A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, despite the man having no connection to the group.

The tattoo is of a clock, and other tattoos listed as evidence of gang membership include mistranslated text and Chicago Bulls fandom tattoos.

  • The_Caretaker@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Various depictions of clocks are common in prison tattoos, for obvious reasons, but that doesn’t mean all clock tattoos are prison tattoos. I have seen gang tattoos that were depictions of a woman with a pistol or a woman swinging on an inverted carpenter’s hammer.

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      9 days ago

      I’m a tattoo artist and SOOOOOOOOO many parents get a clock for every damn kid and set the hands to the time or even date the kid was born.