As thousands of soccer fans poured through downtown Boston singing and waving flags Monday night, one young World Cup supporter in the Boston Common ended up on the ground.
He was pinned in the grass and choked for about 40 seconds by a man in a red “Make America Great Again” hat who, a witness said, had trailed Iraqi and Norwegian fans from City Hall while shouting racial slurs.
But Boston police told MassLive the incident unfolded differently — that the unnamed 45-year-old man in the MAGA hat was the one being assaulted as he walked through the common. He was briefly questioned and told to leave, but did not face charges…