• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    Demonstrators investigating the abandoned ICE vehicles apparently retrieved these “challenge coins” that ICE mercenaries receive when they kidnap people. This “coin” is decorated with a skull wearing a crown. ICE mercenaries serve king death.

    …tha fuck!!!

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      24 days ago

      Kinda need a citation for that claim, it really sounds… weird. It just looks like the standard douchy challenge coins anyone can get online, the airsoft place near me sells dozens with similarly cringe designs but they’re pricey enough not to be handed out casually.

      edit: This substack has more on the significance of the imagery, and it aligns with what I have seen in LEO culture - it does make a lot more sense than them being given out for “kidnapping someone” as this article implies.

      Summary is that these were likely given out for a joint operation with the IRS and ATF (you can see the agency names engraved on the coin) and that has it’s own chilling implications but that are unrelated to direct kidnapping rewards.