Right-wing activist Nick Fuentes has reportedly been charged with battery following an incident last month in which he allegedly maced an activist who came to his suburban Chicago home.
A Berwyn Police Department report obtained by the Smoking Gun shows Fuentes was booked Nov. 27 — two weeks after the incident — and is expected to appear in court on Dec. 19. The booking took less than an hour, according to that report.
Fuentes’s home address was posted online after he made chauvinistic comments on social media when Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election.
“Your body, my choice. Forever,” the 26-year-old provocateur tauntingly told abortion rights activists.
That sentiment was not appreciated by many women, including local woman Marla Rose, who went to Fuentes’s Berwyn, Ill., home and asked why he made the remark.
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Nick Fuentes has reportedly been charged with battery. (Photo by WILLIAM EDWARDS/AFP via Getty Images)
Rose’s husband provided video to the Daily News that seems to show the far-right pundit opening his door and spraying Rose with some kind of liquid before seizing her phone as she dropped to the ground. The video ends with Fuentes stomping on the device.
Rose’s husband told the Daily News at the time that he and his wife filed a police report and planned to hire a lawyer. Police in Berwyn, Ill., said neither party was initially cooperating in its investigation. They hadn’t yet seen video of the incident — which had to be retrieved from Rose’s damaged phone — so no charges were immediately filed.
Well-known within MAGA circles for his toxic rhetoric, Fuentes became a national figure in November 2022 when he and rapper Ye dined with Donald Trump at the President-elect’s Florida home. In addition to insulting women in his online broadcasts, Fuentes has pushed racism and Holocaust denialism.
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