The Detroit News: Thousands protest outside GE shareholders meeting in Detroit
Posted on Wed, Apr 25, 2012 : 12:09 p.m.
Several thousand protesters showed up at GE's annual shareholder meeting in downtown Detroit Wednesday morning to demand that the company pay more in taxes, The Detroit News reported.
Three dozen were escorted out of the meeting after they stood up and chanted, “pay your fair share.”
Dozens of police were holding demonstrators back outside the Renaissance Center, where the meeting was being held, the newspaper reported.
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