Police confirmed that they responded to a call involving white nationalist Nick Fuentes and a woman who appeared to show up at his Illinois home Sunday unannounced after he was doxxed online.
Marla Rose, 57, said in a now-deleted Facebook post that she was about to ring Fuentes’ doorbell when he opened the door, sprayed her with a liquid, took her phone, pushed her down the steps and went back inside. Rose did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Rose shared a video of the altercation Tuesday on Facebook. In the video, Fuentes opens the door and points what appears to be a spraying device toward the camera. The person holding the camera says, “Oh, my God, what are you doing?” and the camera seems to be knocked over as Fuentes says, “Get the f— out of here.” Fuentes then grabs the phone, takes it inside the house and appears to lock the door, and the video ends.
The Berwyn Police Department confirmed that it got a call Sunday involving Fuentes and Rose. Deputy Chief Michael Ochsner Jr. said that “at this time, neither party is willing to cooperate with the investigation, so we are unable to take it any further until there is a change to that status.”
On Monday, Fuentes hinted at the incident by reposting an X post by Tristan Tate, alt-right influencer Andrew Tate’s brother, that read, “If a man turned up at a ‘pro choice’ woman’s house to confront her about her views she could literally shoot him dead and nobody would care.” He also reposted an X post by far-right commentator Candace Owens, who wrote about the incident, “She is lucky she wasn’t in a ‘stand your ground’ state or she could have been shot.” Fuentes did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Fuentes has faced a wave of backlash for a post on X on Nov. 5, when he wrote, “Your body, my choice. Forever,” referring to abortion policies. The phrase has become a meme in some right-wing circles. Afterward, many users on X began spreading Fuentes’ personal information online, including his home address and pictures of his house, writing, “Your house, our choice.” Since then, Google Maps has blurred its picture of Fuentes’ house.
In her original deleted post, in which she disclosed Fuentes’ home address multiple times, Rose wrote that she found Fuentes’ information after a friend messaged her his address, seeing that they lived in the same town. Rose wrote that she was inspired to “pop over there” given Fuentes’ history of antisemitic and white supremacist statements.
In an interview with Vice Magazine, Rose said that she showed up at Fuentes’ door “to ask him, ‘Why do you feel comfortable saying the things that you say?’” and that “part of my curiosity about him was being a Jewish person living in a town with an actual, proud Nazi.” Rose also told Vice that her address has started to circulate online.
Rose had written in her deleted Facebook post that she was prompted to ring the doorbell after another woman who was in her car outside Fuentes’ house told her, “You should ring his doorbell and see what he has to say for himself.” She said the same woman called the police after the incident to file a police report. Rose wrote that a police officer called an ambulance to check her eyes but that she did not sustain any major injuries besides “a sore” on her right side, where she said she had fallen. The Berwyn Police Department said it did take a report on the incident but that it has not released it to the public yet.
Rose and her husband, John Beske, have said they have faced harassment since the incident. Beske wrote Tuesday on Facebook that they were “swatted,” a form of harassment in which police are called to a residence without cause.
