Detroit Free Press web team

A man waving a Confederate flag outside Donald Trump's speech today at Cobo Center was tackled by protesters.

About 200 protesters had gathered outside Cobo to protest Donald Trump's visit to Detroit, where he was delivering a major speech on economic policy to more than 1,500 members and guests of the Detroit Economic Club.

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The man, who can be seen in the video above, wears a black T-shirt lettered with TRUMP and waves a large Confederate flag. Our video shows several Trump protesters, some holding picketing signs, trying to wrench the flag from his grasp. As the unidentified man hits the pavement, Detroit Police officers struggle to break up the scuffle. The man then seems to be detained by police officers.

Detroit Police Commander Elvin Barren said the man with the flag was expressing his political views and "people took exception" to it.

"Someone grabbed it. Someone let it go. He fell," Barren said.

The man stood up and walked behind a barricade of police officers on horseback. He was handcuffed, keeping his flag in hand. Then police released him because they found no crime to have been committed.

"Witnesses said there was no fight, only a tussle," Barren said.