As we told you last week, Jdimytai Damour, a Wal-Mart employee, was trampled to death by early morning shoppers at a New York Wal-Mart on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.
Now, a family member of Damour’s has just filed a wrongful-death lawsuit.
They claim the store’s ads offering such deep discounts “created an atmosphere of competition and anxiety” which led to “crowd craze.”
The suit alleges that aside from not providing enough security for the estimated 2,000 crowd, Wal-Mart also “engaged in specific marketing and advertising techniques to specifically attract a large crowd and create an environment of frenzy and mayhem and was otherwise careless, reckless and negligent.”
We agree they should have had better security, but we doubt any company would promote frenzy and mayhem.
Those named in the suit include Wal-Mart, the Green Acres Mall next door, a realty company that manages the property, and a security company hired to patrol the property.
We still think they should observe the security cameras and find the people that walked all over him. Seriously, how can you NOT notice you are literally walking on someone?
Police have said they are reviewing the store videos to identify possible suspects, but believe criminal charges are not likely to happen.
And Damour’s family also plans to sue Nassau County and its police department.
[Image via AP Images.]
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