‘It’s mind-blowing… a total misrepresentation,’ one British tattoo artist whose work was cited as a symbol of the crime syndicate Tren de Aragua tells Io Dodds

  • lemmyng
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    2625 days ago

    Everything else aside, it would be hilarious if Michael Jordan sued ICE for misrepresenting his trademark as “jump man”.

  • @[email protected]
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    1325 days ago

    They didn’t show my favorite example, the autism awareness ribbon tattoo with the brothers name under it.

  • jrs100000
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    825 days ago

    Oh great, I need to call up a bunch of old Army buddies with tattoos and let them know they are in a gang, cause thats the exact style of star the military uses in their art.

  • @[email protected]
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    1425 days ago

    Oh NO! CLOCKS are Gang Tattoos? I’m now TERRIFIED because EVERY person I see with a Tattoo has one of those FREAKING Clocks! I NEED to call ICE! And I’m NOT a SNOWFLAKE And I DO my OWN RESEARCH!

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    425 days ago

    Other examples used by DHS can be found in online posts dating back up to 11 years, suggesting that they were acquired simply by searching the internet for tattoos of various topics, including crowns, trains, stars, clocks, and the words “Hijos de Dios” (meaning “sons of God”), or “HJ” for short.

    The government dudes are probably already familiar with looking up “HJ”

  • @[email protected]
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    525 days ago

    It’s just the Aryans clearing America of other gangs. This is prison beef spilled over into real life.

  • hopesdead
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    625 days ago

    Has the person who identified this artwork ever seen a crowd in public? They look like pretty much anything you’d random see in a random crowd.