Florida officials hastily built the detention center last year, prompting a string of lawsuits
Guards inside Florida’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention facility are reportedly wearing patches featuring the Grim Reaper and the words “You can’t hide.”
A former guard at the facility, which sits on an old airstrip in a remote patch of the Everglades, reportedly made the patches and distributed them to other staff members.
“What I saw was ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ a skeleton dressed in black holding a hatchet and a crocodile underneath,” former detainee Lewis Ortigoza told the Miami Herald of the patch. “It looked like something demonic.”
“I always felt haunted by it, but I never said anything because I was so afraid,” he added.
Right but imagine that 10 year old has the ability and permission to beat you to feel powerful. That he’s wearing the patch specifically to scare you. That is scary. Psychopaths are scary, and the fact that they don’t feel the need to be professional enough to not wear these patches that mean I am here because I want to kill you is scary, whether the patch design is moronic or not.