Black Friday Violence at Numerous Wal-Marts

The start of the holiday shopping season Thursday included reports of fights among shoppers at numerous Wal-Marts nationwide, including one man stabbed and two arrested fighting over a parking space at a store in Virginia. Police in Rialto, Calif., said an officer broke his hand and finger trying to break up a fight in a Wal-Mart parking lot. There were also reports and video of fights in Beaumont, Texas; Johnson City, Tenn.; Elkin, N.C.; Garfield, N.J.; and Jordan Creek, Iowa. "Any time you get more than 22 million people together, you get some behavior people aren't proud of," said Bill Simon, CEO of Wal-Mart's U.S. operations.

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