NEW YORK - A black Muslim teenager says he was beaten on Tuesday night, the Election Day, by four white men furious over Barack Obama’s election as the next US President, according to media reports.

Ali Kamara, 17, was walking home when four white men leaped from a car and started kicking and smashing him with a baseball bat near his home in Staten Island, a New York suburb.

“I see the car coming. They looked at me and said, ‘Obama!’ They were not happy. They had hoodies on. They started hitting me with bats and my body started vibrating,” Kamara, a high school student, was quoted as saying.

Kamara said he tried to cover the back of his head, and broke away from his attackers. He managed to jump over a neighbour’s fence to hide.
When the attackers finally drove off, Kamara crept back to his home.
“I was bleeding all over. I did not know them,” the teen said. “I think it was a racist crime.”

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