As a community we've had a lot of discussion here at MyDD, most of it around a month ago, surrounding the tragic death of Djimytai Damour at a New York Wal-Mart on Black Friday.

We discussed what it meant to live in a society in which human beings would trample one another underfoot for a deal on a TV. We pondered what Wal-Mart might have done differently, and we argued about whether Wal-Mart was even at all responsible.

I do some work with Wake-Up Wal-Mart, an organization that has worked to bring relief to Damour's family.

Now there's a new development in the story. Leana Lockley, the pregnant woman whom Jdimytai Damour died saving, is telling her tale:

"There were so many people on top of me it just went silent," Lockley said. "I started hearing my teeth grinding in my mouth and my body being crushed. I really thought I lost my baby."

Then Damour came in to save her:

"My back was to the crowd. His chest was facing the crowd. He had his hands up. Unfortunately, the crowd overpowered him. He fell back on me. That's when I fell to the ground. My whole body was flat, my face to the ground. It was dark," she said.

Damour did not only save the woman's life-- he saved her baby as well. She is due in April.

Lockley is suing Wal-Mart, so in response Wal-Mart is sending... diapers. Are we to gather from this that if Wal-Mart were to actually, you know, offer a settlement, they would be admitting that they should have done more to protect their customer Lockley, and their employee Damour?

No, Wal-Mart. You're never responsible for anything.

(Cross-posted, in slightly different format, at Daily Kos.)