Did you guys read the actual article? I bolded some of the highlights:
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Even officers who arrived to perform CPR on the trampled worker were stepped on by wild-eyed shoppers streaming inside, a cop at the scene said.
"His body was a stepping bag with so much disregard for human life," Ernst Damour, 37, said. "There has to be some accountability."
Roughly 2,000 people gathered outside the Wal-Mart's doors in the predawn darkness.
Chanting "push the doors in," the crowd pressed against the glass as the clock ticked down to the 5 a.m. opening.
Sensing catastrophe, nervous employees formed a human chain inside the entrance to slow down the mass of shoppers.
"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, 'I've been on line since Friday morning!'" Cribbs said. "They kept shopping."
Items on sale at the Wal-Mart store included a $798 Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV, a Bissel Compact Upright Vacuum for $28 and Men's Wrangler Tough Jeans for $8.
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I never understood the concept of doorbuster sales. Why not have a solid sale that lasts the whole weekend? Nobody lines up at Best Buy or Wal*Mart to get anything other than the hot sale items. The idea is to get people into the stores to buy other things as well, but after doing four day after thanksgiving sales I can tell you first hand, on friday people just buy super sale items 90% of the time.
What the fuck is a stepping bag?
Do black people even wear wranglers?