An anti-mask protester has been caught on camera attacking a breast cancer patient outside a Los Angeles clinic, ripping off the woman's face mask and allegedly punching her in her surgery scars.
Footage posted online shows Kate Burns being shoved and hit by a woman with a megaphone on the sidewalk by the Cedars-Sinai Breast Health Services building in West Hollywood Thursday afternoon.
In separate footage, Burns was seen confronting the group of protesters telling them 'you are protesting a breast cancer f**king center' and demanding they leave.
The incident unfolded as dozens of anti-maskers gathered outside the cancer treatment center and harassed patients and doctors, reported Vice.
The group was protesting against the clinic's mask mandate, with several holding signs aloft with anti-vaccine slogans while some wore shirts emblazoned with 'COVID is a scam.'
Footage posted online shows Kate Burns being shoved and hit by a woman with a megaphone on the sidewalk
An anti-mask protester has been caught on camera attacking a breast cancer patient outside a Los Angeles clinic, ripping off the woman's face mask and allegedly punching her in her surgery scars. Pictured the protesters and the patient (front center in black)
The incident unfolded as dozens of anti-maskers gathered outside the Cedars-Sinai Breast Health Services building in West Hollywood Thursday afternoon (seen above) and reportedly harassed patients and doctors
Burns is seen approaching a small group and telling them to leave in a video posted on Twitter by a local videographer Vishal P. Singh.
'I get treated here, get the f**k away,' she shouts.
One protester, who is filming her on his smartphone, is heard asking her why she is so angry.
She replies: 'Because I've just gone through f**king breast cancer. And you motherf**kers are here.'
'That has nothing to do with you. We're trying to help,' one of the men responds.
Burns fires back: 'You are protesting a breast cancer f**king center.
'It has everything to do with me and my community.'
Burns asks whether they know what happens to the immune system when patients undergo cancer treatment.
'Do you know anything about chemotherapy? Do you know what happens to the immune system?' she asks.
In one video, posted by Burns on Twitter, a woman holding a megaphone is seen facing Burns, who is wearing a face mask. She first pushes a person behind Burns as shouting erupts
The woman is then seen shoving Burns, punching her in the stomach and hitting her several
