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Susan Sarandon has been arrested.
The 76-year-old Oscar winner and political activist was among eight people arrested while protesting in support of fair wages for restaurant workers on Monday (May 8) at the New York state Capital in Albany, New York.
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Susan was taken into custody along with former New York lieutenant governor candidate Ana Maria Archila, Spectrum News 1 Albany reports.
According to WNYT-TV, Susan and the others were booked, issued appearance tickets, and then released.
Susan went to Albany to push for legislation that would increase the minimum wage of tipped restaurant workers. New York leaders are set to increase the state’s minimum wage to $17 an hour, but the One Fair Wage nonprofit says that tipped workers are excluded from the legislation.
This isn’t the first time Susan has been arrested during a protest.
In 2018, she was arrested for protesting then-President Donald Trump‘s immigration policy.
