BERWYN, Ill. — Far-right influencer Nick Fuentes is due in court later this month after a woman accused him of pepper-spraying her when she showed up at his suburban Chicago home following his “Your Body, My Choice” post on X.
According to court documents, the 57-year-old woman approached Fuentes’ home in Berwyn on November 10, shortly after his address was leaked following his post. The Chicago Tribune reports this. Berwyn is a suburb of Chicago with approximately 54,000 residents.
The woman told the newspaper in an interview on November 15 that her friends encouraged her to go to Fuentes’ house to see if the rumors were true that he had received jokes after his post on sidewalk in front of the door. Fuentes’ house. Another woman pulled up in her car and told her to ring the doorbell.
She claimed Fuentes opened the door before she could ring the doorbell, pepper-sprayed her, yelled an expletive and grabbed her phone.
Fuentes, 26, faces a battery charge in connection with the incident, the newspaper reported. He is scheduled to appear in court on December 19. He has posted photos of himself on his X account, along with “Free me (racist slur).”
He did not immediately respond to a message The Associated Press sent him via X on Saturday. Attempts to reach his lawyer, Eduardo Cervantes, were unsuccessful.
Fuentes, a white supremacist who denies the Holocaust, is part of an emboldened group of right-wing “manosphere” influencers who have latched onto Donald Trump’s Republican ideas. presidential victory to amplify misogynistic ridicule and threats online.
Many of them have appropriated the abortion rights slogan “my body, my choice” and turned it into “your body, my choice.” The twist on the wording is largely attributed to Fuentes’ November 5 X-post: “Your body, my choice. Forever.”