Posted on 12/22/2012 7:29:44 AM PST by crosshairs
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A Fort Worth shoe store may think better of its first-come-first-serve policy after a small riot occurred surrounding the release of the new Retro Air Jordan shoes.
The Shoe Palace at Hulen Mall decided to let people line up to buy the shoes. A line formed around 5:00 a.m. and at one point the pushing and shoving in the crowd knocked over a couple police officers working as security.
“At that point the mall security officer sprayed a short burst of mace (pepper spray) into the crowd,” Fort Worth police Sergeant Pedro Criado explained. “The Fort Worth officer that got knocked down to the ground, he sprayed a short burst of mace into the crowd as well.”
Most stores across North Texas used a voucher system to sell the shoes and there were reportedly no problems at those locations. Sergeant Criado thinks the approach is safer. “It’s like a lottery system – you get a voucher and your name gets drawn, then you get the opportunity to pick up your shoes within 24 hours,” he said. “Yes, I think that’s a better system. It’ll avoid any crowds from gathering and any riots from occurring.”
The pepper spray dispersed the crowd and didn’t end with anyone hurt. “There were no reported injuries,” Criado said. “The officer did not get transported to the hospital, basically just scrapes and bruising from getting knocked down.”
Fort Worth police made no arrests in regard to the incident.
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I doubt there is half a brain in that entire crowd.....
Ugly shoes prove small tings amuse small minds.
It is the same culture that shot 446 school age children in Chicago this year.
Why would anyone riot over butt ugly shoes that I wouldn’t wear even if someone gave them to me?
“Is it just me or is there some sort of weird commonality to these stories?”
YEs; apparently instead of normal entrances they all seem to use livestock chutes.
Thanks for taunting me with pictures showing where my taxes are being spent...
wow that looks like whole bunch Obama’s sons and whole extended family
Martin Luther King would be proud of content of their character, I bet
What kind of pepper goes into that pepper spray. Is it black, habanero, white or is it multicultural?
I think that high-priced athletic shoes must need some sort of laws to control their availability, as the sale of them seems to lead to violent confrontations. Shoe control now!
I remember Keds and PF Flyers... you could “run faster” and “jump higher”
Somehow the commercial made me think you could actually fly if you were wearing these and I wanted them sooooooooooo bad~!!!!!
Did anyone have a video from the checkout line? How many use their EBT cards?
The dependant class is becoming awful ungrateful- demanding more and more. When their socialist paradise is instituted there WILL BE forced labor - From each according to his abilities applies to ALL
Somehow the commercial made me think you could actually fly if you were wearing these and I wanted them sooooooooooo bad~!!!!!
If that era’s culture was the same as today’s, you would have simply taken them from someone else. The fact that you wanted them would have been adequate justification.
Thanks for reminding me of PF Flyers.
Had to Google what the shoes looked like. First, they are singularly unattractive and second, they’re just shoes. Really people, over shoes???!!!
Marketing people are Wall-Bound when the revolution starts.
If you had a pair of these and one of these "people" were to kill you to steal them, it would be a better excuse than most have, nowadays...
When the Nike Air Jordan XI was released, there was fighting, stabbing, gunfire, and other recreation at malls and stores in Orlando, Lithonia (GA), Richmond (CA), Richmond (VA), Indianapolis, San Antonio, and Charlotte.
I'm sure I missed a few.
That is the whole shocking mindset...the mind reels...as to make one almost speechless.
Really, what is is with blacks and tennis shoes? Huh? WTF?
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