Meanwhile Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager, was filmed appearing to grab the collar of another demonstrator

Another demonstrator was also led away while wearing a KKK hood

Pettway, 32, has since been charged with assault over the incident

Bryan Sanders was kicked and punched as he was escorted out of event

A Donald Trump fan who was filmed punching and kicking a protester at a rally in Arizona has been charged with assault.

Tony Pettway, 32, who is African American, was caught on camera attacking white demonstrator Bryan Sanders as he was being escorted out of the Republican event in Tuscon on Saturday.

Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager, also appeared to grab a protester by the collar sparking another confrontation that have become features of Trump's recent campaign events.

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This is the moment a demonstrator being escorted from a Trump rally in Tuscon, Arizona, was sucker-punched by supporter Tony Pettway, 32, who was subsequently arrested

After spotting the violence Trump told the audience it was 'a disgrace' though he appeared to be referencing the protester, adding: 'They're taking away our First Amendment rights. They're troublemakers'

Sgt. Kim Bay, spokeswoman for the Tucson Police Department, said Pettway has now been arrested on a charge of assault with injury.

Sanders was allegedly carrying a sign with Trump's face emblazoned with KKK written across the visage when he was assaulted.

The 33-year-old victim claims he was holding a 'peace sign' when he felt someone grab the placard out of his hand and 'sucker punch' him.

He later said that he was relieved he hadn't been killed in the violent melee at the rally.

'I feel great that I'm not dead, but I am definitely in physical pain,' Sanders told the NY Daily News, adding that he had suffered a swollen jaw and bruised ribcage in the attack.

The altercation on Saturday night is just the latest example of violence erupting at a Trump rally after fight also marred events in North Carolina and Illinois

Pettway was filmed and photographed hitting the demonstrator before he falls to the floor, where Pettway repeatedly kicks him before police step in

A member of security, left, tries to break up a scuffle between the anti-Donald Trump protester and another person

The protester was accompanied by another demonstrator - a woman wearing a white Ku Klux Klan hood in protest of Trump's alleged ties with the white supremacist organization after he delayed in denouncing them.

Bay said Linda Rothman, 67, was also arrested inside the TCC during the rally. Rothman is facing a charge of assault with no injury.

Video footage reveals the shocking moment Pettway launched into the attack on Sanders, who was wearing a stars and stripes shirt as he was escorted out of the rally.

Pettway is seen aggressively ripping the poster of Trump out of Sanders' hands before punching him in the face.

He goes into repeatedly punch and then kick the protester until the fight is broken uo.

Johnny Silvercloud, who was sat next to Pettway at rally, tweeted a picture of the Trump supporter after the incident with the caption: 'Hey, black dude at #TrumpRally in #Tuscon who brutalized protester was right beside me.'

He added that the Trump fan had also claimed to be in the Air Force.

During the same event another demonstrator was filmed speaking with a member of Trump's undercover security alongside Lewandowski before the man is grabbed by the collar from behind.

Video of the incident clearly shows Lewandowski making a grabbing motion at the demonstrator, though he insists it was actually the man to his left that took hold of the man's shirt.

The protester can be seen angrily turning around and pushing the man as Lewandowski lowers his arm back to his side.

Before being taken away the man was filmed shouting at Trump supporters while brandishing a picture of the Republican frontrunner with a Confederate flag printed across his face

Another demonstrator was pictured being led out behind the man who was punched while wearing a KKK-style hood and throwing a Nazi salute

As Trump appears to be closing in on the Republican presidential nomination, protests at his campaign events, which often attract tens of thousands of people, have become more common.

In just 10 days fights have broken out during at least four Trump rallies across North Carolina, Illinois and Arizona, leading to one event at a university in Chicago being cancelled.

A sheriff in North Carolina raised the prospect of charging Trump with inciting a riot after trouble there.

According to NBC News, Trump spoke to the crowd after seeing the protester being hit, saying it was 'a disgrace', though he appeared to be speaking about the protester, rather than the violence.

He said: 'They're taking away our First Amendment rights. They're troublemakers, they're no good, and we have to be careful.

'We've gotta take our country back, folks. We gotta take our country back, very simple.'

Earlier Saturday a large group of demonstrators managed to block the main highway into Fountain Hill, Arizona, in an attempt to disrupt a Trump campaign event there.

Arizonians used cars to block the road into the event Saturday, as thousands of New Yorkers also protested against the Republican candidate in his hometown.

Here is Donald Trump's campaign manager in the Tucson crowd grabbing the collar of a protester. pic.twitter.com/JZ9RntWlHY — Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) March 19, 2016

Elsewhere at the same event, Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski (center left and right, in a suit jacket) was filmed apparently grabbing the collar of one protester who lashes out

Anti-Donald Trump protesters (left) shout as they are removed from the campaign rally

Three people were arrested and will be charged with obstructing a public thoroughfare, a class three misdemeanor, Enriquez said.

The three unidentified individuals were taken to the Fourth Avenue jail in Phoenix. Trump ended up taking the stage about an hour late, and made no mention of the protests against him.

Once he stood before the crowd, he went into a tirade on his usual subjects, focusing on criticizing illegal immigration, a popular issue among his Arizona supporters.

The county's controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio, a Trump supporter who was also tasked with overseeing security, introduced the GOP candidate at the Phoenix rally.

Earlier in the day demonstrators at another Arizona rally, this time in Fountain Hills, used their cars to block the main road into town in an attempt to disrupt his speech

Police said 'there will be some people going to jail' if protesters break the law with their anti-Trump blockade

Aerial shots showed large crowds of anti- and pro-Trump contingents in Pheonix

Courtesy Tucson.com

'We had a little problem. Some demonstrators were trying to disrupt,' the sheriff said to loud boos from the crowd.

'Three of them are in jail,' he continued, to which the crowd broke out in cheers.

About an hour earlier, as the pre-rally protests were going on, Arpaio commented on demonstrators in a phone interview.

'Those opposed to Donald Trump, it's them that's inciting the riots. They don't like our fight against illegal immigration,' Arpaio told MSNBC.

The sheriff said he had 'two missions' - the first one of which was to 'welcome and introduce Donald Trump.'

'Of course, I'm also the sheriff for that town,' said Arpaio, who endorsed Trump in January.

The sheriff is known for his tough stance against illegal immigration, an issue where he sees eye-to-eye with Trump.

Protesters on Shea Boulevard were sweating in 78 degree heat, with temperatures threatening to rise well into the nineties

A Trump supporter in an anti-Hillary tshirt goes through security as he arrives to attend Trump's Phoenix rally

A supporter is told by police he can't wear his Trump face mask before the campaign rally Saturday

Crowds listen to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speak

Trump made no mention of the protests after he took the stage Saturday

WATCH: Protester who cabled himself to car so deputies couldn't tow it is arrested, carried away pic.twitter.com/PAGMFYHxjK — Jacob Rascon (@KPRC2Jacob) March 19, 2016

His jurisdiction includes Phoenix and nearly two-thirds of the population of Arizona, which is 31 percent Latino.

Arpaio's department was successfully sued for racial profiling against Hispanics in 2013, and the decision was largely upheld after a 2015 appeal, the Arizona Republic reported.

The octogenarian is also infamous for erecting a makeshift jail known as Tent City, where non-violent criminals live outside in triple-digit heat and which Amnesty International deemed in violation of human rights, according to Phoenix New Times.

Earlier in the week, sheriff Arpaio told reporters that if protesters 'violate the law, they will go to the tents.'

He was referring to Tent City, which the tough-talking sheriff in the past has described as a 'concentration camp.'

Protesters on Shea Boulevard were sweating in 78 degree heat, with temperatures threatening to rise well into the nineties.

Some unfurled banners that read 'Dump Trump' and 'Must Stop Trump' and chanted 'Trump is Hate.'

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Others said they wanted to keep Trump out of their state

'We're shutting it down. We don't want Donald Trump in Arizona,' one protester said.

'We don't want his hatred,' the man told a reporter with NBC.

Asked if he's worried about going to jail, the man answered: 'That's a risk we're willing to take. If Donald Trump continues and becomes president... More of our families will be hurt.'

'I want to stop Trump. He doesn't have a place in this state,' a female protester who chained herself to her car on Shea Boulevard told NBC.

Video posted minutes later showed police cutting off the cable that she had wrapped around herself, lifting her up, and carrying her away.

Over 3,000 people signed up on Facebook to attend a demonstration dubbed 'Protest Trump in Arizona - Protesta Contra Trump en Arizona.'

'Protesters will be rallying nearby the event to be a visible voice against Trump's rhetoric of racism that is fostering a dangerous and dehumanizing climate in Arizona and across the country,' organizers wrote on the event page.

Another group, Veterans for Peace, was also planning to take a stand Saturday against Trump's 'Islamophobic rhetoric.'

'We have to stand up where we see people speaking this way,' executive director Michael McPhearson told Politico.

Trump is scheduled to speak at a second Arizona event in Tuscon later Saturday afternoon.

Salt Lake Police push protesters back at a rally outside the Infinity Events Center in Salt Lake City Friday

A protester confronts a supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in downtown Salt Lake City as Donald Trump gave his first campaign speech in Utah on Friday

On Friday, protesters clashed with supporters of Donald Trump after he gave a speech in Utah.

Hundreds of people chanted 'Dump Trump' and 'Mr. Hate Out of Our State' as police in riot gear blocked the entrance to the Infinity Events Center in Salt Lake City.

Protesters tried to rush the door and got into dozens of screaming matches with Trump supporters who didn't make into the venue.

At one point, protesters and Trump supporters faced each other in an impromptu dance-off in the street, KSL reported.

One anti-Trump protester said he is angry because he feels Trump is a liar who divides Americans.

'I don't think any Donald Trump supporters can look at themselves with a clear conscience and not think he is a pathological liar,' Jiovan Melendez told KSL.

'We're going backwards if we're not coming together as a nation. Do [people] want a divisive leader or someone who will bring the country together?'

Police said no one was arrested at the protest.

Trump said he loves Mormons in his first public appearance of the campaign in Utah.

He had critical words, though, for former presidential candidate and Utah resident Mitt Romney, who said he was supporting Texas Senator Ted Cruz in the state's upcoming caucuses.