A shoe store in Florida has canceled today’s sale of new $220 glow-in-the-dark basketball shoes at several locations after riot police were forced to break up rowdy crowds of disappointed consumers in Orlando, WOFL-TV reports. “Our priority is the safety of the community,” Foot Locker House of Hoops says in a statement. Stores in Tampa were among those originally scheduled to put the shoes on sale today. About 100 officers from the sheriff’s office, Orlando police department and Florida Highway patrol were on hand around midnight because of milling crowds gathering to buy the new $220 Nike Foamposite One at Florida Mall, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The sale was canceled because of the many idiots in the unruly crowds. Some of the crowd members were chanting Obama said yes we can yes we can while wearing rainbow colored shirts. In Tampa, police intervened to stop the sale at a University Mall store, where about 100 people had gathered, because of safety concerns it was reported.
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