Nick Fuentes (Berwyn Police Department).
Body camera footage shows white nationalist Nick Fuentes speaking to police about him pepper spraying and shoving a woman who showed up at his home.
“I’m not a white sup–I’m Mexican. My last name is Fuentes,” he said in a video dated Nov. 10.
Ultimately, he declined to answer questions as to whether he shoved the woman or pepper sprayed her. He said he was getting death and rape threats amid people putting his address online.
He was later arrested for battery.
Fuentes has also recently claimed that he was targeted by a now-dead triple homicide suspect, though police did not immediately confirm if the homicide suspect, John R. Lyons, was the same man seen in footage that Fuentes released.
The victim in the battery case told police in Berwyn, Illinois, that she had shown up to Fuentes’ home that day because of a post he made after Donald Trump won the presidency again.
“Your body, my choice. Forever,” Fuentes wrote mockingly.
The woman told police that she simply rang the doorbell. Fuentes opened up, immediately pepper sprayed her, and in the same movement, he pushed her down the steps, she said. He grabbed her phone and went back inside, she said. She agreed not to return to the home.
As seen in the footage, the initial officer at the scene got the phone back from Fuentes. When the officer began to speak with him in earnest, Fuentes tried to lead him all the way to the backyard. This sparked an argument over where they would talk.
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“Can we do it here, man?” said the officer, standing in the alleyway. “I don’t want to go all the way to the back.”
“No,” said Fuentes, insisting. “She’s going to –”
“No, I’m telling you. Let’s do it here.”
“Let’s do it here,” Fuentes said.
He later said, “You’re not here to help me, I know.” When cops asked him to discuss specifics of the case, he repeated, “No comment,” and said that his attorney would reach out to them.
