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WEBVTT PULLED UP ALONGSIDE HIM, AND REPORTS, HE SAYS FOR TEENAGERS PULLED UP ALONGSIDE HIM, AND THAT'S WHEN THE TROUBLE STARTED. >> COULD NOT PUT A STITCH IN IT. GAIL: HE SUFFERED A BROKEN FINGER, AND A NUMBER OF ENTRIES AS HE HELD A SIGN MUCH LIKE THIS ONE SUPPORTING HIS CANDIDATE, DONALD TRUMP. HE SAYS HE WAS IN THIS MEDIAN AT JOHN YOUNG PARKWAY WITH HIS DONALD TRUMP SIGN WHEN A CAR PULLED UP WITH SOME TEENAGERS IN IT AND THEY ASKED TO SIGN THE SIGN. >> KID IN THE BACK WINDOW GRAVITY SIGN AND THEY STARTED TO SPEED OFF AND PULLED ME DOWN THE ROAD ROUGHLY ABOUT 200 FEET. GAIL: HE HAD TO GET STICHES IN EIGHT HIS FOREHEAD, AND HE SHOWED US THE ROAD BURNS FROM BEING DRAGGED. >> THE DRAGGING SHOCKED ME AT FIRST. I SAT THERE BLEEDING ALL OVER THE PLACE THINKING, HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN? THIS IS AMERICA. SOMETHING LIKE THIS, JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE EXERCISING YOUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH. GAIL: A MAN TRIED TO HELP HIM, EVEN CHASED THE CAR DOWN TO THIS NEARBY RACETRACK. HE DID GET A TAG NUMBER. TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY, BARNES SAYS THE TEENS POSTED WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SNAP CHA >> YOU GOT A PEN? >> I THINK IT WAS TOTALLY WRONG WITH THE TEENAGERS THAT DID THIS TO ME AND I HOPE THAT YOU GET CAUGHT AND PAY FOR THIS. I CAN'T USE A PAINT BRUSH I CAN'T EVEN PULL WEEDS IN THE YARD OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. GAIL: THE ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ROBBERY UNIT IS

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A Trump supporter said he was dragged along a busy stretch of roadway and seriously injured. It happened on Election Day as the man stood in the median at John Young and Central Florida parkways. Mark Barnes, of Orlando, was holding a campaign sign to get people to vote for his candidate. "There’s a gash right here on the cheek they couldn’t put a stitch in. They had to cover it up,” Barnes said. Barnes also suffered a broken finger, a sprained thumb and other injuries on Election Day as he held a cardboard sign supporting Donald Trump. Barnes said he was standing in the middle of a median at John Young Parkway and Central Florida Parkway when a car pulled up with four people in it. They made small talk and asked to see and then sign the sign. "Kid in the back window grabbed the sign, started (speeding) off, pulled me down the road," Barnes said. Orange County sheriff’s investigators said the alleged perpetrators pulled Barnes 10 to 15 feet down the road. The four people in the car were three males and one female, officials said, about 18 to 25 years of age. Barnes received eight stitches in his forehead and suffered road burns from being dragged. "The dragging shocked me at first, me bleeding all over the place. How could this happen in the United States of America? Something like this, just because you’re exercising your freedom of speech," Barnes said. A man tried to help him and chased the car down to a nearby RaceTrac convenience store. He got a tag number, but the sheriff’s department is not releasing that right now. Barnes said the teens posted what happened to him on Snapchat. Barnes said what they did was wrong and he hopes they are caught. He said he can’t work because of his injuries. “I can’t use a paint brush, I can’t even pull weeds in the yard, or anything like that,” Barnes added. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office robbery unit is investigating. Detectives are working to identify the suspects.