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Rush For Shoes At Texas Mall Ends With Pepper Spray
CBS DFW ^ | 12/21/12 | unknown

Posted on 12/22/2012 7:29:44 AM PST by crosshairs

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A Fort Worth shoe store may think better of its first-come-first-serve policy after a small riot occurred surrounding the release of the new Retro Air Jordan shoes.

The Shoe Palace at Hulen Mall decided to let people line up to buy the shoes. A line formed around 5:00 a.m. and at one point the pushing and shoving in the crowd knocked over a couple police officers working as security.

“At that point the mall security officer sprayed a short burst of mace (pepper spray) into the crowd,” Fort Worth police Sergeant Pedro Criado explained. “The Fort Worth officer that got knocked down to the ground, he sprayed a short burst of mace into the crowd as well.”

Most stores across North Texas used a voucher system to sell the shoes and there were reportedly no problems at those locations. Sergeant Criado thinks the approach is safer. “It’s like a lottery system – you get a voucher and your name gets drawn, then you get the opportunity to pick up your shoes within 24 hours,” he said. “Yes, I think that’s a better system. It’ll avoid any crowds from gathering and any riots from occurring.”

The pepper spray dispersed the crowd and didn’t end with anyone hurt. “There were no reported injuries,” Criado said. “The officer did not get transported to the hospital, basically just scrapes and bruising from getting knocked down.”

Fort Worth police made no arrests in regard to the incident.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: jordans; shoes
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To: traditional1

Reply to #5

I doubt there is half a brain in that entire crowd.....


21 posted on 12/22/2012 8:48:23 AM PST by 3722535r
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To: wolficatZ

Ugly shoes prove small tings amuse small minds.


22 posted on 12/22/2012 8:48:37 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: servantboy777
Is it just me or is there some sort of weird commonality to these stories?

It is the same culture that shot 446 school age children in Chicago this year.

23 posted on 12/22/2012 8:54:28 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (It is impossible to have a good faith negotiations with terrorists or any Muslim.)
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To: crosshairs

Why would anyone riot over butt ugly shoes that I wouldn’t wear even if someone gave them to me?


24 posted on 12/22/2012 8:55:44 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: servantboy777

“Is it just me or is there some sort of weird commonality to these stories?”

YEs; apparently instead of normal entrances they all seem to use livestock chutes.


25 posted on 12/22/2012 9:02:20 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: wolficatZ

Thanks for taunting me with pictures showing where my taxes are being spent...


26 posted on 12/22/2012 9:04:13 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: traditional1

wow that looks like whole bunch Obama’s sons and whole extended family

Martin Luther King would be proud of content of their character, I bet


27 posted on 12/22/2012 9:05:27 AM PST by Mr. K (There are lies, dammed lies, statistics, and democrap talking points.)
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To: crosshairs

What kind of pepper goes into that pepper spray. Is it black, habanero, white or is it multicultural?


28 posted on 12/22/2012 9:08:20 AM PST by equaviator
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To: crosshairs

I think that high-priced athletic shoes must need some sort of laws to control their availability, as the sale of them seems to lead to violent confrontations. Shoe control now!


29 posted on 12/22/2012 9:39:50 AM PST by Bigg Red (Sorry, Mr. Franklin, I guess we couldn't keep it.)
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To: traditional1
Where all da white people at?


30 posted on 12/22/2012 9:45:42 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.)
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To: lysie

I remember Keds and PF Flyers... you could “run faster” and “jump higher”

Somehow the commercial made me think you could actually fly if you were wearing these and I wanted them sooooooooooo bad~!!!!!


31 posted on 12/22/2012 9:50:01 AM PST by Mr. K (There are lies, dammed lies, statistics, and democrap talking points.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Did anyone have a video from the checkout line? How many use their EBT cards?

The dependant class is becoming awful ungrateful- demanding more and more. When their socialist paradise is instituted there WILL BE forced labor - From each according to his abilities applies to ALL


32 posted on 12/22/2012 9:52:30 AM PST by Mr. K (There are lies, dammed lies, statistics, and democrap talking points.)
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To: Mr. K

Somehow the commercial made me think you could actually fly if you were wearing these and I wanted them sooooooooooo bad~!!!!!


If that era’s culture was the same as today’s, you would have simply taken them from someone else. The fact that you wanted them would have been adequate justification.


33 posted on 12/22/2012 9:59:00 AM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Fair is a place you go to eat cotton candy and step in monkey poop)
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To: Mr. K

Thanks for reminding me of PF Flyers.


34 posted on 12/22/2012 10:05:00 AM PST by lysie
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To: crosshairs

Had to Google what the shoes looked like. First, they are singularly unattractive and second, they’re just shoes. Really people, over shoes???!!!


35 posted on 12/22/2012 10:37:40 AM PST by Conservative4Ever (Dear Santa....I can explain.)
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To: Mr. K
Somehow the commercial made me think you could actually fly if you were wearing these and I wanted them sooooooooooo bad~!!!!!

Marketing people are Wall-Bound when the revolution starts.

36 posted on 12/22/2012 11:28:20 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Conservative4Ever
Really people, over shoes???!!!

If you had a pair of these and one of these "people" were to kill you to steal them, it would be a better excuse than most have, nowadays...

37 posted on 12/22/2012 11:31:57 AM PST by Gritty (Every armed, trained citizen makes this county a better place - Dave Grossman, Self Defense Expert)
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To: crosshairs
Thank goodness these were just the Retro Air Jordans.

When the Nike Air Jordan XI was released, there was fighting, stabbing, gunfire, and other recreation at malls and stores in Orlando, Lithonia (GA), Richmond (CA), Richmond (VA), Indianapolis, San Antonio, and Charlotte.

I'm sure I missed a few.

38 posted on 12/22/2012 11:44:08 AM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Gritty

That is the whole shocking mindset...the mind reels...as to make one almost speechless.


39 posted on 12/22/2012 11:47:50 AM PST by Conservative4Ever (Dear Santa....I can explain.)
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To: crosshairs

Really, what is is with blacks and tennis shoes? Huh? WTF?


40 posted on 12/22/2012 1:16:24 PM PST by ozzymandus
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