Breast Cancer Patient Attacked by Violent Anti-Mask Protest Outside Clinic [View all]

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Tess Owen
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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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