Kyle Chapman (pictured), known on the internet as ‘Based Stickman,’ was sent to jail on Thursday
An ‘alt-right’ Internet figure known on social media for violently clashing with protesters at a pro-Trump rally in Berkeley earlier this year was taken to jail from an Oakland courtroom after a judge set his bail at $135,000.
Kyle Chapman, who goes by the online pseudonym ‘Based Stickman,’ was charged with ‘possession of an illegal weapon’ after authorities reported that he was seen beating people with a stick and dousing others with pepper spray on March 4.
During the arraignment, Alameda County Judge Mark McCannon told Chapman that the allegations caused him ‘concern,’ and ordered him to stay away from the college campus.
‘You are to have no weapons of any kind — sticks, knives, pepper spray,’ the East Bay Express reported the judge also telling Chapman.
The Express noted that nearly a dozen officers were present at the California courtroom in order to maintain order in case protesters or supporters of Chapman wanted to cause a disruption.
Chapman, 41, earned the ‘Based Stickman’ moniker after footage uploaded to YouTube went viral showing him club protesters at Berkeley with a wooden weapon.
Before the hearing commenced, requests for comment were rebuffed by Chapman as he made his way to the courtroom, accusing reporters of writing ‘hi pieces’ against him.
Chapman went on to blame ‘commies’ and ‘international domestic terrorists’ for recent violent confrontations at right-wing demonstrations across the country.
Chapman was arrested and charged after he reportedly beat anti-Trump protesters with a stick and doused them with pepper sray
Chapman earned the pseudonym after a video allegedly showing him beating protesters went viral
This isn’t Chapman’s first brush with the law.
Before becoming the so-called ‘poster boy for the alt-right,’ Chapman was arrested on a litany of of different offenses, including second-degree robbery, grand theft, and illegal possession of a firearm.
Before Friday’s court case, the right-wing twice-convicted felon wrote on social media that he would not stop attending rallies in the bay-area despite his current circumstances.
‘If found guilty, with prior enhancements I’m looking a good chunk of time,’ Chapman wrote Facebook.
‘Regardless, I will be attending the SF and Berekley (sic) rallies. Never surrender.’
Chapman wrote on Facebook tat despite the trial, he would continue to attend right-wing rallies