Young black woman faces 15 years in dust-up at Wal-Mart
(NEWSER) - Trial is set to begin in a case of Wal-Mart line-cutting that has turned into a racially charged media circus. Heather Ellis was arrested almost three years ago after an incident that began when she switched checkout lines at a Missouri store—to join her cousin in a faster queue, she says. Witnesses and police say the young black woman shoved other shoppers’ merchandise out of the way and then, when confronted, became belligerent. She gave one cop a kick in the chin and another a split lip, they say. She says she was called racial slurs and "jumped on" even though she wasn't resisting. More»
