Nick Fuentes is charged with assaulting a Berwyn woman

Nick Fuentes is charged with assaulting a Berwyn woman

Authorities have charged far-right streamer Nick Fuentes with assault after Fuentes allegedly attacked a western suburban woman last month.

Court records show Fuentes, 26, was accused of “knowingly engaging in offensive physical contact” with Marla Rose, 57, also of Berwyn.

Records show Fuentes was fingerprinted at the Berwyn Police Department on Nov. 27 and released that day. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance at the Maywood Courthouse on Dec. 19.

Nick Fuentes, a far-right activist, holds a rally at the Lansing Capitol in Lansing, Michigan on November 11, 2020. (Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News)
Nick Fuentes, a far-right activist, holds a rally in Lansing, Michigan on November 11, 2020. (Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News)

Rose approached Fuentes’ home in Berwyn on November 10, shortly after his address was given in response to his “Your body. My choice. Forever” statements on X, formerly known as Twitter, in an apparent nod to abortion rights after Donald Trump won the presidential election.

Rose, who describes herself as a progressive, claimed in an interview with the Tribune last month that Fuentes opened the door before she could ring the bell, sprayed her with pepper spray, yelled a profanity, grabbed her phone and brought it into the house .

Fuentes, a 2016 Lyons Township High School graduate, is no stranger to controversy. While he said he was not a white supremacist or white nationalist, the federal government called Fuentes a white supremacist in a court document.

In 2017, Fuentes attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. A young woman named Heather Heyer was run over and killed at the rally by an avowed neo-Nazi. Fuentes was also an integral part of Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rallies.

In the 24 hours following his misogynistic post on Strategic Dialogue.

The phrase “Your body, my choice” also appears to have found its way into schools, researchers said.

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