GREENFIELD (WITI) -- A fight over a handicapped parking spot sent an elderly woman to the hospital! It happened at the Walmart store on W. Layton Avenue in Greenfield. The suspect is accused of using her chest to knock a 71-year-old woman to the ground in a fight over a handicapped parking spot. John Rawlings of West Allis says growing up, he was taught a valuable lesson. "It doesn`t matter who is in the right and who is in the wrong. You should treat everybody as you want to be treated," Rawlings said. That lesson is the first thing he thought of when he saw the fight during a recent trip to Walmart. "I saw this other vehicle parked behind this SUV," Rawlings said. According to a police report. 32-year-old Kezia Perkins was attempting to park in a handicapped spot at the Greenfield Walmart store. She couldn't make the turn, and that's when the 71-year-old woman pulled in. "They both had handicapped tags.  The older lady took the spot," Rawlings said.

CLICK HERE to read more on charges filed against Kezia Perkins This apparently angered Perkins. Surveillance photos show Perkins going up to the victim's car and yelling through the passenger side window. After waiting a moment, the 71-year-old woman exited her vehicle, and Perkins approached her. "This lady chest-butted," Rawlings said. A nearby officer was flagged down. Perkins allegedly told police "it's not my fault the elderly woman bounced off my big (chest)." When police ran her license, they found it is suspended and Perkins' handicapped placard isn't valid. That placard wasn't even registered in Perkins' name, police say. Rawlings says he tended to the victim, who was lying on the snowy pavement. "From what she told me when I was tending to her, she just had hip surgery done.  It may have come undone," Rawlings said. According to police, the woman ended up going through five hours of surgery after she was attacked. The attack allegedly caused fractures to her femur and the need for a second hip replacement.

FOX6 News spoke with the victim, and she says she expects "months of physical therapy." She says she has a lawyer, and wishes this whole incident would "go away," calling it "a tragedy." Perkins is being charged with aggravated battery. FOX6 News reached out to her lawyer for comment, and he has issued this statement: "We maintain Ms. Perkins' innocence relating to the charges that have been brought by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office. fitted chair covers amazonThis was an unfortunate accident that came about after a misunderstanding between two individuals.  buy hon office chairMs. Perkins is, herself, disabled, however the fact that her disability is not immediately noticeable led to confusion between the two women.chair cushions for rent

More than anything, this case highlights the need for individuals to be aware of and sensitive to the fact that many people may suffer from disabilities and ailments that are not always readily noticeable.  We believe that the facts will come out as this matter progresses and that ultimately Ms. Perkins will be cleared of the charges in this case." Perkins will be in court next week.lazy boy chair historyPhoto by Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Imageslift chairs for rent Should the public know how much money Walmart—or for that matter, the convenience store down the street—takes in through the federal food stamp program? chairs for sale in derbyOr does that information amount to a retail trade secret? Those are the questions at the heart of a request for public comment announced yesterday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which runs the food stamp program.

Last year we spent $76 billion in taxpayer money on food stamps, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. That money goes to about 47 million low-income Americans, who use it to buy food at more than 250,000 retail stores across the country. But as Marketplace and Slate have reported before, exactly which stores and which companies benefit most from those food stamp dollars is something the federal government has never disclosed. Officials argue that they are required by law to keep the information secret in order to protect retailers. A few years ago, South Dakota newspaper the Argus Leader sued the USDA, arguing the public has a right to see this data. The issue is still tied up in court. Last spring, when I interviewed Agriculture Undersecretary Kevin Concannon about the issue, he spoke positively on the idea of greater transparency. “I think personally it’s in the interest of the American public,” he said. “These are public benefits that are moving through the economy.”

When I asked him whether he would push his agency to disclose the information, he said he needed to “talk to the lawyers.” Judging from the USDA’s announcement Monday, the lawyers have been consulted. In the press release announcing the agency’s request for public input, Concannon said: Our goal is to provide more transparency so that people can have access to basic information about the amount of SNAP benefits that individual grocery stores and retailers are redeeming. We hope that this public comment period will be informative as to how we can do that in the most thoughtful and appropriate way possible. The USDA will take public comment on the issue until Sept. 8. As for what kind of comments might come in, we have some clues already. When I asked Walmart spokesman David Tovar last spring about how much revenue his company took in from food stamps, he told me it was proprietary information. “We don’t provide our market-share data on any categories like that,” he said.

Tovar pointed out that knowing how much a particular Walmart in a particular location makes in food stamps could be unduly helpful to competitors. In addition to being the nation’s largest retailer, Walmart likely takes in the most food stamp dollars—an estimated 18 percent last year, according to leaked comments from a company vice president at a private dinner last fall, which Walmart later confirmed. That sum would amount to $13 billion, or about 4 percent of Walmart’s total U.S. sales. Walmart is also one of several retailers that have a significant number of employees who make little enough that they rely on food stamps to get by. In Ohio, up to 15 percent of Walmart’s workforce uses SNAP, based on our analysis of state food stamp enrollment data. Outside the retail community, there are voices advocating for making the data public. “It could be used to improve SNAP and make it more accessible to poor families,” writes Stacy Cloyd, the senior domestic policy analyst at the Bread for the World Institute, an anti-hunger organization.

Knowing which stores attract the most SNAP customers would “allow hunger advocates to learn from successful businesses and share best practices. It would also help them identify the highest-volume vendors so that they can offer the stores information and recommendations on how they can supply a variety of nutritious foods,” she writes. As Jonathan Ellis, the South Dakota journalist who sued the USDA to make food stamp data public, points out, “Typically, if a business participates in a government program, you can get a copy of their contract and find out how much they’re being paid.” That’s how it works when the government pays a construction company to build a bridge or a defense contractor to build a fighter plane. But that’s not how it works when the government reimburses retail companies that participate in the federal food stamp program—at least for now. This story was produced in conjunction with Marketplace. Listen to Marketplace's full series on food stamps here.