'Next thing I knew they were beating the s**t out of me': Man beaten as onlookers shouted anti-Trump taunts said attack unfolded after a crash

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A man who was caught on video while being attacked by three men as onlookers taunted him for voting for Donald Trump said the incident unfolded after a minor traffic accident.

David Wilcox, 49, said on Wednesday he was making a left turn on a road on Chicago's west side when a black sedan scraped the right side of his car.

Wilcox said he stopped and parked his Pontiac Bonneville and asked if the driver had insurance.

'Next thing that I knew they were beating the s**t out of me,' he told the Chicago Tribune.

A video emerged this week showing a man being as onlookers shouted anti-Trump taunts 

While Wilcox told the Tribune he did vote for President-elect Trump, he said no one in the crowd would have known that.

He believes the men attacking him were egged on by the onlookers yelling various anti-Trump taunts, including one person at the bus stop who he claimed said, 'Yeah, it's one of those white guy Trump supporters.'

The less than a minute clip, which circulated online on Wednesday, shows Wilcox in a blue hooded top and jeans, being repeatedly kicked and punched by two black men while onlookers are heard cheering.

'You voted Trump, you voted Trump!' spectators scream at Wilcox who at one point is forced to the ground before getting back up.

The video shows victim David Wilcox, 49, in a blue top and jeans being attacked by several people

The video shows the beating by several people and the audio includes the taunt 'You voted Trump'

The victim is seen trying in vain to get back inside his car throughout the video, while the woman filming the attack is heard encouraging the perpetrators, yelling: 'Beat his a***! Don't vote Trump!' 

Another person is heard shouting: 'You gonna pay for that s****! Don't vote Trump!'

In a subsequent video obtained by the Tribune, one of the attackers gets into the driver's seat of his car as Wilcox tries to get him out.

As people try to shove Wilcox out of the way, he grabs onto the door frame of his car and is dragged along the side of the moving vehicle as the attacker takes off.

Wilcox tried to keep the attacker from driving off and grabbed onto the frame of the car. Moments later the assailant in the driver seat took off and as he held onto the moving car

Wilcox said the attacker in the driver's seat was going between 70 and 80mph and was swerving

Wilcox, who was still holding on as the car sped off, said the attacker in the driver's seat was going between 70 and 80mph and was swerving.

'If I let go, I was dead. He slowed to 45… He tried to push the door open... So he stepped on it again,' Wilcox told the Chicago Tribune.

The assailant in the driver seat of his car got away and Wilcox filed a police report but no arrests had been made as of Thursday.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said officers are investigating the beating and who made the 'politically divisive' statements in the video.

Trump's shock ascent to the White House has sparked protests across the country – with tensions running high on both sides.

This video of Wilcox's attack came as a Muslim student reported to police that she had been viciously attacked on her way to class by two white men, one wearing a 'Trump' cap near the University of Louisiana campus in Lafayette, police said.

The victim reported that the men had hit her with something metal, which knocked her to the ground, and hurled obscene comments at her while continuing to beat her while she was down.

They ripped her hijab, a headscarf worn by some Muslim women, before stealing her wallet, she told police.

Trump's shock ascent to the White House has sparked protests across the country – with tensions running high on both sides. Protesters are shown here in Atlanta on Friday

Police stand in front of people marching through downtown Portland, Oregon to protest the election of president-elect Donald Trump on Friday

On Thursday, police said they were no longer investigating the incident as the student acknowledged she fabricated the report.

A spokesman for the university said a federal privacy law prohibits him from saying whether the student could be disciplined. 

In another incident, a gay Canadian man said he was left covered in blood after being attacked in an alley by a mob of Trump supporters on election night.

Chris Ball claims he was watching the results in a bar in Santa Monica, California, when things started to get heated and people starting making homophobic slurs, including: 'We got a new president, you f***** faggots.'

When he left the bar alone later that night, he was attacked by a group of men in the alley and one smashed a bottle over his head, he told the Calgary Metro.