It's come to this: Someone actually threw a tomato at Donald Trump

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Emily Cahn
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WASHINGTON — An Iowa man was arrested Tuesday night after he allegedly threw tomatoes at Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa City.

Andrew Joseph Alemao, 28, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for the tomato-throwing incident, according to a local ABC News affiliate.

The remains of a tomato lobbed at Donald Trump, and other images from Iowa https://t.co/Y5qKoWEpmO pic.twitter.com/SzETN46RwO— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) January 27, 2016

Protesters have become a regular fixture at Trump events, disrupting packed arenas and auditoriums with chants decrying Trump's rhetoric.

But Tuesday's tomato-tossing seemed to be a new one. Spoiler alert: Alemao missed. You can see tomatoes whiz by in the first ten seconds of this video, from RT.

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