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New Air Jordans Cause Shopping Frenzy Across U
SEATTLE The release of Nike's new Air Jordan basketball shoes caused a frenzy at stores across the nation Friday as scuffles broke out and police were brought in to stamp out unrest that nearly turned into riots in some places.
Shoppers stood in long lines through the night to get their hands on a retro version of one of the most popular models of Air Jordans ever made. The fights were reminiscent of violence that broke out in the early 1990s on streets across America as the shoes became popular targets for thieves,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Tukwila Officer Mike Murphy said people started gathering around midnight at four stores in the mall for a chance to buy the shoes, which retail for about $180 a pair. "Around 4, it started to get pretty unruly and officers sprayed pepper spray on a few people who were fighting, and that seemed to do the trick to break them up."
He said no injuries were reported, although some people suffered cuts or scrapes from fights. Some people were mugged or even killed for early versions of the shoe, created by Nike Inc. in 1985.
The Air Jordan has been a consistent hit since then with sneaker fans. A new edition was launched each year, and release dates had to be moved to the weekends at some points to keep kids from skipping school to get a pair.
No one anticipated the hysteria around the original Air Jordan, which spawned a subculture of collectors willing to wait hours to buy the latest pair. Some collectors save the shoes for special occasions or never take them out of the box.
But the uproar over the shoe had died down in recent years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. A 21-year-old man was arrested,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
In Lithonia,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ga.,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], at least four people were arrested after a crowd of customers broke down a door before a store selling the Air Jordans opened.
DeKalb County police said up to 20 squad cars responded. Officers escorted most of the people outside but took four into custody, Fox 5 Atlanta reported.
Police also said they had to break a car window to get two toddlers out after a woman went in after the shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. They said she was taken into custody when she returned to the car,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Hundreds of people also lined up outside shoe stores in Portland, Ore.,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], downtown Seattle and at a mall in nearby Federal Way.
In Tukwila, Murphy said the crowd was on the verge of a riot and would have gotten even more out of hand if the police hadn't intervened.
"It was not a nice,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], orderly group of shoppers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Murphy said. "There were a lot of hostile and disorderly people."
About 25 officers from Tukwila, Renton,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Kent, Seattle and King County responded. Murphy said they smelled marijuana and found alcohol containers at the scene.
The Southcenter mall's stores sold out of the Air Jordan 11 Retro Concords, and all but about 50 people got their Nikes, Murphy said.
Shoppers described the scene as chaotic and at times dangerous,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Carlisa Williams said she joined the crowd at the Southcenter for the experience and ended up buying two pairs of shoes -- one for her and one for her brother,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. But she said she'll never do anything like it again,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
"I don't understand why they're so important to people,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Williams told KING-TV. "They're just shoes at the end of the day. It's not worth risking your life over."
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