Police gone wild with pepper spray at Walmart

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Nov. 26, 2011

It was Black Friday and their was a 32" TV advertised in the Walmart paper. My mom excited to go shopping pulled my sister and I into going shopping with her. We thought, "This is going to be a nightmare." However, we could have never predicted how our night would unfold.

We were shopping at Walmart in Kinston, NC. People began grabbing for things ahead of time and pushing each other. The police sprayed pepper spray into the crowd. Children, elderly, and disabled people were in the area but police sprayed nondiscriminatly. Many had to be taken to the hospital due to reactions from being sprayed.

I was in line patiently waiting for my item since 8pm. I was nowhere near the people who were fighting and pushing and yet I had to suffer being pepper sprayed. That is not the way it is supposed to work. You can't punnish the masses for infractions of the few!

The reaction from people is that, "Well people shouldn't have been fighting!" This people get what they desrve attitude is appauling. The ends do not always justify the means and in this case they certainly do not. It is as if police officers have forgotten there are other methods of crowd control!