New Yorker fact-checker under fire after mistaking ICE worker’s tattoo for Nazi symbol

https://nypost.com/ ^ | 7/19/18 | Lia Eustachewich

[BBell]

A Harvard-educated fact-checker for the New Yorker is being excoriated by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency for “baselessly slandering” a Marine veteran — by falsely accusing him of having a Nazi tattoo, according to reports.

Officials with ICE are now demanding that the New Yorker and Talia Lavin apologize over her erroneous tweet about Justin Gaertner.

In the gaffe, Lavin allegedly implied over the weekend that Gaertner, a combat-wounded veteran and ICE forensics analyst, had the Nazis’ Iron Cross inked on his elbow.

But she deleted her post after “military veterans responded that the tattoo looked more like a Maltese cross, a symbol associated with firefighters,” ICE said in a statement.

The tattoo, according to Gaertner, is actually a “Titan 2” symbol for his platoon when he served in Afghanistan.

“The writing on his right arm is the Spartan Creed which is about protecting family and children,” ICE said. “Anyone attempting to advance their personal political opinions by baselessly slandering an American hero should be issuing public apologies to Mr. Gaertner and retractions. This includes Levin [sic] and the New Yorker.

Gaertner lost both of his legs and suffered other permanent injuries when an IED exploded during his deployment to Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He served as a fire team leader and lead sweeper for IEDs.

Now Gaertner is a para-Olympic athlete who has “volunteered his time to motivate other wounded warriors and Boston bombing victims,” according to ICE. With the immigration agency, he helps solve criminal cases related to sexually abused children.

[BBell]

She would have pooped herself over this

[shanover]

People see what they want to see. It is quite scary. This a-hole started a “Tweet Storm” that quite a few fellow a-holes on the left jumped upon. This moron from Harvard would probably think Germany is still Nazi by looking at the current cross as it represents their military.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

LoL!

[Fiji Hill]

The “Iron Cross” or Maltese Cross isn’t a Nazi symbol. It was used by the Holy Roman Empire, long before the Nazis, and continues to be used on the Federal Republic of Germany’s combat aircraft.

[minnesota_bound]

Actor Ron Perlman Calls Disabled Veteran Turned ICE Agent’s Platoon Symbol a Nazi Tattoo
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/06/18/actor-ron-perlman-wrongly-accuses-veteran-ice-member-having-nazi-tattoo/

[RedMonqey]

One of the definitions of googol is:

1 followed by one hundred zeroes

I remember this not because I was a math whiz but because it was in a comic book about a American flyer ace fighting Japanese Imperil fighters... alone and separated from his unit

Some Jap planes were called "Zeroes"

[RedMonqey]

“Talia Lavin”

My guess she is a liberal Jewish NYer who sees every white with a tattoo as a Nazi.

Not much different from every white male whom she doesn’t know personally.

[RedMonqey]

“Talia Lavin”

My guess she is a liberal Jewish NYer who sees every white with a tattoo as a Nazi.

Not much different from every white male whom she doesn’t know personally.

[HotHunt]

Come on people.

This person is so homely and ugly, the only thing she's got going for her to attract attention, is to say and write outrageous things like this about a Marine hero's tattoo.

No wonder the NYSlimes is fake news.

If this is the best their fact-checker could do, the entire paper is probably made-up stories.

Did I say "probably"? I meant just "is".