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Corey Lewandowski, campaign manager for 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks to members of the media before a news conference at the Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., on Friday, March 11, 2016. | Getty Trump campaign manager accused of another physical altercation

Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's campaign manager, appears to have grabbed a protester by the collar during a Trump rally Saturday — but the circumstances surrounding the incident are murky.

A brief video posted on Twitter by CBS correspondent Jacqueleine Alemany shows Lewandowski interacting with a protester at a Trump rally in Arizona.

The clip shows the protester, a young man wearing a checkered shirt, engaged in a heated discussion with Lewandowski and a man in a black pullover to Lewandowsk's left, who gestures at the protester with his right hand.

At one point in the interaction, a hand is placed on the collar of the protester, who is subsequently pulled backward. A still from that video shows the hand on the protester's collar belongs to Lewandowski, but it's not clear whether his hand provided the forceful yank.

Asked about the video, Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks said the protester was actually pulled by the man to Lewandowski's left, noting that this was who the protester reacted to after being pulled back. That man and others around him, Hicks said, were reacting to the protester grabbing a nearby woman wearing a green shirt — an event also depicted in the video.

"Mr. Trump does not condone violence at his rallies, which are private events paid for by the campaign," Hicks wrote in an email.

The controversy is the latest in a string of incidents involving Lewandowski, who is accused of grabbing former Brietbart reporter Michelle Fields during a rally earlier this month. The campaign has denied that Lewandowski did so, and accused Fields of seeking publicity.

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





POLITICO this week documented a pattern of controversial incidents involving Lewandowski. The Trump campaign, POLITICO has also reported, has been employing plainclothes security personnel to police its increasingly chaotic rallies and sniff out protesters.

In a separate incident at the Tucson rally, a protester being led out of the rally was punched and stomped by another attendee, who was subsequently detained by police.