The video showed a rampaging mob attacking people indiscriminately in the parking lot of a Kroger supermarket in Memphis, Tennessee. A bag boy saw the advancing crowd and sought shelter.
He tried to escape but within a matter of moments the young man found himself swept up in the violence and chaos.
The first punch came without warning. He was knocked to the ground. Then came another and the boy collapsed. But the angry mob would not let up. They slammed pumpkins into the boy’s battered body. The boy lost consciousness.
He watched as strangers pummeled his son. And as a father he struggled to keep his emotions in check.
All you could see was blood and pumpkins, an eyewitness told television station WREG.
As the boy lay helpless on the ground, one of the predators hovered over his