{"id":3388,"date":"2024-12-08T03:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T03:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-supremacist-who-posted-your-body-my-choice-faces-battery-charge\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T03:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T03:24:21","slug":"white-supremacist-who-posted-your-body-my-choice-faces-battery-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-supremacist-who-posted-your-body-my-choice-faces-battery-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"White supremacist who posted ‘Your body, my choice’ faces battery charge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Far-right provocateur and white nationalist Nick Fuentes<\/a> is facing a misdemeanor<\/a> <\/strong><\/a>battery charge<\/a> after a confrontation with a woman who showed up at his home after he posted the now-viral misogynistic phrase “Your body, my choice” on social media in November.<\/p>\n

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Marla Rose, 57, told police that she went to record Fuentes’ home on Nov. 10 after she saw his controversial social media post and that he pepper-sprayed her, pushed her onto the concrete and broke her phone outside his Chicago-area home in Berwyn, Illinois. According to a police report, which was filed Nov. 11, the woman did not have any visible physical injuries but her eyes were ‘watery.’<\/p>\n

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Fuentes’ posted the phrase — a twist on the pro-abortion rights slogan “My body, my choice” — on X on election night as vote counts showed Donald Trump ahead in several battleground states. His post sparked a wave of outrage across social media, and he was subsequently doxxed<\/a>with <\/strong>his home address shared online. The woman, Rose, had shared a video of what appeared to be part the incident<\/a> on Facebook, though that post has since been removed.<\/p>\n

Fuentes was arrested in late November and released the same day. According to NBC News, Fuentes told police that since he “posted a political joke online,” he has received death threats and people have appeared at his house unannounced. He also told police he was “in fear for his life,” the report said.<\/p>\n

Fuentes did not respond to NBC News’ requests for comment. Rose could not be reached.<\/p>\n

Fuentes is set to make his first court appearance in the case on Dec. 19. On Friday, he posted<\/a> what appeared to be his mug shot on X. His “America First” streaming show began selling clothing<\/a> with his mug shot on it the same day.<\/p>\n

There was a spike in misogynistic and threatening online posts against women<\/a> after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the election, according to a report<\/a> from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue that quoted Fuentes’ post as an example. The 26-year-old has a long history<\/a> of peddling sexist<\/a>antisemitic<\/a> beliefs. He attended the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017, and he addressed a crowd outdoors during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The U.S. government has referred to Fuentes as a white supremacist<\/a> in court documents.<\/p>\n

Yet Fuentes has amassed a huge online platform among other far-right sympathizers and activists. In 2022, he also personally dined with Trump and rapper Ye<\/a>who apologized in 2023 for <\/a>multiple antisemitic remarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Clarissa-Jan Lim<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Clarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking\/trending news blogger for BLN Digital. She was previously a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Far-right provocateur and white nationalist Nick Fuentes is facing a misdemeanor battery charge after a confrontation with a woman who showed up at his home after he posted the now-viral misogynistic phrase “Your body, my choice” on social media in November. NBC News reported: Marla Rose, 57, told police that she went to record Fuentes’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}