CONSEQUENCES

Nick Fuentes Charged With Battery After Allegedly Macing, Shoving Woman

The incident occurred outside his Chicago-area home last month.

White nationalist and antisemitic podcaster Nick Fuentes was charged with battery last week after he allegedly assaulted a woman outside his Chicago-area home earlier in November. According to a Berwyn Police Department report obtained by The Smoking Gun, the woman, 57-year-old Marla Rose, said Fuentes “opened the door and immediately sprayed her face with pepper spray and pushed her with both hands on her upper body, causing her to fall backwards down the stairs and onto the concrete below.” Fuentes then grabbed her phone and went inside before coming back out with it moments later, according to the report. Video of the incident circulated online Friday, and Fuentes posted his apparent mugshot. Rose told the responding officer she had seen Fuentes’ post about abortion reading “Your body, my choice. Forever,” and initially wanted to record video of his property. A witness then encouraged her to speak with Fuentes, according to the report. Fuentes, the report states, told the responding officer he “posted a political joke online” and has since receiving death threats and unwanted visitors. He then “became uncooperative,” the report notes. Fuentes was charged and released on Nov. 27, and has a court date of Dec. 19.