Next on the White Power Chopping Block: Kyle “Based Stickman” Chapman

When DOESN’T this guy get arrested? And although it presumably won’t happen this time since he is being held without bail (UPDATE: Somehow he posted bail July 9 and is out now; story corrected to reflect this), how the hell does he keep getting out in the first place?

Kyle Chapman, who has made a name for himself participating in rallies last year in Berkeley, California can add yet another assault arrest to his ever-growing rap sheet, this one stemming from a Texas bar fight a year ago.

According to the East Bay Express, Chapman was arrested in Oakland on July 3 and is being held in Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail on charges that on July 1, 2017 he got into an altercation with a bar patron at the Dirty Dog Bar, in Austin, Texas, punching him and hitting him across the face with a wooden bar stool. Witnesses told police Chapman was shoving people in a mosh pit in an attempt to instigate a fight, and video from that evening supports those accounts.

Chapman has been nicknamed “Based Stickman” after videos in March 2017 showed him attacking antifascists with a cane during protests there, which resulted in one of his many arrests in the past few years, and has traveled the country promoting himself and his group the Fraternal Order of the Alt-Knights, an organization within the neo-Fascist group the Proud Boys. He was in Austin to speak at a pro-Trump rally earlier in the day where among other things marchers chanted “Death to Soros,” in reference to the billionaire businessman conservatives have devised various conspiracy theories citing him as a puppet master creating opposition to them.

The Smoking Gun website notes that Chapman, 42, is “a thrice-convicted felon who has served three separate prison terms, jumped bail, twice violated parole, used cocaine, LSD, and meth, and was described by his own lawyer as having ‘severe psychological problems,'” Chapman was charged in August on suspicion of felony possession of carrying a leaded cane or billy club during a Berkeley rally in March, 2017, and was sent back to jail in December for violating the conditions of his bail after his arrest earlier that month on charges of operating a motor vehicle off of designated roads at a federal park in San Francisco revealed him to be in possession of a Kubotan, a self-defense keychain weapon, a weapon he boasted about having in a Facebook video months earlier, saying, “”This is what I carry on my keychain, guys. Antifa, just so you know. Very fuckin’ deadly.” A judge increased his bail and he was eventually released, but in March, a Travis County, TX judge issued a warrant for Chapman’s arrest in following an investigation of the bar fight, making Chapman a fugitive from justice.

Chapman posted bail on July 9.