Teen Allegedly Attacked For Wearing MAGA Hat

A teen was allegedly verbally attacked and assaulted for wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat at a Whataburger outlet off Nacogdoches Road and Thousand Oaks, San Antonio, on Tuesday night.

Sixteen-year-old Hunter Richard was at the outlet with his friend when the alleged incident happened. In a video posted by his friend's mother, a man is seen throwing his drink at the table and shouting a racial slur before leaving the restaurant with the teen's hat. Richard said the man also pulled his hair during the assault.

"I support my President and if you don’t let’s 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," he said, local daily News4 reported.

"I didn’t think it was going to generate the amount like what people are doing, I was looking at the comments by some people and 'they are like this is uncalled for' and other people are like mixed opinions but I didn’t think it would blow up to what it is now," he added.

Patricia Spittler, who posted the video on her Facebook page, claimed that the man got furious at her son and his friend because one of them was wearing a MAGA hat. She requested people to help identify the man.

"His friend was wearing a patriotic hat, and this happened! It would be nice to know who he is for someone to let him know his actions are not okay! Real tough guy... approaches a group of teenagers minding their own business just having a burger! He kept his hat, too," she wrote.

The video went viral and was viewed nearly two million times and shared almost 50,000 times at the time of publishing this story.

In May, a black person was verbally attacked and threatened by employees at a Cheesecake Factory in Miami for wearing a MAGA hat. The victim, 22-year-old Eugenior Joseph, was dining with his girlfriend's family when a woman employee walked up to him and signaled her colleagues to come over pointing at the hat.

“She was pointing at him, calling her other co-workers, telling them to look at this guy wearing a Make America Great Again hat,” a witness said adding that all the other employees joined her and threatened to knock his head.

"I got up and went to the restroom, my girlfriend followed me, and as we were walking back, a group of the employees came out from the back and they just started clapping and yelling, and just screaming things at me," Joseph said.

“No guest should ever feel unwelcome in one of our restaurants and we are taking this matter very seriously. Upon learning of this incident, we immediately apologized to the guests in person. The individuals involved have been suspended pending the results of our investigation,” Cheesecake Factory said in a statement on its Twitter page.