ST. LOUIS, MO. (AP) -- Protesters are demanding justice for a man who claims he was injured during a melee that erupted when audience members at a St. Louis-area aging forum began yelling about health care reform.
Six people were arrested after the event Thursday in Mehlville. Thirty-eight-year-old Kenneth Gladney of St. Louis claims that
members of the Service Employees International Union attacked him. But members of the union, which supports the president's plans, say the politically conservative Gladney initiated the fight.
On Saturday, Gladney and his backers went to the union offices. Gladney sat in a wheelchair, his knee bandaged, holding a flag that read: "Don't Tread on Me." The union offices weren't open, and the union didn't send members to attend.
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