Friday, November 14, 2008

attacked for wearing a McCain/Palin button

Politics prompted her assault, Augsburg student says

By PAUL WALSH, Star Tribune | Last update: November 12, 2008 - 7:15 AM

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An Augsburg College student and Sarah Palin supporter from Alaska was beaten on election night while walking to her dorm and was called a racist by a group of four young [black] women because she had on a McCain/Palin presidential campaign button, authorities and the victim said.

Annie Grossmann, a freshman on the Minneapolis college's hockey team, suffered blurred vision and is thought to have had a concussion from a punch in the eye, but declined medical attention, she said.

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