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Sought: Wal-Mart shoppers who trampled NY worker
AP via Yahoo News ^ | Nov 29 , 2008 | COLLEEN LONG

Posted on 11/29/2008 5:27:02 AM PST by ETL

NEW YORK – Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down.

Criminal charges were possible, but identifying individual shoppers in Friday's video may prove difficult, said Detective Lt. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: longisland; walmart
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To: ETL

Showing the racial makeup of the crowd was a racist act.

< /sarc >


61 posted on 11/29/2008 6:17:51 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Tax-chick

It’s a sense of entitlement with no self esteem they have been taught. Makes you wonder where all the Jesse Jacksons, Obamas; etc have been all these years. They were suppose to help the people; not sink them any lower. Oh they will try and blame it on others; but it’s not true. Their alledged leaders have had many oppotunities and many years to correct the situation. But the sense of entitlement turned into the elitist who in reality can not be bothered with anyone other than themselves.


63 posted on 11/29/2008 6:19:23 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Can one see the elephant in the room.


64 posted on 11/29/2008 6:21:40 AM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: ETL
They weren't ALL animals. I'm sure there were lots of decent people in the crowd as well.

Missed the sarcasm tag, I see.

65 posted on 11/29/2008 6:23:11 AM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: stuartcr

It is called - scientific deduction!

When you support abortion rights - you generally disregard LIFE! Democrats for the most part - believe in abortion rights!

THESE people disregarded Life! Or they wouldn’t have KEPT on shopping!

The probable chances of them believing in women’s “rights” are high!

“It’s MY RIGHT to shop ‘cause - I have been here since . . .”

Palin/McCain are known to value life. A Palin/McCain voter would probably have stopped to help the young man.

This is all probable - Not concrete - BUT- the chances are higher that this was the mindset of these people!

That is the connection!


67 posted on 11/29/2008 6:24:16 AM PST by Anita1 ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I doubt that they voted for McCain and Palin during the election.

Conservatives can play the race card too, I see.

69 posted on 11/29/2008 6:25:25 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Anita1

Superb stretch for a sat morn, congrats.


70 posted on 11/29/2008 6:26:09 AM PST by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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To: ETL

There was a 50% off sale at a thrift store when I lived in Atlanta. The store was closed while they organized everything and there was a small indentation into the wall where the glass sliding doors where (it was a grocery store previously). There was such a crowd of people there clamoring to be the first in the door that they were pushing forward. I was crushed against the glass, my face smushed and it was getting hard to breath being wedged up against the glass. I was banging on the door in a panic to get the employees to open them, but I guess they thought I was just some crazy shopper who wanted to get in to get theh deals. I only wanted some cheap towels, I didn’t know it was going to be like this! At a thrift store! It was finally time to open and I almost fell down when they opened the doors because of all the pressure behind me. If I hadn’t of swooped around the corner once getting inside, I would have fell and probably been trampled. As it was, I don’t think I would have lasted much longer trying to breath being pressed up against the glass.

This is another reason I will never go to a Black Friday sale. That and my best friend getting a black eye from a 90 old lady in Walmart over a DVD player.

And people wonder why we don’t make laws in mob rule form.


72 posted on 11/29/2008 6:29:14 AM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: ETL

Color me surprised. I wouldn’t have guessed the makeup of the crowd rushing the Walmart...


73 posted on 11/29/2008 6:29:30 AM PST by steveyp
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To: stuartcr

“A 28-year-old pregnant woman was taken to a hospital, where she and the baby were reported to be OK, said police Sgt. Anthony Repalone.”

“The baby”? Since when did the pro-abort media start calling babies “baby”?

Ah, shouldn’t that read: “Where she and the viable tissue mass were reported to be OK”?


74 posted on 11/29/2008 6:29:35 AM PST by Nick Thimmesch
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To: 1rudeboy
I'm sure the fabled "race card" will be used by a wide spectrum of political views.

It will become increasingly common as we accelerate the social breakdown in this country and racial violence builds.

75 posted on 11/29/2008 6:30:30 AM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: FunkyZero

No flaming here. That ‘bringing over the slaves’ comment was outrageous and stupid.

This is an AMERICA issue. And I know it gets CRAZY here at Walmart on BF morning in my neck of the woods that voted all red. This is a crazed mob issue, not a race issue.


76 posted on 11/29/2008 6:32:07 AM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: Nick Thimmesch

That’s good. Yesterday they were saying the pregnant woman had miscarried.


77 posted on 11/29/2008 6:33:01 AM PST by Tax-chick ("And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day." (Is. 2)
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To: autumnraine

I believe that Wal Mart is at fault for having these type of “sales” in the first place. it sounds like they should have known a few things here... And were willfully negligent.
I hope that man’s family sues them for $500 Million.


78 posted on 11/29/2008 6:34:40 AM PST by DOGHEAD
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To: Thumper1960

“They weren’t ALL animals. I’m sure there were lots of decent people in the crowd as well.”

No need to insult animals by associating them with these sub-humanoids.


79 posted on 11/29/2008 6:35:50 AM PST by Nick Thimmesch
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To: Tanniker Smith
Sick. I’m about a half hour from that place. Not the greatest of neighborhoods to begin with, which is why I stopped going to the Green Acres Mall, which is right next door, across the parking lot.

Walmart got its start in rural and suburban America, and only fairly recently started expanding into urban areas.

Walmart may want to re-think the idea of having store specials which attract hordes of unruly urban underclass shoppers.

80 posted on 11/29/2008 6:36:26 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Question O-thority)
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