“I lifted my cane to keep her away from me.”
Sounds like assault with a weapon. Too bad, Karen. You initiated the confrontation, then started the physical stuff. The store can’t reasonably be expected to keep you from being an idiot, nor to keep you from the consequences of your idiocy.
She may lose the suit. Then again, sometimes instigators win this kind of crap.
There is video. The victim is a frail old woman who had only a few months prior to the attack undergone a liver transplant. The attacker is a robust-looking, much-younger woman who most definitely initiated the physical confrontation.