Scenes From Black Friday: Gunshots, Pepper Spray

The American holiday shopping season has begun in earnest. Early signs point to bigger crowds than last year, but the violence keeps mounting on Black Friday (especially at Walmarts):

• The lowlight so far is probably this nasty pepper-spray incident at a Los Angeles Walmart.
• In Northern California, a shopper got shot when he resisted a pair of armed robbers outside a Walmart store in San Leandro. He is in stable condition, and the shooter is at large.
• In Fayetteville, NC, gunfire erupted at Cross Creek Mall, and police say they're looking for two suspects. No injuries were reported.
• Police say two women have been injured and a man charged after a fight broke out at a Walmart near Syracuse.
• In central Florida, a man is behind bars after a fight broke out at a jewelry counter in Walmart in Kissimmee.
• A Phoenix television station reported witness accounts that police slammed a grandfather in a Walmart in Buckeye, Ariz., to the ground after he allegedly put a game in his waistband so that he could lift his grandson out of the crowd.

(More Black Friday stories.)