Politics & Government

La Grange Park Racist Confronts Woman At Berwyn Home

The woman alleges the Lyons Township High School graduate pepper-sprayed her and pushed her down the stairs.

Nicholas Fuentes, who lives on a street in Berwyn, pushed a woman down his front porch stairs recently. He grew up in La Grange Park.
Nicholas Fuentes, who lives on a street in Berwyn, pushed a woman down his front porch stairs recently. He grew up in La Grange Park. (Google Maps)

BERWYN, IL – Nicholas Fuentes, the self-acknowledged racist who grew up in La Grange Park, recently confronted a woman at his house in Berwyn.

Shortly after Donald Trump's victory, Fuentes angered many when he wrote on social media, "Your body. My choice."

After that, someone doxxed Fuentes, who was Lyons Township High School's student body president before he graduated in 2016. Doxxing means to give personal information such as phone numbers and addresses to the public.

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In a Facebook post last week, Berwyn resident Marla Rose said a friend told her that Fuentes lived in her town.

On Oct. 10, Rose said she shot a two-minute video from the sidewalk in front of Fuentes' house. A woman pulled up in her car, rolled down her window and asked, "Is this where the douchebag lives?" Rose said she replied, "I think so."

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Rose, who is in her mid-50s, said the driver suggested Rose ring the doorbell and see what he had to say for himself. Rose said she has a hard time resisting dares.

"So I rang the doorbell, he immediately swung the door open like he was at damn Waco, sprayed me with a burning liquid (Pepper spray? Mace?) and pushed me down the stairs onto his sidewalk," Rose said. "I rolled into a protective position because I was anticipating kicks or stomps, he grabbed my phone, ran back inside, bolted the door and shut the blinds."

Rose said she had a video, which she was holding onto for evidence. Fuentes can be heard in the video, "Get the f--- out of here."

The woman in the car called police, Rose said.

In a statement, Fuentes told the Chicago Sun-Times, "Don’t show up at somebody’s front door looking to cause problems."

The newspaper reported that the police retrieved Rose's phone from Fuentes.

Last Wednesday, Patch filed a public records request with Berwyn police for the report on the incident. On Monday, the police extended the response time by five days.

In November 2022, Fuentes dined with Trump and the rapper Kanye West at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Four months ago, Fuentes said he wouldn't endorse Trump this time around. He seemed to object to the idea that Trump's running mate JD Vance's wife, Usha Vance, is the child of Indian immigrants.

After the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, Fuentes said on his podcast, "Trump was awesome because he was racist. Trump was awesome because he was sexist. The only thing that Trump wasn't awesome for was being antisemitic. He wasn't antisemitic... People have got to get racist, time to get real."

In fall 2023, Fuentes fantasized about having African Americans killed, saying it would be "awesome."

During the Christmas season that year, Fuentes pushed for the death penalty for non-Christians.

For years, Fuentes aired his podcast from his parents' home in La Grange Park.

In 2022, his mother, Lauren Fuentes, appeared to be a big fan of her son's racist ideology during an appearance on his podcast.

In another episode of his podcast, Fuentes said his father, Bill Fuentes, would not take his family to certain restaurants because he believed they were associated with African Americans. It was a "running joke" in the family, Nicholas Fuentes said.

Only his sister, Melissa Fuentes, appears to have no sympathy for Fuentes' views. She has publicly supported diversity. She also appears to back the LGBTQ community, which her brother reviles.

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