Woman with prosthetic leg attacked over parking space

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Susan describes a man slamming her car door onto her in a disputeover a parking spot. (CBC)

Vancouver police are looking for two men who allegedly attacked awoman with a prosthetic leg during a dispute over a parking spotfor people with disabilities.

Susan, who didn't want her last name published, was trying to parkin a space for people with disabilities outside a London Drugs onDavie Street in the west end on Canada Day, Const. Tim Fanning saidWednesday.

Two muscular, able-bodied men scooped the spot, parked theirvehicle in the designated spot for people with disabilities,Fanning said.

Susan parked her car on a regular spot next to the men's vehicle.

She left a note on the windshield of the men's vehicle, remindingthem that it's illegal to park in a spot for people withdisabilities without a permit, Fanning said.

When the pair returned, she tried to reason with them, she said.One of the men exploded with anger, she said. Vancouver police say the two men in ball caps in this image from asurveillance video were involved in an assault on a disabled womanon Canada Day. (Vancouver Police Department)

"He just keeps swearing at me. He puts his parcel down in the backseat and then he goes to the front. I'm standing here.⬦ So hewhacks me into the door" of her car, she told CBC News Wednesday.

When the man noticed that she had put a note on their car, heslammed her with the door, she said.

"He threw the ripped-up notice in my car and he pushed me again. Ididn't get up. I stayed down," Susan said, adding she was slightlyhurt.

Vancouver police released photos of two men taken from surveillancefootage at the drug store.

Police said the man who allegedly slammed her in the car door wasabout 5 foot 9 inches tall, 25 to 30 years old, dark-skinned,clean-shaven and had a muscular build. He was wearing atight-fitting black T-shirt, a black baseball cap, blue jeans andwhite sneakers.

The other man was tall and slender, about 25 to 30 years old, andhad a small tattoo on the top of his left wrist. He was wearing akhaki baseball cap, a grey T-shirt, three-quarter-length green orgrey cargo pants and black and silver sneakers.