Police are investigating a report of a man being assaulted by a group of people protesting President-elect Donald Trump in St. Paul on Wednesday night.

Police were called to Regions Hospital about 10:30 p.m. after a man checked in with facial injuries.

The 42-year-old man told police he had just gotten off the Green Line light rail’s Dale Street stop and was walking on the University Avenue sidewalk near Marion Avenue when he was approached by four people, whom he estimated to be in their late teens.

The man said the four accused him of voting for Trump, and the man replied that he did not, according to a police report.

The group — including three young black men and a young white woman — continued to badger him, noting he was white, so he must have voted for Trump, police said.

They then accused him of sympathizing with police, and the man said he didn’t have a problem with police, had never been arrested, and had no reason to dislike them.

He told the group that he was gay, so he made a habit of not judging others because he didn’t want to be judged.

Two of the men then hurled slurs about the man’s sexuality and punched him in the face repeatedly, he told police.

Police observed that the man’s face was badly bruised and swollen under one eye, and the man noted that he recently had eye surgery, and was in great pain.

The man asked police not to release his name as he feared for his safety.

When the man did not fight back, the group veered away to join the protesters, and the man fled.

Police have made no arrests in the incident.

On Wednesday evening, hundreds marched down University Avenue from the state Capitol in St. Paul. Similar protests erupted across the country in response to the Republican Trump’s upset victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.