Jdimytai Damour

Jdimytai Damour

Jdimytai Damour, 34, was the Wal-Mart employee who was trampled to death by a wave of early morning Black Friday shoppers Nov. 28, 2008, in Long Island, New York.

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Jdimytai Damour died the day after Thanksgiving last year when he was trampled to death while working at a New York Wal-Mart where shoppers had lined up to rush into the store and nab the best deals of the store's annual Black Friday sale. Jdimytai Damour This year, the corporate giant responsible for providing some of the cheapest deals in the market place is taking precautions to insure that another such death doesn't occur. As part of a legal agreement in which Wal-Mart admitted no culpability in the death of Jdimytai Damour, the store is implementing a number of safety measures. Most notably, Wal-Mart ... Read Full Story
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The NY Times report below attempts to place an ethical question onto this tragedy, but misses the point. Americans have been brainwashed into believing they are only as good, successful, and worthy as the things they own. Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales present the facts with clarity as well as compassion. Their interview with Patrick Purcell of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 and Savriti D, Director of Rev. Billy's Church of Stop Shopping, discusses the conditions which were created by a corporate giant. Wal-Mart saved money and murdered a man who went to his job one morning but will ... Read Full Story
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How can a sale be so important to people that they would trample and kill someone without a second thought: The family of a worker trampled to death in a “Black Friday” crush of bargain hunters at a Long Island Wal-Mart store filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming store ads offering deep discounts “created an atmosphere of competition and anxiety” that led to “crowd craze.” The lawsuit claims that besides failing to provide adequate security for a pre-dawn crowd estimated at 2,000, Wal-Mart “engaged in specific marketing and advertising techniques to specifically attract a large crowd and create an environment of frenzy and ... Read Full Story
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Cops in Southern Georgia say that recent threats of gang initiation killings at Wal-Mart are uncredited threats. The urban legend of gangs requiring members to kill innocent shoppers at stores like Wal-Mart and Target have run rampant before, but this initiation threat sent some residents into a tizzy. Residents of Valdosta, Georgia received text messages and e-mails warning them to stay away from area Wal-Marts. The messages warned that gangs have infiltrated the department stores and will be carrying out initiation killings on innocent shoppers. Cops say there is no merit behind the threats, and that these type of gang initiation threats have become ... Read Full Story
Written by omemeeozzie on
The family of a worker trampled to death in a "Black Friday" crush of bargain hunters at a New York Wal-Mart store filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming store ads offering deep discounts "created an atmosphere of competition and anxiety" that led to "crowd craze." In simple terms, the advertising made people do it. Please. As many of you know, by day, I own and run a small, full-service advertising agency based in Toronto. While I do believe strongly in the power of the written and spoken word, I am amazed that some lawyer saw fit to pursue this based upon the above ... Read Full Story
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It is Black Friday, when everyone mobs the stores, chasing bargains. It is a big economic deal; all the financial media are watching the size of the lineups. It is also Buy Nothing Day, set up in reaction to this fiesta of consumerism by the Adbusters Media Foundation. According to Kalle Lasn, co-founder of Adbusters: "Our headlong plunge into ecological collapse requires a profound shift in the way we see things. Driving hybrid cars and...  
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Exactly a year ago Friday, emergency crews worked frantically to revive a Walmart worker in Valley Stream, trampled when 3,000 frenzied shoppers burst through the doors hoping to be first to grab the big bargains. Jdimytai Damour died in the stampede of hysterical Black Friday bargain-hunting shoppers. Eleven others were injured just after the doors were unlocked. Emmanuel Moultrie was injured in last year's stampede and was suing Walmart...  
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Store management called Upland police at 2:44 a.m., asking for assistance in dealing with customers who were “fighting inside,” said Lt. Jim Etchason. About 300 people were in the store, which had remained open all night as a security precaution after a Wal-Mart worker on Long Island, N.Y., was trampled to death last year on Black Friday when a surging, impatient crowd rushed the doors after the store opened. But in Upland, employees said...  
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Here's video of the inside of one Wal-Mart (WMT) during Black Friday. We have to wonder: where is all the security? Read the rest of this story »See Also:Startling Jump In eCommerce Spending On Cyber MondayWal-Mart Marketing Blamed For Trampling DeathNY Police Issue Crowd-Control Recommendations For Future Black Fridays  
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Retailers nationwide are looking to make Black Friday safer a year after a wall of frantic shoppers trampled a guard to death at a Walmart store on New York's Long Island. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is among companies instituting new procedures after the death of security guard Jdimytai Damour. The company is keeping its stores open 24 hours on Thanksgiving Day. That will make it unnecessary for shoppers to converge outside for pre-dawn openings.  
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VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. — Victoria Rogers had originally planned to make an early stop the day after Thanksgiving last year at the Walmart store in Valley Stream on Long Island.  
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Black Friday brought out the rowdy side of some Wal-Mart shoppers early yesterday when the store in Upland, Calif., shut down for more than two hours after customers inside caused a ruckus.  
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