State troopers remove pro-labor protesters from Senate Commerce Committee meeting in Nashville -pics

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State troopers work to remove pro-labor protesters who had disrupted a Senate Commerce Committee meeting in Nashville, Tenn. , on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Seven protesters were later charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.


State troopers work to remove pro-labor protesters who had disrupted a Senate Commerce Committee meeting in Nashville, Tenn. , on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Seven protesters were later charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.


A state trooper pulls a pro-labor protesters who had disrupted a Senate Commerce Committee meeting in Nashville, Tenn. , on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Seven protesters were later charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.


Protesters lock arms to try to avoid being dragged out of a Senate Commerce Committee meeting in Nashville, Tenn. , on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Seven protesters were later charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.



Iron worker Kenneth Brown of Chattanooga waves a flag at a labor rally outside the Capitol in Nashville, Tenn. on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Hundreds of protesters joined the rally to speak out against a Republican bill seeking to strip teachers of their collective bargaining rights.