MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A 22-year-old Milwaukee woman says she faced discrimination from a bus driver who was unwilling to accommodate her wheelchair during a recent trip to Madison.
Ebony Lewis, who has arthrogryposis, a muscle disorder where joints are locked in a fixed position with clubbed hands and feet, recorded her interaction with a Badger Bus driver during Halloween weekend after the driver questioned her need for wheelchair accessibility.
"This world is not built for people like me, you know," Lewis said. "It feels like the world should adapt to me, but it's more I'm adapting to the world."
In a cell phone video Lewis recorded, the driver can be heard saying he had no notification about a wheelchair passenger despite Lewis booking her ticket through the company's website with wheelc

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