DENVER (KDVR) — Boulder police announced Thursday that a man was arrested in connection with an assault using a hockey stick that FOX31 reported on last week, and an arrest affidavit said the victim believes it was politically motivated.

Police responded to investigate the assault on Oct. 23 at about 7 p.m., when officers were told by the victim, identified in the arrest affidavit as Nathaniel Ellis, that he was hit with a hockey stick across the back of his head. The affidavit said that the officer collected the blade of a wooden hockey stick from the ground.

Ellis told the officer that he was the secretary for the University of Colorado's branch of Turning Point USA, which had just met in the University of Colorado Boulder's Ekekly building. The affidavit reported that Ellis showed the

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