A man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat was assaulted while walking in Arizona, the latest in a string of attacks against supporters of President Donald Trump.
Jonathan Sparks said that he was wearing the so-called MAGA hat while walking in Tuscon recently when he was attacked.
“The assailant jumped onto my ankle from behind and so not knowing my ankle was broken into four pieces, I turned around to grab and take the hat back. My hands latched onto the hat.”
The man kept hitting Sparks after they both fell to the ground.
“Then I heard the words Hitler, Nazi, and Trump. He was shouting things like that,” Sparks said. “He came over the top of me and over and over again, he hit me.”
Witnesses ran over and pulled the violent man off of Sparks and held him until police officers arrived. The Tuscon Police Department confirmed the assailant was arrested.
“I was making a statement that I personally believe that Donald Trump is a fantastic president of the United States,” Sparks said. “I think that intolerance to his ideology was the flame.”
Sparks needed to undergo surgery due to the severity of his injuries. He called his attacker an “evil man,” but thanked the bystanders who took action, the paramedics, and the police.
