Black Friday shopping in US marred by violence

[xchrom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25151956

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There were several incidents of retail-related disorder across the US:

In Chicago, a police officer shot a suspected shoplifter driving a car that was dragging a fellow officer at a Kohl's department store. The suspect and the dragged officer were treated in hospital for shoulder injuries. Three people were arrested, reports the Chicago Tribune

A shopper in Las Vegas who was carrying a big-screen TV home from a Target store on Thanksgiving was shot in the leg as he tried to wrestle the item back from a robber who had just stolen it from him at gunpoint, reports the Las Vegas Sun

At a southern California Walmart store, a police officer's wrist was broken as he tried to break up a fight between two men in the queue outside; there were two more fights over goods inside, reports the San Bernadino Sun

A 23-year-old man was doused with pepper spray and arrested after he allegedly attacked a police officer responding to an argument over a television at a Walmart in Garfield, New Jersey, reports the Star-Ledger

Despite Walmart's pledge to overhaul its crowd-control measures, scenes of mayhem such as this one were apparently filmed at a store in Fort Worth, Texas

Two arrests were made after a man was stabbed in an argument over a parking space at a Walmart in Virginia, reports local television station WVVA

[monmouth3]

1. People acting like animals. Apologies to animals..n/t

[lake loon]

2. Why

Why would anyone shoplift at KOHL'S???

[Enrique]

3. marred?

i thought that was the point.

[mynaturalrights]

4. tis the season

[CFLDem]

5. The tradition continues!

[Sheri]

6. consumerist rubbernecking. yuck. nt