Ciro Stephen Tomlian, who is not a UT Tyler student, was arrested Tuesday after an altercation at a campus Turning Point USA event.
A man wearing a cape and a wizard-like hat tore down an American flag and swung a cane during a Pick Up the Mic event at the University of Texas at Tyler, and video circulated by TPUSA Frontlines showed him shouting, Fascist pieces of s--t, before the cane struck one mans legs.
University President Julie Philley said three people were assaulted; Frontlines identified the targets as a TPUSA field representative and two students, and said no injuries were reported. A Frontlines post described the suspect as a student, but Philley said the person was not a student at the university.
UT Tyler police arrested Tomlian and criminally trespassed him from campus, the university said. He is charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of assault causing bodily injury, and jail records reported by CBS 19 show he was booked into the Smith County Jail on Tuesday. Everyone has the right to free speech, and violence will not be tolerated at this university, Philley said.
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