Victim of Black Friday

[ck4829]

This is a photo of Jdimytai Damour, the man who was trampled to death as a result of Black Friday.

[grannie4peace]

1. that's so sad

i wish we could do something for his family-i saw one of his relatives on cnn. he was so calm and just seemed to accept everything that happened with such grace & faith. walmart better take care of his family for a long time and they better change the way they run things!!!

[KittyWampus]

3. I hope with all my heart his death wasn't in vain and prompts changes in how big box stores

operate their sales and how people react to the advertising.

[DoctorMyEyes]

6. I work for a "Big Box"

And that kind of shit would NEVER happen at my store or any of the other responsible retailer I've worked for over the years. This is a WALMART phenomenon. Walmart is the ONLY major retailer I've EVER known that does NOT excercise crowd control for major sales events.

Who do you see on the news EVERY year on Black Friday with crazed pushing shoving mob scenes? Walmart!

[jpertello]

10. the last gasp of consumerism before America’s grinding, long slide into Chinese receivership begins

[shadowknows69]

2. RIP Jdimytai

Such a senseless tragedy. :cry:

[nuxvomica]

4. Newsday: "Friends: Wal-Mart victim was easygoing, helpful"

Jdimytai Damour, 34, the Wal-Mart worker who died Friday after shoppers stampeded in a Valley Stream store, was an easygoing, helpful man who loved poetry, friends and family said.

Family friend Ronald Jean Myrthil, of Bridgeport, Conn., said Damour came to pick him up after he had staggered across the Brooklyn Bridge, fleeing Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001. Another time, when Myrthil needed to go to the hospital, Damour took him.

Damour's father, a Queens school bus driver, is at a loss to understand his son's fate.

"I don't know what happened to him. He's gone. Only God knows what happened to him," said his father, Ogera Charles, of Fresh Meadows.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-livict2912221622nov29,0,7364256.story

[DoctorMyEyes]

5. Senseless

It breaks my heart that a 34 year old man would even find himself in a position to have to take a crappy Walmart temp job over the holiday season. But, to be killed for it. To have his young life literally stomped out by shitty corporate policy and uncontrolled mobs... It just makes me sick.

This young man had no business being assigned to that door. He was a temporary maintenance worker without proper training in security or crowd control. He could have been anyone. He could have been any of my co-workers, my friends, my family. Just a guy trying to earn some money in a tough economy. His poor family... Heartbreaking...

[Tesla]

7. This is such a sad shame,

what possesses people to act this way and make a bargain be more important over a beautiful life.
RIP Jdimytai

[jpertello]

8. Saturday

It was a sober quiet polite crowd which filed in slowly to that very same Walmart. The cardboard boxes taped to the broken glass doors were a gutwrenching reminder to them to act like human beings to one another and not animals. The store employees were visibly nervous. They now live with the reality that their customers have the potential to turn into an unthinking insane mob of murderers when seeking those great Walmart bargains.

This weekend 2000 people learned that the true meaning of Christmas is not buying yet more useless stupid shit but to act lovingly toward your fellow man. It was a sad expensive tragic lesson, but hopefully one well learned and not soon forgotten.

[ellie]

9. That poor man

I hope his family finds peace.

[jpertello]

11. the customers would not leave, even after being informed of the death.

So what I’ve heard is this:

The crowd trampled this poor fellow. The other workers tried to help him but were beaten back by the crowd, literally beaten as punches were thrown. After it became clear that the man was dead, they tried to close the store down, at least temporarily, to get this sorted out as best they could, but were again met with threats from angry shoppers who refused to be ushered out. AND YET, after all this, what really shocked me, really blew me away, was that these crazed slavering man-beast customers…

PAID FOR THEIR PURCHASES.

They had essentially seized control of the Wal-Mart by force of violence in precisely the way looting crowds might. But they insisted on WAITING ON LINE TO HAVE THEIR PURCHASES RUNG UP.

I guess it makes sense, in a way. If they had meant to walk off with whatever goods they could carry after murdering and maiming the minimum-wage staff, it hardly needed to be the day after Thanksgiving. That sort of thing works pretty much just as well every day.
http://wonkette.com/404632/crazed-mob-stomps-wal-mart-worker-to-death