HE SEEMS SANE: Wizard-hat-wearing former UT-Tyler student faces assault charges after attacking TPUSA event with cane.
He was identified by law enforcement as Ciro Stephen Tomlian, 19, and booked into the Smith County Jail. He faces two counts of aggravated assault and one count of assault causing bodily injury.
The Smith County Criminal District Attorney’s Office could not be reached for comment Wednesday by The College Fix on what formal charges Tomlian may face. A phone call to the jail spokesperson was also not returned Wednesday.
Tomlian was seen in a video vandalizing a Turning Point USA display, ripping down an American flag, calling the TPUSA members “fascist pieces of sh*t,” and using a prop cane to smack a member’s legs before he was subdued and arrested. He was wearing a cape and some sort of wizard hat at the time.
According to his Instagram account, Tomlian goes by he/they/she pronouns.
Of course.