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Occupy DC Protestors Heckle, Harass Wheelchair-Bound Woman | CNSnews.com
When Occupy D.C. protesters stormed the Washington Convention Center on Nov. 4 to disrupt an Americans for Prosperity event, they blocked numerous exit doors and prevented Melissa Ortiz, wheelchair-bound with a service dog in her lap, from exiting the building. They also repeatedly harassed, heckled, and mocked her, she told CNSNews.com.
Ortiz is a volunteer for the conservative AFP group. The organization held its "Defending the American Dream Summit" at the DC Convention Center on Nov. 4-5. Ortiz, who has a congenital neurological malformation and is wheelchair-bound, was on her way out of the Convention Center around 10:00 p.m. to take her service dog for a walk when the protestors approached the building.
They kept yelling, “We are the 99 percent,” Ortiz told CNSNews.com. “The security guard said to me, ‘we really don’t want you to leave the building.’”
“They were across the street and they looked like angry dogs straining at the leash, waiting to go hunting,” recounted Ortiz. “The tension and the anger was palpable.”
"There was just this mass of protesters and they were yelling and saying things like, ‘these people don’t care about you … you should come out here and be with us … we care about people with disabilities … we care about the fact that you need to be taken care of,’ which flies in the face of everything I’m about,” said Ortiz.
“I don’t want to be taken care of,” she said. “I want the government to get out of my way and let me make my way.”
i'm waiting for truthmatters to come in and post something about how the republicans don't want the poor to vote.
I'm waiting for Truthmatters to come in and post something about how the republicans don't want the poor to vote.
What cowards! This is a brave conservative Latino women in a wheel chair. She is my new hero, because of what she said (highlighted below)!
Violent OWS Protesters Prevent Woman in Wheelchair From Leaving Event - YouTube
Occupy DC Protestors Heckle, Harass Wheelchair-Bound Woman | CNSnews.com
When Occupy D.C. protesters stormed the Washington Convention Center on Nov. 4 to disrupt an Americans for Prosperity event, they blocked numerous exit doors and prevented Melissa Ortiz, wheelchair-bound with a service dog in her lap, from exiting the building. They also repeatedly harassed, heckled, and mocked her, she told CNSNews.com.
Ortiz is a volunteer for the conservative AFP group. The organization held its "Defending the American Dream Summit" at the DC Convention Center on Nov. 4-5. Ortiz, who has a congenital neurological malformation and is wheelchair-bound, was on her way out of the Convention Center around 10:00 p.m. to take her service dog for a walk when the protestors approached the building.
They kept yelling, We are the 99 percent, Ortiz told CNSNews.com. The security guard said to me, we really dont want you to leave the building.
They were across the street and they looked like angry dogs straining at the leash, waiting to go hunting, recounted Ortiz. The tension and the anger was palpable.
"There was just this mass of protesters and they were yelling and saying things like, these people dont care about you you should come out here and be with us we care about people with disabilities we care about the fact that you need to be taken care of, which flies in the face of everything Im about, said Ortiz.
I dont want to be taken care of, she said. I want the government to get out of my way and let me make my way.
What cowards! This is a brave conservative Latino women in a wheel chair. She is my new hero, because of what she said (highlighted below)!
Violent OWS Protesters Prevent Woman in Wheelchair From Leaving Event - YouTube
Occupy DC Protestors Heckle, Harass Wheelchair-Bound Woman | CNSnews.com
When Occupy D.C. protesters stormed the Washington Convention Center on Nov. 4 to disrupt an Americans for Prosperity event, they blocked numerous exit doors and prevented Melissa Ortiz, wheelchair-bound with a service dog in her lap, from exiting the building. They also repeatedly harassed, heckled, and mocked her, she told CNSNews.com.
Ortiz is a volunteer for the conservative AFP group. The organization held its "Defending the American Dream Summit" at the DC Convention Center on Nov. 4-5. Ortiz, who has a congenital neurological malformation and is wheelchair-bound, was on her way out of the Convention Center around 10:00 p.m. to take her service dog for a walk when the protestors approached the building.
They kept yelling, We are the 99 percent, Ortiz told CNSNews.com. The security guard said to me, we really dont want you to leave the building.
They were across the street and they looked like angry dogs straining at the leash, waiting to go hunting, recounted Ortiz. The tension and the anger was palpable.
"There was just this mass of protesters and they were yelling and saying things like, these people dont care about you you should come out here and be with us we care about people with disabilities we care about the fact that you need to be taken care of, which flies in the face of everything Im about, said Ortiz.
I dont want to be taken care of, she said. I want the government to get out of my way and let me make my way.
