ChicagoTribune – Court records show that Fuentes, 26, was accused of having “knowingly made physical contact with an insulting nature” with Marla Rose, 57, also of Berwyn.
Fuentes was fingerprinted Nov. 27 at the Berwyn Police Department, records show, and was released that day. He is set to make his first court appearance at the Maywood courthouse on Dec. 19.
Rose approached Fuentes’ house in Berwyn on Nov. 10, shortly after his address leaked in response to his “Your body. My choice. Forever” statements on X, formerly known as Twitter, in an apparent reference to abortion rights after Donald Trump won the presidential election.
Rose, a self-described progressive, alleged in an interview with the Tribune last month that Fuentes opened the door before she could ring the bell, pepper-sprayed her and screamed an expletive, grabbed her phone and took it into the house.
Fuentes, a 2016 Lyons Township High School graduate, is no stranger to controversy. While he has said he is not a white supremacist or white nationalist, the federal government labeled 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 by an avowed neo-Nazi at the rally. Fuentes also was an integral part of Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rallies.
In the 24 hours following his misogynistic post on X, there was a 4,600% increase in mentions of the phrases “your body, my choice” and “get back in the kitchen” on the social media site, according to analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
