Nick Fuentes, a live streamer known for his controversial far-right views, has been ordered by the court to attend anger management sessions following an altercation involving pepper spray and physical assault. The incident occurred at Fuentes’ home in the Chicago area, where Marla Rose, a 58-year-old woman, was allegedly attacked after she knocked on his door on November 10, 2024.

Rose managed to capture the encounter on video, which reportedly shows Fuentes, 27, using pepper spray on her and pushing her down the steps of his residence in Berwyn, Illinois. This led to Fuentes’ arrest 17 days later on a misdemeanor battery charge. He was released on the same day of his arrest.

In addition to attending anger management, the court has mandated that Fuentes personally apologize to Rose, compensate her $635 for her damaged cellphone, and complete 75 hours of community service by January 23. Highlighting her dissatisfaction with Fuentes’ conduct, Rose remarked in an interview with the Daily Mail, “It can’t be for white supremacists,” alluding to the nature of his required community service.

Along with the court-mandated anger management course, Fuentes must issue a formal apology to Rose in person, compensate her $635 for the cellphone he broke, and complete 75 hours of community service before January 23. 

‘It can’t be for white supremacists,’ Rose quipped in an interview with the Daily Mail, referring to the community service.

Court records show that Fuentes accepted the terms on Tuesday, two days before he was due to appear in court.  As part of the deal there can be no further contact between the two.

Rose, who describes herself as a Jewish feminist activist, is also from Berwyn, a city of 57,000 in Chicago’s western suburbs. But she said she barely knew who the right-wing firebrand was prior to the 2024 presidential election. 

‘My son was 21 so I was loosely aware of Fuentes…I just knew he was in the manosphere and in the world of right-wing trolls, but at that point I couldn’t tell him apart from Ben Shapiro or Matt Walsh,’ she said. 

Nick Fuentes posted his mugshot to X just hours after he was arrested for battery and then advertised that he was selling merchandise with the image

Marla Rose, 58, showed up at the far-right firebrand’s door and says he pepper-sprayed her when she knocked 

‘My friends in Berwyn were talking about him, too, so I became curious. Like, who is this?’

But Rose’s curiosity grew when she saw the controversial post Fuentes shared on X after Trump was re-elected that infuriated women throughout the US.

‘Your body, my choice,’ it read, riffing off the slogan, ‘My body, my choice’ – a defining phrase of the pro-choice movement.

Fuentes’s jeering remark drew more than 90 million views and prompted 35,000 reposts, leading to a massive spike in the use of the phrase across social media platforms.  

An analysis by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) reported a 4,600% increase in mentions of the phrase on X in the days following the election. 

Women across social media reported receiving a flood of comments and private messages using the phrase, leading to widespread reports of online harassment. 

The slogan also moved offline, with some schools reporting incidents of boys directing the phrase at female classmates.

‘I was furious,’ Rose said.

Rose got pictures of Fuentes as he opened the door to his home in Berwyn, Illinois. She said she grew curious about Fuentes following his controversial ‘Your body, my choice’ X post and when she realized they lived in the same Chicago suburb

After discovering they both lived in the same city, Rose decided to go to Fuentes’s house five days later, ostensibly to see if he was still living at the address that had been widely shared online.

‘I had no plan to engage with him,’ she said. ‘I was out in front of his house with my camera on, filming for about five minutes. I was taping a video for my friends. 

‘There was a woman nearby who saw me and encouraged me to walk up to his door.

‘Then I walked up the steps and was just raising my finger to ring the doorbell. I think he had been watching me from inside the house. I had my camera rolling,’ she continued.

‘He flung the door open. I started introducing myself and as I was introducing myself, he sprayed me with Mace, and as I was reacting to that, he put his two hands on my shoulders and pushed me down the steps.’

Rose alleged Fuentes swore at her, grabbed her phone and stomped on it until it broke.

‘It all happened so fast,’ she said.

According to a police report, Rose had no visible physical injuries, but her eyes were ‘watery.’

Fuentes set social media alight after mocking the pro-choice movement in an X post saying, ‘Your body, my choice. Forever’, after Donald Trump was elected last year 

Fuentes is a controversial white supremacist and leader of the ‘Groypers’ – a group of far-right extremists at the heart of an ongoing rupture on the fringes of MAGA

A passerby verified what happened.

Authorities at first hesitated to file charges against Fuentes because Rose was trespassing.

After pressure from Rose and her online supporters who framed Fuentes’s attack as a violent overreaction to a peaceful visit, Fuentes was arrested about two weeks later on a single count of misdemeanor battery, then released the same day.

In a statement shortly after, he told the Chicago Sun-Times: ‘Don’t show up at somebody’s front door looking to cause problems.’

In response to his arrest, Fuentes shared his mugshot on X and wrote: ‘Free me n****’ 

His livestream show, America First, posted: ‘Official Nick mugshot merch. Buy now.’ calling it ‘the most iconic mugshot in history’.

Fuentes – who could not be reached for comment – at first refused to speak to police about what happened. He later asked for records in his case to be sealed.

A group of townsfolk in Berwyn planned to protest his court appearance Thursday

‘The defendant asserts here that the posting of his personal information, on the electronic docket and the physical court file, has created a dangerous and unsafe living condition for the defendant,’ his lawyers filed in a motion.

As Rose tells it, prosecutors told her ‘there’s only so much we can do’ in terms of sentencing Fuentes because he has no prior convictions.

‘You can’t just assault someone and get away with it,’ she said. ‘I just want trolls to know there are consequences.’

Although she said she has been the target of antisemitic slurs and death threats since the incident, she added, ‘I don’t regret anything.’

There even was an upside of her run-in with Fuentes, she noted.

‘My son was proud of me. I earned some cool mom points.’ 

A month after Fuentes’s encounter with Rose, 24-year-old John Lyons, who was a suspect in a triple murder, showed up at his door wearing a motorcycle helmet and carrying a gun and small crossbow, and calling his name.

Police responded and Lyons fled, fatally shooting two dogs belonging to Fuentes’s neighbor before fleeing again, allegedly shooting in the direction of officers pursuing him before they shot and killed him.

It is unclear why Lyons went to Fuentes’s home.

Fuentes, a founder of the ‘Groyper’ movement, has used his platform to deride women, mock feminists, spew rants about ethnic minorities, deny the Holocaust, share his antisemitic views, call for the death of non-Christians and fantasize about the murder of Black people. 

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which watchdogs hate groups, has described him as a ‘white nationalist livestreamer who advocates pulling the Republican party further to the extreme far-right’ and an ‘admirer of fascists’.