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29 November 2013

USA! USA! USA!

There were several incidents of retail-related disorder across the US.
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In Chicago, a police officer shot a suspected shoplifter driving a car that was dragging a fellow officer at a Kohl's department store. The suspect and the dragged officer were treated in hospital for shoulder injuries. Three people were arrested, reports the Chicago Tribune

A shopper in Las Vegas who was carrying a big-screen TV home from a Target store on Thanksgiving was shot in the leg as he tried to wrestle the item back from a robber who had just stolen it from him at gunpoint, reports the Las Vegas Sun

At a southern California Walmart store, a police officer's wrist was broken as he tried to break up a fight between two men in the queue outside; there were two more fights over goods inside, reports the San Bernadino Sun

A 23-year-old man was doused with pepper spray and arrested after he allegedly attacked a police officer responding to an argument over a television at a Walmart in Garfield, New Jersey, reports the Star-Ledger

Despite Walmart's pledge to overhaul its crowd-control measures, these scenes of mayhem were apparently filmed at a store in Fort Worth, Texas and at another outlet in North Carolina

Two arrests were made after a man was stabbed in an argument over a parking space at a Walmart in Virginia, reports local television 

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