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Beloved Disney Characters seen arrested outside Disneyland

by Barry Artiste | August 15, 2008 at 04:31 am

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Wow, what a great way to traumatize children who are visiting Disneyland, when Strikers dressed as Disney’s favourite characters are seen being led away in plastic handcuffs by police outside the grounds of Disney World.

Certainly not the Happiest Place on Earth as we would like to believe.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/08/15/pf-6460971.html

August 15, 2008

32 protesters arrested outside Disneyland

By By GILLIAN FLACCUS, AP

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Cinderella, Snow White, Tinkerbell and other fictional fixtures of modern-day childhood were handcuffed, frisked and loaded into police vans Thursday at the culmination of a labor protest that brought a touch of reality to the Happiest Place on Earth.

The arrest of the 32 protesters, many of whom wore costumes representing famous Disney characters, came at the end of an hour-long march to Disneyland’s gates from one of three Disney-owned hotels at the center of a labor dispute.

Those who were arrested sat in a circle on a busy intersection outside the park holding hands until they were placed in plastic handcuffs and led to two police vans while hundreds of hotel workers cheered and chanted.

The protesters were arrested on a misdemeanor count of failure to obey a police officer and two traffic infractions, said Sgt. Rick Martinez of the Anaheim police.

They were cited and released, Sgt. Chris Schneider said.

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