Breast Cancer Patient Attacked by Violent Anti-Mask Protest Outside Clinic

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A breast cancer patient got maced, punched and verbally abused by anti-maskers outside a breast cancer clinic in L.A.

The anti-maskers were protesting the clinics mask requirement.

Breast Cancer Patient Attacked by Violent Anti-Mask Protest Outside Clinic
“Do you know anything about chemotherapy? Do you know what happens to the immune system?”
vice.com
8:23 AM · Jul 23, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbxmg/breast-cancer-patient-attacked-anti-mask-protest

Dozens of anti-maskers holding signs with anti-vaxx and QAnon-adjacent conspiracy theories amassed on the sidewalk by the Cedars-Sinai Breast Health Services building on Thursday afternoon, and harassed patients and doctors. (Photo by Nick Stern)

A breast cancer patient says she was sprayed with bear mace, physically assaulted, and verbally abused outside a cancer treatment center in West Hollywood, Los Angeles by far-right activists who were angry over the clinic’s mandatory mask policy.

Dozens of anti-maskers holding signs with anti-vaxx and QAnon-adjacent conspiracy theories amassed on the sidewalk by the Cedars-Sinai Breast Health Services building on Thursday afternoon, and harassed patients and doctors.

In one exchange captured by local videographer Vishal Singh, a woman who has since publicly identified herself as Kate Burns, a cancer patient, approached the protesters and told them to leave.

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[stillcool]

1. wow.

[MagickMuffin]

2. 911, there are a bunch imbeciles blocking access to the hospital.

Come and arrest them for physical violence against patients trying to enter.


ETA:

California in particular has emerged as a hotspot for that type of activity. Just last weekend, Proud Boy associates joined far-right conspiracy theorists outside Wi Spa in LA’s Korea Town, as part of an ongoing protest against the spa’s nondiscrimination policy of accommodating the needs of transgender guests. Reporters at the scene of the spa were assaulted, dozens were arrested, and police later located weapons scattered across the site including knives, pepper spray and stun guns. A protest at the same location earlier this month resulted in two stabbings.

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. This is awful.

These people are just plain mean.

Same with the Karens. Just plain mean clear to the bone.

[ShazzieB]

27. This is way beyond mean.

Mean is too mild a term for this. These "people" are subhuman scum.

[leftyladyfrommo]

29. That too. nt

Why are they protesting at a cancer clinic?

[Hortensis]

32. Yes. "Mean people" are a key indicator of rising RW authoritarianism sentiment.

They want a police state that'll break heads and force others to do as they say.

[leftyladyfrommo]

34. What an awful way to live. nt

[XanaDUer2]

4. I hope they get serious Covid

can't believe I've reached this point.

[Rebl2]

26. I reached

it many months ago

[roamer65]

33. I hope they die from it.

Less CO2 emissions.

[lagomorph777]

5. Analyze the video and arrest them all.

[LisaL]

6. Yep. The woman who attacked a cancer patient is on video.

She should be arrested and charged with assault.

[sop]

7. We're in a new Dark Age.

[woodsprite]

8. My daughter ran into an anti-mask customer at work the other day

She works at a Sherwin-Williams store. The older lady was trying to get my daughter to take off her mask. She kept going on and on about anti mask and anti vax. My daughter told her that she continues to wear the mask because of the Delta variant and the fact that I'm going through chemo and other cancer treatment. She shouldn't have had to explain herself to anybody. Wearing a mask is her choice (greatly encouraged by me, of course).

Wish there was some kind of recourse against these people Ms Burns could seek. The morons are acting the same way the people did in front of Planned Parenthood clinics. I hope the drs/staff and patients have security. They may even need to invest in security to walk their patients into/out of the facility, even escorts to their cars.

[LisaL]

9. In Ms. Burnes cases, the woman who physically attacked her should be charged with assault.

NT

[woodsprite]

23. Hopefully from the video they can find out who the attacker was. nt

[smirkymonkey]

10. This is just sickening!

This is a healthcare issue, FFS!

It needs to stop being a political issue now and republicans need to send a clear message to their base that this kind of bullshit will not stand.

[SergeStorms]

21. Not after MF45 made it a political issue.

And now his minions aren't going to ever see it in any other light. It's a war, in their jaundiced eyes, because that's what MF45 wanted it to be. Everything can be laid directly at his feet.

[ShazzieB]

31. Absolutely.

He politicized the virus, but that's not all he did. He also blatantly modeled cruelty and hatefulness to his followers, setting an example for them to emulate, long before Covid-19 even existed. He is subhuman scum, and he gives other subhuman scum permission to be their worst selves.

[Lovie777]

11. Honestly what is the big deal about wearing masks . . .

it does not take anyone freedoms away but in fact it protect me and others. These people are nuts, and they are violent.

Here's hoping that the cancer patient is ok because in reality that attack was senseless and she was frightened mentally and physically on top of dealing with cancer.

[marble falls]

12. What about her right to wear a mask?

[dalton99a]

17. +1

[movingviolation]

13. (Photo by Nick Stern)

Oh wow, I know him! Very cool guy!

[BeckyDem]

14. Unhinged people terrorizing their community.

These people are not domestic terrorists?

[bahboo]

15. if I was her husband, I'd be in jail right now....

and to think this happened in West Hollywood....jesus...

[Trueblue1968]

16. PUT THEM ALL IN JAIL. THEY ARE VIOLENT. 10 YEARS IN PRISON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dalton99a]

18. Next they'll try to go into the OR and attack the surgery staff for wearing masks

[DanieRains]

19. Paging Rachel Maddow

Paging Rachel Maddow.

[vercetti2021]

20. Honestly

Eventually some of these anti-vaxxing idiots are gonna end up getting their fucking asses kicked eventually. They'll cross the wrong person and end up getting a beating of a life time. Hopefully that is soon.

[Baked Potato]

22. They want to provoke violence to post on social media.

They can put whatever story they want on it and do “whataboutism.”

[Codifer]

24. Where in the holy fuck are the police?

We are in a low-rent zombie movie.

[HootieMcBoob]

25. Ironically

Gavin McInnes, one of the founders of Vice is also the founder of The Proud Boys.

[LittleGirl]

30. What?

How did I not know that? Crap.

[IronLionZion]

28. Their faces are all videotaped

along with their crimes like assault. I understand it's not terrorism if they're white but assault is still a crime. I would back the blue if they arrested these folks.