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Gregory Bovino
Gregory Bovino, a US Border Patrol leader, caught on video in Minneapolis in “Nazi cosplay” mode.
Gregory Bovino is a controversial chief of the United States Border Patrol. He clearly has a stance aggressive, likes to scare, to create fear. It is especially brutal in its repression against immigrants.
This Saturday, he once again attracted attention, and it was not for a peaceful reason: he was caught on video in Minneapolis wearing, to say the least, questionable clothing.
Call him “cosplay Nazi”. Cosplay is a Carnival at any time of year: dressing and putting on makeup like a character, usually from a work of fiction.
Gregory Bovino was the leader of the agents trying to stop protests against police brutality. He shouted, pointed, gestured, put on a “bad face”. Normal.
But the clothes he wore on Saturday clearly resemble uniforms worn by Schutzstaffel commanders. (SS), Hitler’s paramilitary organization during the Nazi Germany.
The warning spread across social media: Bovino looks like high-ranking SS officers. The uniform in general, the long green coat, the black scarf, the emblems on the sleeve, the shoes, even the haircut.
Little is known
Gregory Bovino is a figure of immigration repression promoted by Donald Trump, US president.
But very little is known about this person in charge, who joined the Border Patrol seven years ago and has led operations in Los Angeles and Chicago.
On social media, it presents itself as a kind of hero, frequently sharing montages of raids that portray border patrol agents as the “good guys”. And there is a heightened drama in these publications.
It is known that it is grandson of immigrants.
And it is known that refuses to follow court orders: This Saturday, he already warned that he would continue to use tear gas – even after a federal judge in Minnesota prohibited federal agents from using this method against peaceful protesters.
