Summary
Police in Berwyn, Illinois, responded to an altercation involving white nationalist Nick Fuentes and Marla Rose, a woman who reportedly confronted him at his home after his address was doxxed.
Rose claims Fuentes sprayed her with a liquid, took her phone, and pushed her. She posted and later deleted a video of the incident and has since faced online harassment, including “swatting.”
Both Rose and Fuentes are currently refusing to cooperate with police, leaving the investigation stalled.
Fuentes and far-right commentators defended his actions, citing self-defense.
Non-zero chance there’s lots of Fuentes fans amongst that group. She’s probably already getting a bunch of death threats virtually, why would you want that in person as well. Especially when you know that as things are dragged out through the legal system it’s not going to end up mattering anyway because that flavor of person doesn’t appear to have legal culpability for anything.
Doesn’t bode well for the future.
Yeah, in general I am not hearing nearly enough about the high numbers of MAGA people in the police and the military. I’m not sure most folks have considered the gravity of that tendency.
I have seen arguments like “well let’s see Trump try X or Y; I’m sure the military would step in”. But like, what? If the military steps in it certainly won’t be to stop Trump. Quite the opposite.
Military actually leaned Biden in 2020:
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/08/31/as-trumps-popularity-slips-in-latest-military-times-poll-more-troops-say-theyll-vote-for-biden/
Not sure how things stand in 2024 but I can’t imagine Trump shitting on a bunch of generals who called him a fascist would help much.
Military veterans seem to support Trump more though, not sure why specifically. And lots of vets in the police. So that might be a different story.
I’d argue he is aware of this, though, which is probably why he is looking towards purging various groups of ideological mismatches.