Trump supporter charged with assault for beating protester
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The man punched and kicked a protester at Donald Trump’s Tucson rally Saturday.
Tony Pettway, 32, was released later on Saturday.
The incident was captured on video and initially posted to Twitter by University of Arizona student Alex Satterly, who wrote in a subsequent tweet that the protester, who was white, was carrying a sign showing “trumps face with a confederate flag over it.” According to ABC News, the sign also read “Trump is Bad for America.”
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.