Shepard Fairey beaten up after spat over controversial Danish mural

Artist best known for the posters that helped elect Barack Obama is accused of peddling pro-government propaganda"I have a black eye and a bruised rib," Fairey told the Guardian. According to reports, 41-year-old Fairey and his colleague Romeo Trinidad were punched and kicked by at least two men outside the Kodboderne 18 nightclub in the early hours of last Saturday morning. Fairey claims the men called him "Obama illuminati" and ordered him to "go back to America". - Xan Brooks, Dominic Rushe in New York and Lars Eriksen in Copenhagen



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