Disabled woman assaulted at health care town hall meeting

Aug 17 2009

The National Inflation Association today released the following statement to its http://inflation.us members:

After releasing our article on Friday discussing how violence at health care town hall meetings could escalate, we attended a health care protest at Senator Dianne Feinstein's office in West Los Angeles, where we met a disabled woman, Kimberly King.

Kimberly King currently has a ruptured spinal wire from a spinal implant and will be having her seventh surgery since 2001 within the next week. The story that she told us on video was startling.

Kimberly attended a health care protest on August 11th in Alhambra, CA, and the Alhambra police positioned her right in front of the barricade next to where Congressman Adam Schiff was to be situated. At 5:30PM, she needed to use the restroom, and her husband remained in his seat. Upon returning from the restroom, a group of pro-reform women were standing in front of her seat, waving their ready-made ACORN designed signs. Her husband courteously tapped one of them on their shoulder and asked them to move, as she needed her seat.

The woman ignored him and said "excuse me" three times, then looked at Kimberly and said, "You can sit over there where the other handicaps are sitting." Kimberly said, "I need my chair now!" as her arm was giving out and she was getting ready to fall. Her husband screamed, "Move!" The woman standing in the way then said, "No! We don't have to move anywhere!" Kimberly had no choice but to shove her aside with her walker because she was about to fall, and the woman then stomped Kimberly's foot, causing her to collapse and scream in pain.

The woman then started to mock Kimberly, laughing at her condition and suggesting she was faking it. Kimberly said in tears, "You want everyone taken care of, and you're so concerned about others' well being, but you were more than happy to let me fall on the concrete and then step on me!" The woman and her friends then surrounded Kimberly, stared her down, bumped into her and tried to knock her attached sign off her walker.

YouTube was kind enough to feature our video of Kimberly on their homepage Sunday evening, but the mainstream media refuses to cover this story. To see our video of Kimberly, please visit our video page on http://inflation.us.