Nick Fuentes—a known white nationalist, anti-Semitic And self-described incel who became known thanks to unite the far right around Donald Trump– was charged with battery for allegedly spraying mace on a 57-year-old woman and pushing her down the stairs of her suburban Chicago home, according to documents obtained by The Smoking Gun.
The charge stems from an incident that occurred on November 10, when a resident of the municipality of Fuentes went to his residence. Marla Rose, a 57-year-old Berwyn, Illinois resident, learned where Fuentes lived after his address was posted online, the result of widespread backlash against the bigot after he posted “Your body, my choice. Forever» on Twitter following Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Rose told Vice Initially, she only intended to go to the address and see if it had been the subject of protests or received deliveries of diapers or menstrual products, as people online threatened to do. TO DO. Once she arrived, another person who seemed equally curious about Fuentes' house encouraged Rose to ring his doorbell and talk to him.
Rose said she planned to ask Fuentes, “Why do you feel comfortable saying the things you say?” but he opened the door and immediately pepper-sprayed her before she could confront him. He then allegedly pushed her down the three concrete steps that led to his door. “It was obvious he was very scared, probably extremely paranoid,” she told Vice. “I'm 5 feet 1 inch. He's not a big man himself, but I'm 57, he's 26.”
Rose was take a video recording with his phone during the incident, and Fuentes can be seen in the footage grabbing his phone from the ground, taking it home and stomping on it.
The police arrived and took statements from both parties.
According to documents obtained by The Smoking Gun, Fuentes told police he had “posted a political joke online and, for three days, he had been receiving death threats online and people showing up at his house unexpectedly”, and claimed that he “feared for his life”. He reportedly became uncooperative with police when asked about the confrontation with Rose.
Following the incident, which makes national newsRose told police she received a suspicious sealed envelope in the mail that she was nervous to open. When police opened the envelope, they found a number of documents related to Donald Trump, Nick Fuentes and “other memes.” She too posted on Facebook that she and her husband were the subject of a run-up attempt at their home, a harassment tactic intended to get police to respond to a false situation in a given location.
Fuentes is scheduled to appear in court on the battery charge on Dec. 19.
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