Black Friday in America could be summed up by the tragic death in a Long Island Wal-Mart. A crowd assembled hours before the store opened and as the 5 A.M. opening time approached, they began chanting and pushing on the glass doors. An employee was knocked to the floor and repeatedly trampled. As store officials finally got to him to administer CPR, throngs of shoppers walked on them.

Eventually the employee was pronounced dead an hour after he was crushed. If there are security cameras of the event, it would be right to try to identify the customers, who trampled the man, by also using credit card purchasing records.

Wal-Mart would rather wash their hands of it than risk offending rabid customers willing to spend money there.