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Dozens of police have turned up for lunchtime protests, some equipped with stun guns.

"He's going to be essentially responsible for enforcing the same laws that he's been breaking for years," said Kendall Fells, national organizing director of the Fight for $15, a group advocating for a higher minimum wage that organized lunchtime protests Monday at CKE offices in St .Louis and Anaheim, Calif., as well as restaurant locations throughout the country.

In addition to the lunchtime protest at the Danny Meyer restaurants, Occupy protesters also joined recent picketing against Sotheby's outside the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

A lunchtime protest in San Francisco drew about 100 protesters, including Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and rapper M.C.

They were joined in the lunchtime protest by nonprofit advocacy groups and politicians including Stephen Levin of the City Council, who has sponsored legislation to reduce fines and the incidence of ticketing for vendors.

Police unions had called on officers, past and present, to attend a lunchtime protest in about 60 towns and cities following two months of often violent protests against controversial legislation introduced by the Socialist government.

Under the bemused gaze of the embassy's armed police officers, some protesters sported burkinis – swimsuits that cover the wearer's whole body, including her hair – or swimsuits, while others threw beach balls at the lunchtime protest.

There was a small strike a couple of weeks ago and several hundred staff staged a lunchtime protest outside the European commission on Wednesday complaining about the impact of proposed cuts on people "who provide the necessary human resources for achieving the union's tasks".

Workers in more than 30 US cities are planning to join a lunchtime protest at their local McDonald's stores on Thursday to draw attention to 15 different sexual complaints that have been filed against the company and its franchisees over the past month.

Earlier on Wednesday, members of the trade union Nipsa held a lunchtime protest outside the offices of the Department of Social Development.

About 20 people at a time took part in the lunchtime protest, with workers rotating in and out so they could get something to eat.