What could go wrong? Black Friday, WalMart, police, and pepper spray

[proud2BlibKansan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKAgy-lTs0&feature=youtu.be

We were shopping at Walmart in Kinston, NC. People began grabbing for things ahead of time and pushing each other. The police sprayed pepper spray into the crowd. Children, elderly and disabled people were in the area but police sprayed nondiscriminatly. Many had to be taken to the hospital due to reactions from being sprayed.

[CanSocDem]

1. Finally! A legitimate target.

Unhinged, mindless consumers....


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[SammyWinstonJack]

4. hehehe

:evilgrin:

[Robb]

8. Yeah, poor people getting sprayed is pretty funny.

Hilarious.

[mmonk]

2. Pepper spray: It's not just only for the 1st amendment anymore.

[Fumesucker]

3. Yep, now it's for the Zeroth Amendment..

"The right of the people to shop shall be in no way at no time infringed, however slightly."

[Capitalocracy]

5. Uh-oh. They done fucked up now.

All of a sudden people are REALLY going to have some questions about pepper spray, once they start using it on Wal-Mart shoppers and not just them dirty hippies.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Apparently Wal-Mart shoppers are using it on other Wal-Mart shoppers who cut in line.

[Capitalocracy]

10. Link?

Wow.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. Here's one.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/25/9012057-black-friday-violence-2-shot-in-armed-robberies-15-others-pepper-sprayed
An angry woman used pepper spray when Black Friday bargain-hunters tried to cut in line at a crowded Wal-Mart store in Los Angeles late Thursday, leaving 15 people with minor injuries. The incident occurred shortly after 10:20 p.m. PT (1:20 a.m. ET Friday) in the San Fernando Valley as shoppers looking for deals were let inside the outlet.
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Shawn Lenske, a Los Angeles fire department spokesman, said the injuries were due to "rapid crowd movement."

[Capitalocracy]

14. Rapid crowd movement indeed.

That woman needs to go to jail. Someone could've easily ended up trampled to death.

[HopeHoops]

7. Well that's just not fair. They didn't get any 84 year old or pregnant women?

:sarcasm:

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Another food-fight, eh? Just good old holiday fun run amok.

[UTUSN]

11. Taser, in my area. n/t

[durablend]

12. Nothing to see here, folks...

Police saw a crowd "occupying" somewhere and decided to take action (since they were surrounded by the dangerous mob)

[lunatica]

15. Thank you Ms. Cheesehead for putting up a good fight

She and many others will be better prepared for this in the future. Have groups of recall petitioners together but some should just hang around ready for photo and documentation activity. Evidently the man thought only the people manning the tables were the recall group.

Thanks Ms. Cheesehead for writing this and thank youproud2BlibKansan for posting it here.