Video: Attacker in a cape and wizard hat rips down an American flag and beats three people with a cane at a Turning Point event in Texas

A person in a cape and a wizard-style hat tore an American flag off its stand and then attacked a Turning Point USA field representative and two students with a cane at the University of Texas at Tyler on Tuesday, according to video posted by TPUSA Frontlines and reporting by the New York Post.

The attack happened at a "Pick Up the Mic" event, the open-dialogue table Turning Point set up in honor of its assassinated founder, Charlie Kirk. On the video, the attacker screams obscenities at the group, calls them "fascist" and flips them off before swinging the cane at the legs of one man.

Campus police restrained and handcuffed the attacker within moments. UT Tyler President Julie Philley said three people were attacked and that the attacker is not enrolled at the university and faces a criminal trespassing charge. "Everyone has the right to free speech and violence will not be tolerated," she said.

Rep. Nathaniel Moran, R-Texas, thanked the campus police. "The First Amendment protects your right to speak, even to protest. It does not protect assaulting people you disagree with," he said.

It is the second attack on conservative activists on a college campus in about a week, after a University of Michigan student was charged in an attack on influencer Lizzy Benichou in Ann Arbor.