Retired pastor William Miller is led away in handcuffs outside Wal-Mart in Paramount on Friday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Wal-Mart shoppers walk past protesters outside the retail giant’s store in Paramount. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Shoppers show their excitement after a long wait in line at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
A Black Friday shopper totes large shopping bags past a Christmas tree at Santa Monica Place. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Shoppers carry bags of purchases along Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
A glass door broken by shoppers in the rush to get into the Urban Outfitters store on Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Several dozen shoppers line up outside the Tory Burch women’s clothing store in South Coast Plaza. People were let in as others left. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Eddie Hong, right and his friend Gil Jae Lee try to workout their shopping kinks at South Coast Plaza. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
With Santa Monica police and security present, shoppers with wristbands wait for about two hours to get into the Brandy Melville store during Black Friday at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Shoppers walk through the early morning fog at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa as dawn breaks on Black Friday. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
In fog, shoppers rush across the street to another store as they make their rounds during Black Friday at Santa Monica Place and Third Street Promenade. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
The first shoppers dash through the door at the midnight opening of the Best Buy in Lakewood. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Shoppers run into shopping cart gridlock at the midnight opening of Best Buy in Lakewood. Many carts were filled with flat screen TVs. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Ricky Catibog of Long Beach holds her sleeping 6-year-old daughter, Ericka, while in the checkout line about 1 a.m. at Best Buy in Lakewood. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
