fries, make our wages supersize.”

Protesters also demonstrated at another Denver McDonald’s earlier in the day but no one was arrested.