Culture | November 25, 2011 | 72 comments

Woman pepper sprays other Black Friday shoppers in L.A.

source: http://news.yahoo.com/woman-pepper-sprays-other-black-friday-shoppers-110009506.html

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JanforGore
A woman shot pepper spray to keep shoppers from merchandise she wanted during a Black Friday sale, and 20 people suffered minor injuries, authorities said.

The incident occurred shortly after 10:20 p.m. Thursday in a crowded Los Angeles-area Walmart as shoppers hungry for deals were let inside the store.

Police said the suspect shot the pepper spray when the coverings over the items she wanted were removed.

"Somehow she was trying to use it to gain an upper hand," police Lt. Abel Parga told The Associated Press early Friday.

He said she was apparently after some electronics and used the pepper spray to keep other shoppers at bay.

Officials said 20 people suffered minor injuries. Fire department spokesman Shawn Lenske said the injuries to least 10 of them were due to " rapid crowd movement."

Parga said police were still looking for the woman.

The store remained open and those not affected by the pepper spray continued shopping.
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72 comments // Woman pepper sprays other Black Friday shoppers in L.A.

  • JanforGore
  • mitekillem
    • 0
      mitekillem  
    • JanforGore:

      Gee, make's you wonder why no charges where brought up. Possibly because if they convict her of "assault" then pepper-spray usage state-wide would be considered assault. And the cops love their pepper.

    • 6 months ago
  • cherry5000
  • savvy7
  • CalgarC
  • Me3zzeyi
  • HarukoHaruhara
  • artemis6
    • 0
      artemis6  

    • Horrid woman .... i stayed home all day . Really wally world is not cheaper ....and it certainly isn't worth doing that ... look around !

    • 6 months ago
  • dudefromtherock
  • letsliveinpeace
  • Plue
  • TheForeteller
    • -5
      TheForeteller  

    • http://mynorthwest.com/11/582322/Inconsistencies-in-protestors-miscarriage-claim

      Occupy Seattle protestor Jennifer Fox has publicly levied a serious
      claim against the Seattle Police Department; that two officers are
      responsible for the death of her unborn child. But now, as her claim is
      called into question and new information about the 19-year-old surfaces,
      she may come out of the ordeal being perceived as much more than a
      troubled teen desperate for attention.

      97.3 KIRO FM has learned that Fox was once suspected of trying to lure two young children away from their mother. In a police report dated August 3, 2011,
      a mother stated a young woman had approached her daughters at Seattle's
      Pritchard Beach Park during a swimming lesson. Police sources confirm
      that woman was Fox.

      "(The mother) stated she observed (Fox) approach her children as they
      made their way from the lake to her car," read the report. "(The mother)
      stated she could tell that (Fox) was asking the children questions by
      the way they were acting."

      When the mother confronted Fox, Fox stated she was a swimming coach in Bellevue and was offering the children lessons.

      "Fox stated she had just returned from Greece where she had won every
      event she had entered in a swim meet," according to the report. The
      girls told their mother Fox had asked them to leave with her, and had
      offered them a ride if they came to Bellevue to swim with her.

      Lifeguards at the facility decided to call police, who questioned Fox upon arrival.

      "(Fox) stated she had been trained as a swimming coach while on the
      'Special Olympics team.' (Fox) stated she had 48 gold medals."

      Officers determined Fox "may be suffering from a mental illness or drug
      addiction," and allowed her to leave, with the condition that she not
      return to the park. But, the incident adds to the growing suspicion that
      Fox was not pregnant during the clash with Seattle police last week
      that she said resulted in a miscarriage.

      As 97.3 KIRO FM first reported Tuesday,
      Fox had told police she was three months pregnant in September when
      facing arrest, which would make it impossible for her to have been three
      months pregnant last week, as she claimed.

      On Sept. 22, 2011, Seattle police responded to a vacant building located
      in 1250 Denny Way where a security officer reported six squatters. One
      of those people, according to police sources, was Fox.

      According to the police report, Fox told an officer she was three months pregnant and began crying when arrested.

      "(Fox) began holding her stomach and was screaming when she was
      arrested," read the report. (Fox) was treated at the scene and
      transported to HMC."

      Fox's former foster parents, Mike and Lark Stebbins, told 97.3 KIRO FM's Dori Monson Show Wednesday that she has a history of telling damaging lies.

      "Jennifer has a tendency to exaggerate," Lark said. "Jennifer doesn't
      understand the ramifications of allegations towards people, and that's
      my concern with this possible lawsuit against the Seattle Police
      Department."

      The night Fox was pepper sprayed, Lark said she got a phone call from
      her. Fox was at Harborview Medical Center getting her eyes examined
      because of the spray, but did not mention any of the accusations that
      would later surface.

      "She did not mention having a bike thrown at her," Lark said. "She did
      not mention that she was pregnant. She did not mention that she was
      kicked in the stomach."

      When confronted about the September police report Tuesday, Fox denied remembering the incident.
      Then, she changed her story and said that the "police report must have
      been wrong," because she told police she was one month pregnant at the
      time.

      So far, Fox has declined to provide medical records or further evidence
      or her miscarriage.

      your thoughts?

    • 6 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • nanac
  • savvy7
  • cherry5000
  • jackhole
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      jackhole  
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    • YAY! Lets pepper spray the planet.

      Picture the new Holiday Ad from coke:

      On a hilltop in Italy
      We assembled young people
      From all over the world
      To bring you this message
      From Coca-Cola Bottlers
      All over the world
      It's the real thing - Coke.
      And they sang...

      I'd like to buy the world a home
      And furnish it with love
      Grow apple trees and honey bees
      And snow white turtle doves.

      Chorus:
      I'd like to PEPPER SPRAY the world to STING
      In perfect harmony
      I'd like to buy the world SOME MACE
      And keep it company

      That's the real thing.

    • 6 months ago
  • nanac
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      nanac  

    • It is absolutely incredible, for someone to be crazy enough to use pepper spray on innocent strangers.
      I hope that they find this deranged woman before she hurts someone else. She is a danger to society!

    • 6 months ago
  • thedirtman
  • OlBlue
  • ThirdSection
  • queenofit
  • queenofit
    • +2
      queenofit  
    • queenofit:

      By Rev Billy
      WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? The producers who now own our movie have never once, in the three years since they bought it - not once have they contacted us. They are selling it SOMEWHERE in the super mall in the sky. But don't they understand: this is not a product. This is a cause. We're trying to prevent the SHOPOCALYPSE! So here at the high holy days of our theological year, "Buy Nothing Day," - we decided to bootleg our own film.

    • 6 months ago
  • Incredulous
    • +2
      Incredulous  
    • queenofit:

      eerie....spot on that we have gone from a nation of producers to a nation of consumers. You look at the people we celebrate, and it is not people who have created or produced, but rather, we are in awe of the greatest consumers amongst us.

    • 6 months ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  
    • queenofit:

      Rev Billy is the REAL DEAL , he has been at Occupy on wall street , many times , he has occupied banks BEFORE Occupy existed , with his fantastic choir , he has tried to replace comsumerism , with joy , which is what would really satisfy our hearts any way ! Those people who are SO frantic to get more shit , REALLY needed more love and connection in their lives . That is the what can truly , once and for all fill that hole of emptiness that lives inside ... a smile , a shared moment , a happy embrace of the moment ..

    • 6 months ago
  • queenofit
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      queenofit  
    • artemis6:

      I admire him and that beautiful choir who traveled with him in that video. They were pretty brave going out to sing their views to the masses. I just happened across the video/website yesterday, I watched the entire one and half hour video, which goes fast, because it IS well done. His message is a good one, and we all need to listen. Especially anyone who has to go into debt to buy stuff FOR CHRISTMAS?

    • 6 months ago
  • artemis6
  • queenofit
  • HappyHeartJeff
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      HappyHeartJeff [removed]  
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    • Buy local -- Consume less -- Save money in a credit union instead -- read a book -- Don't buy pepper spray -- Don't use pepper spray -- Spend time with your kids -- Spend time with your family -- Spend time giving -- Line up to vote but don't line up to shop -- Read a book -- Exercise all that weight off you gained the day before -- Blog on Current -- Kiss a baby -- Make a friend -- Fly a kite -- Change the oil in your car -- Woo that girl down the street you like -- Go green -- Save the planet -- Save your future -- Make cents instead of making war -- Listen to music -- Enjoy life -- Educate yourself -- Don't fight -- Don't hurt ...

      ... and for the love of God don't line up like cows on the way to slaughter thinking that if you just have a little more your life will be fulfilling.

    • 6 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  

    • It's ironic that Thanksgiving - A day to celebrate what we are grateful for . . .

      Is followed by a day where they rush to stores with little on there minds other than how much more they could have.

    • 6 months ago
  • RevKen
    • +2
      RevKen  

    • I have to admit one of the best things about being an Atheist is I do not have to buy christmas presents. I never understood the going shopping after Thanksgiving any way. I worked today.

    • 6 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • RevKen
    • +2
      RevKen  
    • JanforGore:

      I know that this has to do with greedy people hunting for something for nothing but since I do not go christmas shopping I do not have to worry about it. I like having a simple life.

      Then again greedy people looking for something for nothing does sound like a lot of christians this day and age. Not all, but so many people (Republican Supporters) that define themselves as christians seem to be in it for all the wrong reasons.

    • 6 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • Anonmaly
  • Incredulous
  • jahbini
    • +2
      jahbini  

    • It's OK if she's in the 1% -- just protectin' what she feels is rightly hers. "You can pry the spray out of my cold dead charge card!"

    • 6 months ago
  • AJILIVIZION
  • thedirtman
  • percipi224
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
  • HappyHeartJeff
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
  • HappyHeartJeff
  • JanforGore
  • HappyHeartJeff
    • +10
      HappyHeartJeff [removed]  
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    • '' The store remained open and those not affected by the pepper spray continued shopping ''

      That says it all doesn't it ?
      Would they have stepped over the body if a gun had been used instead ?

      Everyone talks a good game about shopping local , but it is these days of orgiastic shopping for the sake of getting a good deal on nothingness that sustains the corporate grip on us all .

      Stand in line for a day or two , fight and claw your way past your fellow man, woman or child, pepper spray them if they get in your way , support minimum wages, support no benefits, support part time, support big businesses that contribute nothing back to you, support foreign manufacturing and then support your own downfall.

      It isn't called Black for nothing.

    • 6 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • Wyley_Wombat
    • 0
      Wyley_Wombat  
    • JanforGore:

      Of course they would. Slavering Black Friday hoards already demonstrated this a few years back by trampling over others who had fallen during the opening onslaught. I think the penalty for the store should be that it would be cleared of people and closed for the day. If this happened they would have better crowd control.

    • 6 months ago
  • cantucwearebrothers
    • 0
      cantucwearebrothers  

    • We continue to feed into whatever the advertising machine pumps out. Black Friday starts earlier and earlier every year and people alter their lives to accommodate it. Seriously...the night before, midnight, 5am. I saw Starbucks was opening at 2am today. REALLY?? Your employees must be so thrilled at that.

      The holiday is called Thanksgiving. I can't imagine anyone over the age of 12 being thankful they saved $20 on a ipod, but how easy it is to forget what is truly important to you.

      It really isn't all about money. Where are our priorities?

    • 6 months ago
  • danitassin
  • danitassin
    • 0
      danitassin  

    • Maybe we should learn how to lead by example. Seems to me she learned it from somewhere. hmmm... wonder who uses pepper spray on innocent people to show how ignorant they are. hmmmm.. who does that? oh that's right, Our own police do that!

    • 6 months ago
  • EmperorThan
  • Leen61
    • +3
      Leen61  

    • This is what happens when this country's PD's show how indiscriminate use of this vile weapon becomes commonplace. It's pepper spray now, when does it become firearms. I will watch my local news tonight, given the fact that WI's conceal and carry law just went into effect Nov. 1. I won't doubt that someone will test out their newfound power to control the situation.

    • 6 months ago
  • JanforGore
    • +4
      JanforGore  
    • Leen61:

      You are correct about that mindset. People see police using it and think they can just indiscriminately spray it on anyone they want. Imagine though what would happen if a protester who was sprayed with it sprayed the police officer back to defend themselves. It is getting out of control.

    • 6 months ago
  • oldbanjo
  • HappyHeartJeff
  • bailey78
    • +3
      bailey78  

    • AH ha ha ha I know it's not funny but I have to laugh at these fools for acting like the fools they are. The stuff they want will still be on sale for the rest of the year. talk with the store manager and HAGGLE they want your money worst than you want the crap they are slinging.

    • 6 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • bailey78
    • +2
      bailey78  
    • JanforGore:

      I know jan I know it's sad to see people acting like this. I will never figure out what makes people act this way. Could be greed could be lack of intelligence. Either way they are fools in my eyes.

    • 6 months ago
  • oldbanjo
  • Vic_Romano
  • JanforGore
    • +2
      JanforGore  
    • Vic_Romano:

      And that quote is so true. We do live in a dysfunctional society, all the way from our political system to every other. When people need to have all of these material goods in order to feel they have worth there is a need to delve deeper into why especially when it begins to detrimentally affect society as a whole.

    • 6 months ago
  • Vic_Romano
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
  • mickyjon420
  • Leen61
  • JanforGore
    • +5
      JanforGore  

    • America needs to GET A GRIP. And I also think that companies like Walmart, Target and others need to be more responsible in how they push this BS day in their ads. It is absolutely EMBARRASSING to see the greed and consumerism of people who keep this corrupt system in place and the lengths they will go in order to get a shitty piece of electronics. WAKE UP America . And as it is they are still looking for this woman and she was right there. Unbelievable.

      http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/wal-mart-black-friday-marred-by-sh...

      Other incidents includes shootings as well.

      And people were even setting up tents to stay in front of some stores until they opened. Where were the riot police in those cases? I guess when you set up a tent to suck the corporate tit it's ok.

    • 6 months ago
  • queenofit
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      queenofit  
    • JanforGore:

      I wondered if this story had made it here yet, glad to see you posted it. My, my....I read this account and immediately thought, 'well, so much for boycotting Black Friday'. Seems it is alive and (cannot really say "well"), more like brimming with disastrous real life drama. As far as the pepper spray, funny, the police can attack peaceful protestors, however, this woman is being hunted down for her aggressive approach to shopping, a tad ironic to me, but I do have a rather twisted view of this kind of behavior. I agree with your take on the tents outside of Walmart, yes, they don't mind camping in their parking lot if it's going to enhance the greedy Corporate Baron's pockets. Well, one thing I can say, this year Walmart will [again] receive their 15 minutes of fame, they seem to attract a rather colorful segment of our society, which never fails to gain the public eye. (eye's rolling)

    • 6 months ago
  • Leen61
  • JanforGore
    • +3
      JanforGore  
    • queenofit:

      Yes, Walmart is always in the middle of these "events." And the thing is, their "products" from China are what in large part caused the umemployment rate here. And people are willing to risk their lives for that. It's insanity.

    • 6 months ago
  • queenofit
    • +1
      queenofit  
    • JanforGore:

      Most of the people who are shopping in Walmart are exactly the ones who will end up with a years worth of debt to live with from buying all this garbage. Most of this junk will end up filling our landfills, because it is, for the most part, a bunch of cheap clutter. Then, to top it all off, they are in there fighting to get a couple dollars off? Yep, welcome to the Consumer Society of United States, brought to you by all the advertising money can buy.

    • 6 months ago
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