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A man accused of assaulting a Toronto Sun photographer at an anti-racism rally in Nathan Phillips Square last weekend has been arrested.

Toronto Police confirm the suspect, Donald Joseph MacLeod, was taken into custody in 52 Division on Saturday — one day before his 29th birthday.

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“He did not turn himself in,” Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook said.

Police issued a news release Thursday — a day after the victim, Stan Behal, filed a complaint to cops — seeking information on the incident that left 63-year-old veteran photographer with a concussion and was captured on video as he and Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy covered a Toronto Against Fascism event on Aug. 11 around 2:30 p.m.

“It is good there has been an arrest for the assault,” Behal said after learning a charge had been laid. “It’s been my only intention to make it safer for working journalists to do their job in this current climate.”

The Antifa-like rally was supposed to be a counter-demonstration to a WCAI (World Coalition Against Islam) Canada rally, an anti-Muslim and so-called “Patriots” group that proclaims to stand “against globalism” and “for Canadian culture preservation,” according to their social media accounts.