Black Friday Walmart Pepper Spray Incident Leaves 20 Injured In Los Angeles

Walmart Black Friday Pepper Spray

First Posted: 11/25/11 06:02 AM ET Updated: 11/25/11 07:26 AM ET

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Authorities say 20 people had minor injuries when a woman shot other customers with pepper spray during a Black Friday sale.

Police Lt. Abel Parga says she was trying to keep other shoppers away from the merchandise she wanted.

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.

Officials said 20 people suffered minor injuries. At least half of those were caused by crowd jostling after the spraying.

Parga says police are still looking for the woman.

The store remained open and those not affected by the pepper spray continued shopping.

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Authorities say 20 people had minor injuries when a woman shot other customers with pepper spray during a Black Friday sale.Police Lt. Abel Parga says she was trying to keep othe...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Authorities say 20 people had minor injuries when a woman shot other customers with pepper spray during a Black Friday sale.Police Lt. Abel Parga says she was trying to keep othe...
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09:21 PM on 11/25/2011
They didn't do all those things to shop or to save money, they did them because they are eaten up by anger, or actually insane, and were looking for opportunities to act out. Just wait until they have a real reason to hit the streets, they'll run red with blood.
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Blodo
Time to build a better world
05:05 PM on 11/25/2011
They need wider doors on those places. I found it impossible to back my water canon into the local mall.
03:27 PM on 11/25/2011
what a dumb situation that should have never occurred. half of these people probably own most of this stuff that they are trampling and pepper spraying people to get to.
03:24 PM on 11/25/2011
My last Black Friday escapade was about 15 years ago, I was bent on getting my daughter an Easy Bake Oven, and some other things for my family. Even though money was tight, when everything was said and done, I realized that the aggravation was so not worth it. I saved less then $20.00. While this is a lot of money for some people, I never subjected myself to that madness again.

Some people come across like vultures and for most, I reeallly wonder if it is about the savings. Camping out in tents, using pepper spray, paying people to stand in line etc...is crazy. I believe there are a whole lot of people that are just drawn to the chaos, which sometimes land some people in the hospital and even the morgue.
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novabird
Lover of Life, Radical Centrist
06:38 PM on 11/25/2011
We worship in the church of mindless consumerism.
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Whistlejackett
Hey stop doing that
12:02 PM on 11/25/2011
The mind set of a nation? How sick it is.
08:31 AM on 11/25/2011
MUST HAVE STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Retail zombies...God..reminds me of the Cabbage Patch and Tickle Me Elmo fiascos. I wish retailers would STOP doing this stuff...really >.
07:51 AM on 11/25/2011
Ahhhh yes.....what can be said about this.......
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LeftyNeoCon
What happens when extreme left and right combine.
08:15 AM on 11/25/2011
Only in America?
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iamyourknight
Imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever
10:59 AM on 11/25/2011
She's been learning from the police around our country.