The VA said in a news release on Thursday it is “taking immediate steps to propose the termination” of the employee, whom it did not name. But Fox News has learned the employee is Linda Turner, an accounting technician at the Memphis VA Medical Center. According to the report, Turner told police the woman and her granddaughter were jaywalking and the woman cursed at her. VA USES TRUMP-SIGNED LAW TO FIRE DC MEDICAL DIRECTOR -- TWICEThe department announced Wednesday they fired Brian Hawkins, the former director of VA Medical Center, under the new law. Despite the appeal, the VA said Wednesday that Hawkins was notified in late August that he was “being proposed for removal.”

Source: Fox News September 21, 2017 21:11 UTC