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According to Metro, Ball was at a bar in the city watching the election results roll in. As it became clear that Trump was to become president-elect, Ball alleges that supporters at the bar began to harass him."People started launching homophobic slurs at me from afar," he told Metro. "I mean, I kind of got into it, but I didn't want to provoke them."Ball told Metro that some men in the bar allegedly said to him, "We got a new president, you fucking faggots." Upon leaving the bar, he was allegedly attacked in an alleyway and had a bottle smashed over his head."When I came to, I remember waking up and wiping the blood from my eyes," Ball told Metro, saying that he allegedly fell back from the blow and smashed his head on the concrete. "I called some friends, they picked me up and I went right to the hospital."However, a storm of Tweets and comments on a Facebook post that has gone viral with his story are accusing Ball of perpetrating a hoax, with many pointing out that the blood in the image "looks fake" and that it looks poorly applied."Notice the perfect white watch [in the first photo]. Not a drip of blood on it," one critic told VICE. "In [one] photograph it states [they] were at the ER. Yet he doesn't have a hospital band on his wrist. [T]hey wouldn't let you in a place like the ER without a wristband."Woke up to hear my great friend was physically attacked last night for being gay. 'We have a new president faggot' he was told. I'm hurt. — Bhaveek N. Makan (@TehBhav)November 9, 2016
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