{"id":368295,"date":"2018-07-06T18:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/teen-attacked-for-wearing-make-america-great-again-hat\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T18:18:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T17:18:54","slug":"teen-attacked-for-wearing-make-america-great-again-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/teen-attacked-for-wearing-make-america-great-again-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Attacked for Wearing &#8216;Make America Great Again&#8217; Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Police are investigating after a teen says he was verbally attacked and assaulted at a Whataburger for wearing a Make America Great Again hat.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, you can see a man throw a drink in 16-year-old Hunter Richard&#8217;s face before leaving the restaurant with his hat. Hunter said some of his hair was pulled during the assault.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/embed\/news\/local\/viral-video-shows-teen-attacked-for-wearing-make-american-great-again-hat?external-id=52ecf09a21614fb7aba60b99fd70b0e1\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I support my President and if you don\u2019t let\u2019s have a conversation about it instead of ripping my hat off. I just think a conversation about politics is more productive for the entire whole rather than taking my hat and yelling subjective words to me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter was with his friends at the Whataburger off Nacogdoches and Thousand Oaks Tuesday night when it happened. They say the attack was unprovoked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>EPIC! Don Jr. Offers Teenager Assaulted by Violent Leftist in Texas Restaurant New MAGA Hat SIGNED BY POTUS TRUMP <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Clh2bWXUng\">https:\/\/t.co\/Clh2bWXUng<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gatewaypundit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gatewaypundit<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1015253575440719873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t think it was going to generate the amount like what people are doing, I was looking at the comments by some people and \u201cthey are like this is uncalled for\u201d and other people are like mixed opinions but I didn\u2019t think it would blow up to what it is now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A police report has been filed.<\/p>\n<p>Trump paraphernalia has been at the center of controversy recently. In 2017, a school apologized after a teacher banned students from wearing &#8216;Make America Great Again\u2019 shirts. This past May, Cheesecake Factory employees in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/teen-attacked-for-wearing-make-america-great-again-hat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after a teen says he was verbally attacked and assaulted at a Whataburger for wearing a Make America Great Again hat. In the video, you can see a man throw a drink in 16-year-old Hunter Richard&#8217;s face before leaving the restaurant with his hat. Hunter said some of his hair was pulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}