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A record number of gun-buyers flooded into retail stores on Black Friday, according to federal data, which showed that background checks surged to an unprecedented 185,345.
The attempts by Black Lives Matter to shut down Black Friday shopping didn’t just happen in Chicago; video released over the weekend by video activist Leo Stratton shows that the group also did a shutdown action at Portland, Oregon’s Lloyd Center Mall.
CNN Commentator and Morehouse College Professor Marc Lamont Hill said the Black Friday protests in Chicago were “saying that we’re not going to continue to fund our own genocide” on Friday’s “Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield” on CNN. Hill responded
A third day of protests descended upon Chicago’s busy downtown Michigan Avenue shopping district, shutting down some stores as protesters barricaded doors arm-in-arm to prevent shoppers from entering or leaving stores on Chicago’s famed “Magnificent Mile.”
Democratic socialist candidate for president Bernie Sanders wasn’t getting into the Black Friday spirit, spending the day tweeting an angry missive against retail giant WalMart.
Unions rallied their employees, students and allies staged a protest at a Walmart in Pico Rivera, Calif., kicking off a national campaign to pressure the retailer to pay a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
Black Friday chaos at retail locations across the U.S. started early this year, as many stores opened on Thursday. One of the hotspots turned out to be a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas.
Friday on the Fox Business Channel, Rainbow Coalition PUSH founder Jesse Jackson said he is protesting Black Friday in downtown Chicago’s shopping district dubbed the Magnificent Mile in order to bring attention to the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald and
On the heels of six consecutive record-breaking months of gun sales, the FBI predicts Black Friday gun sales will break records as well.
Roughly 3,000 demonstrators have shut down a large portion of Michigan Avenue in Chicago–the “Magnificent Mile”–in the middle of Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, to protest the shooting of black teenager Laquon McDonald.
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Demonstrators in Chicago say they will march down the city’s Magnificent Mile to disrupt Black Friday shopping in order to bring attention to the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. After Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder,
Black Friday deal hunting has already turned violent for shoppers at the St. Matthew’s Mall in Louisville, KY when a brawl broke out near the food court. Follow Pam Key On Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Shoppers in Kentucky kicked off Black Friday by getting in an all-out brawl in a shopping mall in Lexington, Kentucky on Thanksgiving night.
Consumers preparing for Black Friday are arriving at stores far earlier this year than ever before; some customers have been camped out since last week.
2013 was a banner year for gun sales, with a record 21,093,273 background checks for gun purchases completed. And with all those new guns in circulation, the FBI reports that murders and robberies have decreased.
On July 7, the FBI announced that June 2015 was the “busiest June” for gun purchase background checks ever.
The FBI’s December figures show 2.3 million background checks for gun purchasers were conducted in one month alone.
