WATCH: Wannabe Wizard Attacks Three At TPUSA Event, Gets Reality Check

A wannabe wizard wielding a prop cane reportedly went on the attack at a Turning Point USA event in Texas, attacking and threatening several people in a bizarre campus confrontation that ended with police handcuffing the caped agitator.

The unidentified man was wearing a cape and wizard hat when he pulled the American flag from a stand before attacking a TPUSA representative and two University of Texas at Tyler students on Tuesday, according to TPUSA Frontlines, the conservative group’s journalism outlet.

“Back the f*ck up. Fascist pieces of sh*t,” the man shouted while giving someone the middle finger. “Back up!”

After someone told the disturbed individual, “No one is scared of you,” he snapped and struck a man with his cane.

“That’s assault,” one woman yelled, according to the video, which has amassed millions of views. A bystander quickly subdued the leftist, and campus police handcuffed him.

“I asked them to back up,” the wannabe wizard said, apologizing to law enforcement. “He was approaching me.”

“Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences,” the cape-wearing man said.

UT Tyler President Julie Philley sent a statement to students following the assault, confirming that the individual was not a university student and had assaulted three people, according to local outlet KLTV.  UT Tyler police responded immediately, arrested the individual, and “criminally trespassed him from the university.”

“Everyone has the right to free speech, and violence will not be tolerated at this university,” the college said.

The attack happened at a Pick Up the Mic event – an open-dialogue initiative reminiscent of the work Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk did on college campuses, according to the New York Post.

“We will be pressing charges,” Alanna Kitchens, a TPUSA field representative, said on social media.

Republican Congressman Nathaniel Moran, who represents East Texas, praised law enforcement for quick intervention. “The First Amendment protects your right to speak, even to protest. It does not protect assaulting people you disagree with. Violence has no place on any campus, and it doesn’t represent East Texas,” he said in a statement. 

The bizarre attack is the latest in a string of violent incidents and inflammatory rhetoric directed at the conservative organization, including leftists facing backlash for mocking the September 2025 assassination of Kirk. 

“The stories I hear regularly from students on campus are truly harrowing when it comes to the rise of violence against them–this is just the tip of the iceberg,” Daily Wire host Isabel Brown said. “Pray today for the courageous students doing everything they can to carry on Charlie’s legacy after his death.”

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