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douglas9

(5,522 posts)
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 06:48 AM Jun 2025

Federal agent's tattoo stokes fear

A federal immigration enforcer’s tattoo that matches the description of a symbol used by white supremacists has caused some Vineyarders to sound alarm bells.

Islanders reviewing a video posted on social media by Charlie Giordano — who confronted federal agents while they detained immigrants on Martha’s Vineyard — have pointed to a tattoo of three interconnecting triangles on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s right tricep: a valknot.

The Anti-Defamation League characterizes the valknot as an “old Norse symbol that often represented the afterlife in carvings and designs.” While not a racist illustration on its own, the League stated that the symbol had been appropriated as a racist symbol by “some white supremacists, particularly racist Odinists.”

https://www.mvtimes.com/2025/05/30/federal-agents-tattoo-stokes-fear/

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Federal agent's tattoo stokes fear (Original Post) douglas9 Jun 2025 OP
And who is surprised by this type of tattoo on an ICE agent. Biophilic Jun 2025 #1
I guarantee he is not the only one AverageOldGuy Jun 2025 #2
Hegseth sports prominent Crusader Crosses. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2025 #6
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. ms liberty Jun 2025 #3
re: tattoos TnDem Jun 2025 #4
My girlfriend got a gong tattoo by mistake... rubbersole Jun 2025 #8
You win this one TnDem Jun 2025 #10
*SNORT* Skittles Jun 2025 #11
White supremacist groups are gangs: violent & racist & against USA values. Deport violent gang members? Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2025 #5
Well ICE is quick to make assumptions PatSeg Jun 2025 #7
Who else would eReich Prints hire for his mercenary army? Clouds Passing Jun 2025 #9

Biophilic

(6,404 posts)
1. And who is surprised by this type of tattoo on an ICE agent.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 06:53 AM
Jun 2025

Come on people, who else is perfect for today’s ICE?

AverageOldGuy

(3,364 posts)
2. I guarantee he is not the only one
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 07:22 AM
Jun 2025

In fact, I suspect the MAJORITY of ICE thugs have similar tats and are closeted Nazis.

Cop: "Sir, do you know why I stopped you?"
Motorist: "Because you made C's and D's in high school?"

 

TnDem

(1,390 posts)
4. re: tattoos
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 08:02 AM
Jun 2025

People have so many damn tattoos now, it would literally take a rosetta stone to decipher what each one means on every person.

I remember one time years back, an acquaintance got a tattoo around his bicep with some Japanese lettering that he saw somewhere and he thought looked "cool"....Later on, he was at Disney World in Orlando and a Japanese person saw it and loosely translated it to him and his girlfriend and it meant "asshole".

rubbersole

(10,992 posts)
8. My girlfriend got a gong tattoo by mistake...
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:14 AM
Jun 2025

...she told the guy she wanted a Chinese cymbal.


I'll let myself out...

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
5. White supremacist groups are gangs: violent & racist & against USA values. Deport violent gang members?
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 08:52 AM
Jun 2025

PatSeg

(52,218 posts)
7. Well ICE is quick to make assumptions
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 08:55 AM
Jun 2025

about other people's tattoos, I guess it is only fair that the same be done to them.

That said, I have to wonder what kind of people would actually do the things required of ICE agents under Trump. They don't sound like people I'd like being around.

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