Black Friday Pepper Spray Incident in Porter Ranch

[Modern_Matthew]

Source: NBC Los Angeles

A customer shot pepper spray at other customers at a
busy Northridge Wal-Mart store late Thursday night, causing minor injuries to 10 people who had been waiting hours for Black Friday savings, according to Los Angeles firefighters and a police lieutenant.

A witness told NBC4 that the incident started as people waited in line for the new Xbox 360. The witness said a woman with two children in tow became upset with the way people were pushing in line. The witness said she pulled out pepper spray, and sprayed the other people in line.

Read more: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/Black-Friday-Pepper-Spray-Incident-in-Porter-Ranch-134481693.html

[L. Coyote]

1. If they arrest her do they have to arrest Officer Pike .....

How ironic that this occurs at this time.

[Devil_Fish]

2. Corporal punishment is still legal in texas.

a little girl in kindergarten class had just been shown the paddle by the teacher in class, and had it explained that if the kids did not do what the teacher says, they get the paddle.

At lunch time, the little girl wanted some of another kids sandwich. when the other kid refused, the little girl picked up a stick and hit him with it.

you reap as you sow.

[Maine-ah]

7. I predict their defense:

"It's essentially a food product!"

[freshwest]

22. She was attempting to comfort them with food.

[L. Coyote]

29. Eat this! The inventor of pepper spray has commented on its curent uses

on NPR today. Insightful stuff, condemning the police for using violence to confront anyone who has an opinion.


Inventor of Pepper Spray Condemns Police Usage Against Occupy Protestors

To Kamran Loghman, who helped develop pepper spray into a weapons-grade material with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1980s, the incident at Davis violated his original intent.

“I have never seen such an inappropriate and improper use of chemical agents,” Mr. Loghman said in an interview.

Mr. Loghman, who also helped develop guidelines for police departments using the spray, said that use-of-force manuals generally advise that pepper spray is appropriate only if a person is physically threatening a police officer or another person.

http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2011/11/23/inventor-of-pepper-spray-condemns-police-usage-against-occupy-protestors/

[freshwest]

31. Yeah, I saw that, but the fascists aren't listening, are they? And the woman was a perfect randian.

[dballance]

3. Over a Fricking TOY? Are you kidding me?

First of all, it's stupid to stand in line all night for a toy. Do what my parents did - say NO, you're not going to get it so don't expect it under the tree.

Second of all, Pepper Spraying people? What are you - the UC cops?

[freshwest]

23. Hey, just practicing equality under the law, it's legal. No such thing as assault now.

[durablend]

25. Agreed!

Megyn Kelly says it's OK, so that's that.

[jmowreader]

32. I question your "first of all"

Since this line was for Xbox 360s, I suspect half will show up on eBay, half the remainder will be used by the purchaser rather than being given as a gift, and MAYBE the rest will be used as gifts.

The ratios may be off, but if the price of these things was low enough, at least three quarters of them weren't bought as gifts for anyone the purchaser knows.

[FreakinDJ]

4. Whats the fuss - "It's just a food product"

:sarcasm:

[me b zola]

5. When did Northridge get a walmart thrust upon them?

Lol, time to break out google maps and tour "home" again.


Can't bring myself to comment on the hideous woman.

[NYPat]

6. Note the response

Judging by the video at the link, the Police and Fire Department took this incident seriously.

[jerseyjack]

8. Officer Pike: "She was being encircled. She had no way out. Self-defense."

Case Closed.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

9. Pepper Spray for One and All!

The question remains: is it a condiment, or a vegetable?

[truth2power]

10. People are only modeling what they're being told is acceptable behavior...

by "credible" sources such as Fox News.

How could this not have been predicted?

[saras]

20. You've nailed it exactly, and there's nothing wrong with it.

It's a universal human phenomenon. We do what we see works, and we try not to do what we see doesn't work. We don't, however, bother to define "what works" in any way other than immediate short-term benefit.

"I don't know what to do here. My normal training is exhausted. What do I do? I do what SUCCESSFUL people do, of course."

[freshwest]

24. + a million monkeys who see and do.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. "Despite the chaos,..."

"I don't care," Nakeasha Contreras, a 20 year old who arrived after the incident, told the Times. "I'm still getting my TV."

[SemperEadem]

12. and that there is what's wrong with America

until it's one of her family members getting sprayed, then she'll care. She will never understand why she should care. She is a consuming waste of space.

[Enrique]

13. did it work?

did the people stop pushing? Did she get her Xbox 360?

[lunatica]

15. Finally! Someone who gets the real issue here!

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. There's plenty more aisle 8, next to the herbs and seasonings.

Not to worry.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. "The woman, who had two kids with her, bragged about carrying the pepper spray"

Just now, live, in MSNBC's reporting of the incident...so no link.

"The suspect fled, and this morning, they are still looking for her."

Sick...just fucking SICK.

:grr:

[avaistheone1]

17. So the coward who pepper sprayed fellow shoppers fled?

I hope that chicken s*** is arrested and charged.

[guitar man]

18. It's ok

You can't be arrested and charged for it, right? I mean, isn't this what's being passed off as acceptable behavior now? After all, it's just a "food product", right?

:banghead: :grr:

[durablend]

19. Yup

And since she was likely "surrounded" at some point makes it all the more acceptable.

[sarcasmo]

21. Consumerism run wild.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501363_162-57331142/woman-pepper-sprays-other-black-friday-shoppers/

[kpete]

26. Woman in Wal-Mart pepper spray attack was 'competitive shopping'

Source: Los Angeles Times


November 25, 2011 | 1:15 am

Woman who pepper-sprayed other shoppers Thursday night at the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch had armed herself with the caustic spray to gain an advantage in the fight for merchandise at the Black Friday sale, a fire captain said.

The woman, who is still being sought, used the spray in more than one area of the Wal-Mart "to gain preferred access to a variety of locations in the store," said Los Angeles Fire Capt. James Carson.

"She was competitive shopping," he said.

Twenty customers, including children, were hurt in the 10:10 p.m. incident. Shoppers complained of minor skin and eye irritation and sore throats, he said.



Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/pepper-spray-wal-mart-competitive-shopping.html

[potone]

27. Maybe we should all buy some for Christmas.

It would make a perfect stocking stuffer!:eyes:

[Bosonic]

28. The present is becoming like the past's cheesy future movies

Next stop http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251031/">Series 7: The Contenders?

[slackmaster]

30. Someone needs to take a self-defense class

ANY self-defense class.

[tilsammans]

33. Check out this video of several mall brawls

http://storify.com/jeffelder/frightening-video-of-stampedes-and-brawls-at-black

WTF are people thinking? :crazy: