Black Friday Shopping Mob Tramples Wal-Mart Employee to Death

This Black Friday was an especially dark day, leaving four customers wounded and one Wal-Mart employee dead. A crowd of over 2,000 shoppers were waiting outside a Wal-Mart store in Long Island, New York. When doors opened, the mob rushed into the building, tearing the doors off their hinges and sending employees scampering on top of vending machines to avoid the onslaught.

Jdimytai Damour, a 34 year old Wal-Mart employee, couldn't get out of the way fast enough. He was trampled to death by the mob of customers. Police and rescue workers tried unsuccessfully to revive him. Rather than stopping to help, crazed shoppers continued to step on the rescuers. Four other people were injured, including a woman who was 8 months pregnant.

Police announced that someone had died and the store would be closing, but shoppers simply did not care. One witness said, "When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, 'I've been in line since Friday morning!'". After a great deal of effort, police finally managed to drive out the remaining shoppers. They were unable to identify any of the perpetrators on security cameras because of the general chaos at the scene.

At 1PM, the store re-opened and was almost immediately swamped with customers again. One of the Wal-Mart employees said, "I look at these people's faces and I keep thinking one of them could have stepped on him. How could you take a man's life to save $20 on a TV?".

This gruesome and horrific scene is a real testament of what some people are capable of. It disgusts me that people could be so greedy and self-absorbed that they would act like wild animals just to get better deals on stuff for themselves and their friends. Stories like this really show just how horrible human beings can really be.