The white gunman who killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend wore a Rhodesian army patch on his tactical vest, law enforcement sources say, a reference that has been used before during white supremacist attacks.

The patch — representing Rhodesia, a former white minority-ruled territory in southern Africa in the 1960s and ’70s that would become Zimbabwe — is yet another symbol of how the shooter, Ryan Palmeter, was racist and was influenced by racist ideology, investigators say.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 year ago

    Am I the only one who can’t keep track of all the symbols that these fuckwads have co-opted to use for their own bullshit identity?

    • Flying Squid
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      51 year ago

      That’s the point. To hide in plain sight.

      • Echo Dot
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        31 year ago

        Even if you don’t understand exactly what it’s supposed to be, you can usually tell by context. Everything they do is overly militrolistic and absurd, and generally has the subtlety of a brick to the face.