Nicholas Fuentes (pictured), 18, claims he was forced to leave school amid a deluge of death threats
An 18-year-old college student who participated in the ‘Unite The Right’ demonstrations in Charlottesville last week says he was forced to leave school after receiving a deluge of death threats.
Nicholas Fuentes said that he decided to abandon his studies at Boston University after being threatened for his views, telling Fox News that he does not feel safe at the campus.
Despite the response he’s received at his school and over the Internet, Fuentes says he has no regrets about attending the white supremacist gatherings in Virginia.
‘I went to represent this new strain of conservatives, of people in the right wing who are opposed to mass immigration and multiculturalism,’ Fuentes told the broadcaster Thursday.
Feuentes (pictured middle) said that he received ‘at least 10 to 20’ threatening online messages following the events in Charlottesville
‘For a long time, this existed on the fringes. I thought it was a political victory – we exposed the removal of Confederate statues, and this disenfranchised group of white males.’
A Boston University spokesperson confirmed that the Political Science major had left the college earlier this week.
Fuentes, who is of Mexican decent according to Fox News, was adamant that many people at the ‘Unite The Right’ rally were not bigoted, instead identifying as ‘preservationist’ who are concerned with rising levels of immigration.
‘The picture the media keeps using is of one person with a Nazi flag, there were more one thousand there who didn’t have Nazi flags,’ Fuentes said.
‘The vast majority of people there were regular, decent people. I didn’t meet a single violent person. Our side is just preservationist.’
A group of white activists participate in a torch lit march through the University of Virginia campus ahead of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, VA
A group of white activists clash with others at the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, VA, US, August 12, 2017
The ‘Unite The Right’ rally was organized to protest the removal of a statue dedicated to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led a mutinous rebel army in the Civil War against the United States in order to preserve slavery.
Heather Heyer, 32, was killed while demonstrating in a counter-protest, murdered in a car-ramming attack perpetrated by a ‘Unite the Right’ participant and admitted white supremacist.
Following Heyer’s death, Fuentes began to be bombarded by online hate mail, with ‘messages on Twitter and Facebook telling me to go and kill myself and that if they see me they will beat the sh– out of me,’ adding ‘at least 10 to 20 of them were death threats.’
Before last week’s events, Fuentes had made his political beliefs public on social media
‘I made a short video presentation about my support for Trump before the election and that caused a major uproar.’
Fuentes said that he plans to take a tear off before attending classes at his new school at Auburn University in Alabama.
James Alex Fields (far Left), driver of the fatal car crash, stands behind white activists posing in Emancipation Park before the start of the ‘Unite the Right’ rally