Most violent. and we first saw bryon pop up on our radar when he was involved in a lot of skinhead activities, going to functions, showing up in different intelligence photos we were collecting. he was kind of the pit bull of the movement. an in your face-type guy. he was loved to drink a beer. very confrontational. had a reputation of being an enforcer type personality. i got the hate tattooed across my knuckles when i was about 15. i always liked the word hate. i thought it was real cool at the time. i was about 17 or 18 when i started getting swastikas and iron crosses and all that stuff on me. i really was embracing the whole nazi skinhead thing. at that time. the ss bolts, they speak for themselves. you can t be a nazi without a pair of ss bolts on you. back in the day, back in the late 80s and 90s you were required to earn your bolts. quote/unquote. you had to attack a minority, one on one and beat them down. so i earned mine years ago.
when he took off his shirt, he had some of the most intense nazi skinhead white power tattoos that i ve ever seen on an inmate. what s important to understand about tattoos like the ones that shawn had is that you don t get to just put those on your body. you have to do what the inmates call earn your ink. he had gotten the tattoos because in his past, shawn had done some pretty terrible things. first political tattoo was across my shoulder blades. i got that for smashing a guy on the yard. i beat him up pretty bad. you can get it swastika, you can get what is referred to as a blood swastika, which is about as high a level tattoo as you can get, which is what s on my back. what do you have to do to get that? shed the blood of another race. the murder that landed gaines in the maricopa county jail,
bryon widner grew up in albuquerque, new mexico. when i was about 3 years old, i moved in with my grandparents along with my little sister. my grandmother was a severe alcoholic. i was told that i was pretty well worthless. i wouldn t ever amount to anything. this or that. by the age of 13, 14, i just started running away all the time. i became a chronic runaway at that point. just started living on the streets. at the age of 18, bryon joined his first white power skinhead group. the soldiers of the new reich. when i was a teenager, i didn t have any family. i had my friends. that s all i had. and basically my crews were my family. statistically speaking, gang members don t join gangs because it s cool. they join gangs because usually they re street kids, they re destitute and they have nothing. as bryon s appetite for
In a lot of skinhead activities, going to functions, showing up in different intelligence photos we were collecting. he was kind of the pit bull of the movement. an in your face-type guy. he was loved to drink a beer. very confrontational. had a reputation of being an enforcer type personality. i got the hate tattooed across my knuckles when i was about 15. i always liked the word hate. i thought it was real cool at the time. i was about 17 or 18 when i started getting swastikas and iron crosses and all that stuff on me. i really was embracing the whole nazi skinhead thing. at that time. the ss bolts, they speak for themselves. you can t be a nazi without a pair of ss bolts on you. back in the day, back in the late 80s and 90s you were required to earn your bolts. quote/unquote. you had to attack a minority, one on one and beat them down. so i earned mine years ago. when he got the tattoos done, he didn t expect to have a family. and he came into our household
Shirt, he had some of the most intense nazi skinhead, white power tattoos that i ve ever seen on an inmate. and what s important to understand about tattoos like the ones that shawn had is that you don t get to just put those on your body. you have to do what the inmates call earn your ink. and he had gotten those tattoos because in his past, shawn had done some pretty terrible things. first political tattoo i earned was my white pride across my shoulder blades. i got that for smashing a guy and beat him up pretty bad and you can get a plain swastika or a black swastika or what is referred to as a blood swastika which is about as high a level of tattoo you can get, which is what s on my back. what do you do to get that? shed the blood of another race. the murder that landed gaines in the maricopa county jail, however, was not racially motivated. my female co-defendant had problems with her roommate.