Police have arrested a man over an attack on a delivery driver during disorder in Glasgow city centre last month.

A traffic cone was thrown at Muhammad Jawad Yaqoob, 31, following an anti-immigration protest at Glasgow Green on 25 July.

Officers have charged a 29-year-old man with racially-aggravated assault over the incident, which was filmed and widely shared on social media.

He was arrested in the Govan area of the city. Fifteen people were arrested on the day of the protests.

Police Scotland said a major investigation team was trying to identify more suspects and further arrests are planned.

An anti-racism protest had taken place at Glasgow Green before counter-protesters turned up at the scene last month.

Police said “disparate groups” engaged in acts of violence, disorder, intimidation and hate-motivated offences at various locations – all coinciding with the opening weekend of the Commonwealth Games.

The force said 1,700 people were in attendance and an operation was put in place to support public safety and minimise disruption.

Delivery driver Yaqoob previously told BBC Scotland News he felt too afraid to leave his home or return to work after the incident.

He had just picked up an order from the Palm Tree Kitchen on Bridge Street in Glasgow on the Saturday afternoon when he encountered dozens of protestors.

Yaqoob, who moved to Glasgow from Pakistan, told the BBC he has mostly found Scotland to be a welcoming place – but that his recent experience had “not been welcoming at all”.

The video of the attack shows a number of young men shouting abuse before one throws the orange cone. They cheer as Yaquoob runs away from them into a nearby restaurant.

He previously told the BBC: “When I crossed the road away from the crowd a man shouted, ‘you brownie, you Asian, you Pakistani’ and other racial abuse at me.

“One guy then tried to hit me with a traffic cone. So I ran around the back of the shop then Uber sent me a message asking me to complete my delivery.

“Uber didn’t know what had happened to me so I completed my delivery then returned to the shop and said I was going to report it to the police and asked for the CCTV footage.”

Yaqoob said the restaurant did not have CCTV but he reported the incident anyway.

He said when he arrived home and went online he discovered the video of the incident had spread on social media, as far as his home country.

“Now I am so scared, I am upset,” he said.

“I haven’t been able to go back to my work since the incident. I am fearful it will happen again but I have bills to pay so I can’t just sit at home.”

Ch Supt Emma Croft, the divisional commander for Glasgow, is overseeing the police investigation into the recent disorder.

“Members of the public might consider that it’s one arrest following something that happened two weeks ago,” she said.

“But please be assured that the methodical nature of the inquiry takes time and we’d rather have a clear case for prosecution.”

She told BBC Scotland News that officers had trawled through a “significant amount of footage” which identified people they wanted to speak to.

She said the nature of the other alleged offences was “similar” to the traffic-cone attack, adding: “Unfortunately a lot of it had a racial tendency to it which is obviously of great concern to us.”

Ch Supt Croft said that since June, police had arrested 56 people across Scotland for being involved in “incidents in and around protest that have amounted to criminality”.

She warned that more arrests were expected.

“I think we’re all feeling pretty disgruntled with the levels of division within our communities,” she said.

“So it’s absolutely key the public see the level of priority and commitment we’re putting to these types of inquiries.

“Only when we can get these individuals rooted out and identified to the court will our public feel like they are at rest with all of this.”