The incident occurred on Saturday September 12th 2008 around 12:45am. I entered the restaurant/bar to obtain a pack of cigarettes. I went to the bar and asked the bartender for TEN Ones for a Ten dollar bill. The bar area was packed. Every table was filled. It is important that you know what my dress attire for that night was. I was wearing hospital scrubs, Rockport shoes, a jogging jacket (due to the rain) and an OBAMA hat. While waiting for my change a patron (who I later came to find out was one of the owners of the restaurants) blurted out LOUDLY, ? Take that Hat off!! You can?t wear that OBAMA hat in HERE!!!? I looked up to where the voice came from and responded back. ?Yeah, Right.? After receiving my change from the bartender I proceed around the bar to the vending machine to purchase my cigarettes and leave. Unbeknownst to me, the patron that spoke out previously demanded in a stern voice that I removed my hat. Than he continued to blatantly voice political epithets at me about OBAMA so loud that a patron at the one of the tables near the cigarette machine advised me not to pay any attention to the rude comments. Even the off duty bartender who walked by me on his way to the men?s room told me to ignore the comments. I finally reached the vending area to purchase my cigarettes but to my surprise that patron was right behind me and forcible tried to remove my OBAMA hat with swipes of his hands. I than made a comment to him that we live in a democracy. To that comment the patron pushed me back and said, ? GET THE F^%*K OUT!? I stopped in my steps and said, ? Please don?t touch me again.? He than pushed me again and said. ? I pay the F*&^CK(*N BILLS in this place NI&*GG$#R! So get out!? He than followed me to the exit step for step and than shoved me out of the door and said, ?GET OUT N&^%GG%$R!!!! And don?t come back!? After I was out of the restaurant he locked the door behind me. ISincerely, Clarence Johnson
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