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As a follow up to the story Mala wrote about earlier in the week about the Wal*Mart worker that was trampled to death by the day after Thanksgiving crowds, there comes the news that the family of the murdered worker, Jdimytai Damour, will be filing a wrongful death suit against Wal*Mart and others:

“We’re going to be suing Wal-Mart as well as the owner of the mall, the security company, and we’re contemplating an action against the police and the county of Nassau, although we’re waiting to see what our investigation fleshes out about their involvement,” Hecht said.

The lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Wal-Mart and the Green Acres Mall in Nassau County, N.Y. Damour, a 6-foot-5, 270-pound temporary worker, died there Friday morning of asphyxiation while trying to shield a pregnant shopper from the throngs of bargain hunters pushing their way into the store in Valley Stream, N.Y.

The suit was filed in New York Supreme Court in the Bronx on behalf of Elsie Damour Phillipe, one of Damour’s sisters.

Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey told FOX News on Monday that investigators were scanning surveillance tape in an effort to identify individual shoppers involved in the melee.

“We are reviewing film … from individual cell phones, from cameras that are in place in the store, trying to identify, if in fact we can identify, people that are culpable in this,” Mulvey said. “And it is difficult because a lot of people in the front of the line were pushed forward, and it’s difficult for us to decipher who is more responsible in all of this.”

But Hecht said the retailer should have been prepared for the crowds when it offered sale items that included a Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV for $798, a Bissel Compact Upright Vacuum for $28, a Samsung 10.2 megapixel digital camera for $69 and DVDs such as “The Incredible Hulk” for $9.

While I totally support the family’s lawsuit and stand in solidarity with Damour and his co-workers as fellow workers–I have to say things have come to a pretty sad day indeed, when it makes sense that really good deals require extra security and training in order to prevent deaths.

What in the hell is wrong with people? I would try pose a more eloquent question or more eloquent commentary–but it’s just impossible to me. What kind of person literally walks on a human being to get to those damn $69 cameras? What kind of people do something like that?