| | Louisiana man says he was beaten for wearing Obama t-shirt
 A Barack Obama supporter in Shreveport, LA says he was badly beaten by two men at a gas station just because of his Obama bumper stickers and t-shirt.
"They were screaming 'fuck Obama, fuck Obama,' you know, and something about a 'nigger president' -- and basically I was hit," Kaylon Johnson told KSLA News. "Seem like some rednecks, pretty big guys, and they were blasting music or whatever -- I mean, by the time I turned around and looked at them, they were on me."
A local Democratic Party blog adds more details about the assault on Johnson, noting that "anyone who's ever been in the Shreveport for Obama office knows him very well as our go-to IT guy and one of the office coordinators."
"On Saturday night at a gas station in Shreveport," blogger Versha Sharma recounts, "he was accosted by two white males who were yelling racial slurs, incensed by the Obama bumper stickers on Kaylon's car and the Obama t-shirt Kaylon was wearing. He waved them off, went into the gas station, and when he came out, they jumped on him."
"Kaylon was badly beaten," the account continues, "and has sustained several head injuries. He will have surgery on Friday to repair a broken eye socket, broken nose, and torn tear duct."
Johnson, who was extremely active in the campaign and even opened a store to sell Obama t-shirts, appeared philosophical about his injuries when he spoke with KSLA. "Things go on every day," Johnson stated, "and all this does is show that we did have purpose throughout the campaign and we still have work to do after the campaign."
The Shreveport Police Department has assigned a detective to investigate the incident.
KSLA has more details here.
This video is from KSLA, broadcast Dec. 8, 2008.
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