{"id":88339,"date":"2024-12-19T22:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/internet-reacts-to-nick-fuentes-viral-body-cam-footage-and-his-claim-that-hes-mexican-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T22:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:39:04","slug":"internet-reacts-to-nick-fuentes-viral-body-cam-footage-and-his-claim-that-hes-mexican-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/internet-reacts-to-nick-fuentes-viral-body-cam-footage-and-his-claim-that-hes-mexican-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet reacts to Nick Fuentes&#8217; viral body cam footage and his claim that he&#8217;s Mexican | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Nick Fuentes, a controversial far-right commentator, has ignited widespread online reactions after police body cam footage of his arrest went viral.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the footage, Fuentes denies being a white supremacist by stating, \u201cI\u2019m Mexican. My last name is Fuentes.\u201d The video, recorded during a November 2024 incident, shows Fuentes being questioned by police after pepper-spraying a woman who appeared at his Illinois home following his address being doxxed online.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The footage, uploaded to YouTube by The CrimePiece channel on December 18, quickly garnered over 19,000 views. Social media platforms erupted, with X (formerly Twitter) and Reddit leading the discussions. X user @ApostateProphet shared the video, commenting, \u201cHe folded very quickly,\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/apostateprophet\/status\/1869553980608479680?s=46\">\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">POLICE: &#8220;They&#8217;re saying you&#8217;re a white supremacist?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NICK FUENTES: &#8220;I&#8217;m not a white supremacist. I&#8217;m Mexican. My last name is Fuentes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23 He folded very quickly. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IUtXp85B3V\">pic.twitter.com\/IUtXp85B3V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ridvan Aydemir | Apostate Prophet \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 (@ApostateProphet) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ApostateProphet\/status\/1869553980608479680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Memes ridiculing Fuentes flooded the internet, with captions like \u201cI\u2019m not White, I\u2019m Mexican\u201d and labels such as \u201cBurrito Supremacist\u201d becoming viral trends.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The controversy has reignited debates about Fuentes\u2019 political affiliations and online persona. While some ridicule his statement, others use the footage to question his past rhetoric. Fuentes faces a misdemeanor battery charge for the pepper-spray incident<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Fuentes, a controversial far-right commentator, has ignited widespread online reactions after police body cam footage of his arrest went viral.\u00a0 In the footage, Fuentes denies being a white supremacist by stating, \u201cI\u2019m Mexican. My last name is Fuentes.\u201d The video, recorded during a November 2024 incident, shows Fuentes being questioned by police after pepper-spraying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/Nick-(1)1734646196-0\/Nick-(1)1734646196-0.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}