Violent Incidents of Black Friday

VIOLENT INCIDENTS OF BLACK FRIDAY

Note: The below information is related with the posting, Don't Know Where to Die.

This year Black Friday (Nov 29, 2013) was tragically marred by several incidents:

(a) A police officer was injured trying to break up a fight between shoppers who were brawling in the parking lot. The fight was about who was ahead in line (California).

(b) In Chicago, police shot a man believed to be involved in a shoplifting incident after authorities found him driving a car that was dragging another officer.

(c) One man stabbed another with a knife during an argument over a parking space Thursday night at Walmart (West Virginia).

(d) A shopper was pepper-sprayed by the police and arrested Thursday evening (New Jersey). A heated dispute with a fellow shopper over a television led to an argument with a Walmart manager. After the manager called for help, the shopper attacked an officer.

Then there was the usual huge crowds, pushing, shoving, and all-night shopping etc.

In years past, one shoplifter was beaten to death, shoppers engaged in a heinous pepper-spraying incident & shootings, store employees were crushed to death by stampeding customers, and other violent acts - all done in the quest for discounted shopping.

To learn more about this an gain a graphic understanding, please read below...

Black Friday Violence Erupts Across Country
By Sean Piccoli and Post Wires
November 29, 2013 | 6:43am

Welcome to Brawl-Mart.

Mayhem erupted at big-box stores across the USA as frenzied shoppers vying for holiday deals turned on each other and resorted to violence to get their goods.

Reports of retail assaults, shootings and arrests piled up so fast that by Thursday night, Black Friday already had a trending Twitter hashtag: #WalmartFights.

Adding to the insanity, a Wal-Mart in White Plains was hit with a phony bomb threat on Friday afternoon. Two anonymous bomb-scare calls to the store on Main Street at about 12:30 p.m. prompted a full evacuation, and police used bomb-sniffing dogs to sweep the property, said White Plains Police Chief James Bradley. Shoppers and employees were allowed back inside at 2:10 p.m., said Bradley.

And it wasn’t just Wal-Mart going nuts. A cop at a Kohl’s store outside of Chicago shot a would-be shoplifter who fled in his car — and dragged another officer who was halfway into the vehicle across the parking lot, said police in Romeoville, Illinois. The Thursday night incident led to three arrests and a trip to the hospital for the shot driver and the dragged officer – both of whom, incredibly, sustained only minor injuries....

5 Graphic Black Friday Videos From Today:

The Violence That Erupted

Here below is a link to the above article and features 5 video clips of the madness and chaos that takes place on Black Friday.

http://nypost.com/2013/11/29/cop-shoots-shoplifter-near-chicago-amid-black-friday-chaos-others-hurt-around-country/