Prokopas said she was standing outside the facility on March 3 holding a cardboard sign that read “SHAME” when Martinez stopped his truck near the entrance gate while waiting for a break in traffic to pull onto U.S. 41. The two began speaking through the open window of his vehicle.
During the exchange, Martinez told her he had just been fired after fighting with another officer. He had fresh gashes on his face.
Prokopas said Martinez was wearing the patch on his uniform. She said he then removed it from his shoulder and handed it to her.
Visibly upset, Martinez told Prokopas that he previously worked for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in Texas. He said he had just been discharged from Critical Response Strategies, the private contractor that provides security at the detention center, after a physical altercation with another guard inside the facility.
Martinez told Prokopas he planned to report the incident to the Miccosukee Police Department because the detention center sits on tribal land.
Not sure if you wrote that or if you just linked the article, but in case the article writer sees this: that’s not a hatchet. That is what’s called a scythe (don’t ask me to pronounce it); its purpose is harvesting wheat. You swing it horizontally and it’s meant to separate the usable wheat from the stem. The blade is carried by momentum through the wheat. The Grim Reaper carries one because he is meant to be harvesting the souls of the dead, as the legend goes.
By contrast, a hatchet is a small ax.
Scythe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythe
Hatchet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchet
Not the same.
Also, I have never seen nor heard of a Grim Reaper carrying a hatchet. Always a scythe. Interestingly, in the Castlevania games, the Grim Reaper carries a scythe, but he throws sickles, which are like little handheld scythes. They don’t resemble hatchets, though, and what is shown in the patch is definitely a scythe.
Not a farmer… just a Castlevania fan. ;)
