Gas station manager says U.S. flag pole used in Election Day attack

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Source: CNN

New York (CNN) -- Two Turkish-American gas station workers on suburban Long Island say they were assaulted and beaten with a flagpole bearing an American flag on the night of Election Day. Five men face charges in the alleged attack, police said Thursday.

The incident began when some teenagers became angry when they were asked to show identification for a tobacco purchase, said Erdaogan Yavuz, the manager of the OK Gas Station in Wantagh, New York, told CNN.

"My father is a cop and he's going to kill all you guys," one of them said, according to Yavuz. The teens, yelling expletives, left only to return a short time later with two older men. All five began to assault Yavuz and his co-worker, Yuksel Cebeci, Yavuz said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/04/new.york.flagpole.beating/index.html

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This town is just south of Bill O'Reilly's hometown Levittown.

[virgogal]

1. Reminds me of the Boston incident during the busing rage.

[somone]

2. Deja vu

[No Elephants]

3. The more"patriotic," senselessly violent, racist things change, the more they stay the same.