A suspect with a face full of white supremacist tattoos has been arrested after police approached him for jaywalking, and he allegedly fought with the officers.
Anthony Leon Rushing, 41, was charged on Tuesday with resisting the police and violating parole in Rancho Cordova, California, where cops say he tangled with two officers who approached him.
The incident began when police with the Sacramento suburb’s crime suppression unit saw Rushing ‘commit an infraction relating to improper use of the crosswalk’, police said in a statement.
Anthony Leon Rushing, 41, was charged on Tuesday with resisting the police and violating parole in Rancho Cordova, California, where cops say he tangled with two officers
‘Upon being contacted by the officers, Rushing fled on foot through the Zinfandel light rail station,’ the statement said.
‘Officers caught up with him in a nearby strip mall, where he engaged the officers in a violent confrontation.’
During a ‘violent struggle’ in the parking lot, Rushing and the two officers fell to the pavement, and one cop sustained a minor injury when Rushing punched him in the face, police said.
The officers subdued the suspect with the use of a Taser and took him into custody.
Police say they recovered a knife at the scene, which they believe Rushing dropped while fleeing.
As seen in his mugshot, Rushing’s face is a jumbled canvas of tattoos.
In a cursive script, his forehead reads ‘Natural Born Killer,’ directly above the SS Lightening Bolt logo of the Nazi’s Shutzstaffel paramilitary force.
On either of Rushing’s eyebrows appear to be runes of unclear meaning, utilizing the early European alphabets popular with white identity movements.
‘Jessica’ appears written in a flowing script below Rushing’s right eye.
His right cheek is inscribed with the number ’14’, a reference to the 14 words slogan: ‘We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.’
Police said that Rushing fled across this light rail station and into the strip mall beyond after officers approached him regarding a crosswalk violation
His left cheek bears the number ’88’, either a reference to ‘H’ as the eighth letter of the alphabet, for ‘Heil Hitler’, or sometimes for the ’88 Precepts’ that expand upon the ’14 Words’ slogan.
Above Rushing’s lips are inked the words ‘Blood’ and ‘Honor’, and his chin is tattooed with the Othala rune, a symbol adopted by the National Socialist Movement in America to replace the swastika.
A scroll on the suspect’s neck reads ‘Shera’.
Rushing is currently being held without bail on a flash incarceration in connection with the alleged parole violation.
It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney, nor from what prior charges the parole violation stemmed.