A CONSERVATIVE Canadian media outlet is threatening to sue a protester after one of its female journalists was punched in the face while covering the Women’s March on the weekend.

Sheila Gunn Reid, the Alberta bureau chief for The Rebel, was attacked on camera while attempting to interview a protester at the rally, one of many held in cities around the globe to protest US President Donald Trump.

In the video, posted online by the media outlet in a bid to track down the perpetrator, the protester raises his middle finger to the camera. “Ezra Levant, f*** you,” the man says, referring to The Rebel’s founder.

“Do I seem unreasonable to you?” Reid asks. “I’m trying to have a conversation with you.” The man tells her to “go away, get out of my f***ing face”, before appearing to lash out and hit Reid. “You just hit me in the face,” she says.

The man later claimed he punched the camera, not the reporter.

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This leftist thug punched @SheilaGunnReid in the face at the Women's March yesterday. https://t.co/x6Iorrg99t & I'll pay you $1,000. #ableg pic.twitter.com/028ggIuOaU — Ezra Levant 🇨🇦 (@ezralevant) January 22, 2017

“Yesterday our Alberta bureau chief, Sheila Gunn Reid, was hit in the face by an NDP [New Democratic Party] thug, right on the steps of the Alberta Legislature,” Levant wrote.

“Sheila had gone there to report on a left-wing ‘Women’s March’. It was basically an NDP rally against Donald Trump. So: the usual professional protesters from the left.

“Of course, the event was dominated by NDP men. One of them saw Sheila, and recognised her from The Rebel. He started arguing with her; then swearing at her; then he said he’d hit her — and then he did.”

We found you. Dion Bews from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. You can't punch a woman and get away with it. @TheRebelTV @SheilaGunnReid pic.twitter.com/u0Wgr3Dxro — Truth Bombers (@Truth_Bombers) January 23, 2017

Following a tip-off, the man was identified as Dion Bews from Edmonton, who runs a “handcrafted acoustic guitar” business.

After his social media profiles and business website were taken down, a Twitter account apparently belonging to Bews apologised but said he punched the camera, not Reid. “I apologise straight up but: punched cam not her. Pls correct this story. Will pay for cam,” he tweeted.

I apologize straight up but: punched cam not her. Pls correct this story. Will pay for cam. @Truth_Bombers @TheRebelTV @SheilaGunnReid — Dion Bews (@dionbew) January 23, 2017

20:20 hindsight, can't take back mistake but can apologize @jamietaggarts — Dion Bews (@dionbew) January 23, 2017

Thnx 4 support. I apologized 100%. Learnt big lesson- don't retaliate, EVER! Peace everyone. No more fighting pls. https://t.co/3tfSP4HUej — Dion Bews (@dionbew) January 23, 2017

It came after a number of other violent incidents on inauguration day, including an anti-Trump demonstrator lighting a female Trump supporter’s hair on fire, a Trump supporter being punched and tackled after extinguishing a fire lit by demonstrators, and white nationalist Richard Spencer being punched in the face during a live interview.

Trump supporter tries to put out the fire, gets attacked. pic.twitter.com/kRohT5xvol — AJ Vicens (@AJVicens) January 20, 2017