One night before the voting began, Garner police arrested an Amazon Labor Union leader who had come from New York to support the union campaign. “What we hear from people in all departments, in all shifts, is that Amazon is painting CAUSE as a Black union and saying, ‘All the Black folks are lazy and the Hispanics are the ones that work the hardest, and the union is only trying to protect lazy people.’” A week before the union vote, an Amazon manager claimed the union had told workers they could be deported if they vote no—a claim Medelius-Marsano characterized as “absolutely disgusting” and “a complete falsity.”