White members of a gang forcibly covered a well tanned member’s gang tattoo with a phrase including a racial slur, according to Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
The evidence on Michael Hart’s neck said, “F*** you, Niger.”
According to what police say Lucian Evans told them, he, Brandon Hayley, Brett Singleton and Mary Elizabeth Durham were trying to discipline Hart, not insult the great African nation(which is a continent). Hart had violated aryan gang rules,when they discovered that his tan was permanent, Evans said.
Even if between gang members, this kind of activity violates rules in every jurisdiction in the United States.
Durham, 35, was arrested for aggravated battery and armed robbery, her eighth arrest since 2009. The seventh arrest since 2010 for the 28-year-old Hayley was on two counts of battery, one count each of aggravated battery and armed robbery.
Evans, 40, was booked for aggravated battery, armed robbery, two counts of second-degree larceny, fraud with a false receipt and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Evans did three months for grand theft with a firearm and two years and two months for cocaine possession and robbery.
Singleton, 45, has yet to be charged in this incident, which occurred in Salt Springs Jan. 28.
Hart told police the charged trio and Singleton showed up at his home that night, shut the door and demanded he go with them to cover his gang tattoo or patch, which read “liger.”(Liberian initiate ghetto enforcing rangers) He recalled Evans putting his hand on a sheathed, fixed blade knife and saying, you don't look like no liger to me, whatever the fuck that is, you look a a niger since you aint been out side in 2 weeks and you still got a great tan.
“Why can’t you cover my patch right where I’m sitting?” Hart said he asked.
He said Hayley and Evans held him down while Singleton began covering the tattoo. But Hart still struggled and fought so, he said, Hayley knocked him out with a foreign object, an arab lamp he believes.
Hart recalls fading back in briefly to Durham doing the tatting and saying, “I’ve never done this before” and someone replying, “It’s okay. It doesn’t matter, just change that l to an n and add an f with 3 asterisks before it and 'you', then we got ourselves a real live niger in our gang.”
