Coins depicting Border Patrol agent grabbing Haitian migrant trigger investigation

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

Sawyer Hackett
@SawyerHackett
People are selling challenge coins online depicting border patrol agents rounding up Haitian migrants with the inscription “whipping ass since 1924.”

Agents have been known to collect these. CBP is now investigating. https://latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-06-16/coins-border-patrol-haitian-immigrants…
Image
3:35 PM · Jun 16, 2022

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-06-16/coins-border-patrol-haitian-immigrants

No paywall
https://archive.ph/cl9YX

The photograph encapsulates the intensity of the clashes between Border Patrol agents and Haitian immigrants desperate to get into the United States.

An agent on horseback leans over, grabbing a man by the shirt as a rein dangles.

Now an image mirroring the Sept. 19 photo by Paul Ratje of AFP has appeared on a “challenge coin” typically collected by agents, law enforcement officials and aficionados.

“Whipping ass since 1924” is written along the coin’s border.

The Times obtained photos of the coin. Its other side says “Haitian Invasion” with crossed swords and the words “U.S. Border Patrol,” “Horse Patrol Unit” and “deflecting allegations for years.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which includes the Border Patrol, is investigating whether the coin and a similar one, which have been advertised online, were sold by anyone from the agency. It is unclear who produced the coins or how widely they have been distributed.

*snip*