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a kitchen knife. Granted, if you looked at it logically, it was self-defense. But who looks at killing your own mother logically.
    His mother had worked at a hospital and her “friend” was employed as an aide at an assisted living facility. When they abused him, they were usually wearing their green work scrubs. These green outfits were a trigger that set off a red-hot rage Beker had trouble controlling. They were both wearing those hospital garments the morning he had finally snapped, and it was that same mindless anger that put him in the situation he was dealing with now. After killing his mom and her friend, he fled the home and began to walk the streets in a post violence daze. That is when he saw another nurse leave the clinic where she worked. And, she was wearing those green scrubs. The rose-colored curtain of rage fell and he didn’t remember much after that.
    The next thing he knew, he was on the ground in handcuffs, arrested by Orlando’s finest. He was transported to the 33rd Street County lock-up; and it was while he was in a holding cell for the rage-induced assault that the lights went out. It was also in that holding cell where he met Taurus, a leader in the white supremacist movement. After seeing Beker’s scars, the ones made by his mom’s friend with her cigarette, Taurus adopted him into the white clan. It seems that Taurus had a similar experience growing up in foster care. Their scars were their bond.
    The next six days were a mixture of fear and hope. Those first few days after the electricity went off were a jumble of knife fights, rioting and death. Old scores between the Whites, Blacks and Latinos ruptured what little stability the prison maintained. Then, on the third day, the feds took over the 33rd Street County Jail. Taurus and the other gang leaders met with some DHS representatives. A working relationship had quickly developed and a truce between the gangs took hold.
    Beker wasn’t privy to the deal, but conversations between Taurus and his soldiers indicated that DHS was going to commute their sentences in exchange for helping DHS out. Two days later, the full gravity of the relationship between the gangs and DHS became evident. The gangs were going to be DHS enforcers. They were going to be a catalyst to encourage the uncooperative residents to align themselves within the new order of things.
    But Taurus, although a gangbanger, was smart enough to distrust their “alliance” with their new DHS partners. His white supremacist philosophy and time in prison allowed him to educate himself on history, especially the history of a man named Adolph Hitler. Taurus spoke with his commanders and described the history of the rise of the Nazi party. He spoke of the Sturmabteilung, which meant “Storm Detachment” in German. They were the Nazi party’s first henchmen. During the early days of Hitler’s rise, they disrupted opposing political party rallies, and intimidated the general population, especially immigrants and Jews. They were called the “Brownshirts” because of their brown paramilitary uniforms. “That is who they want us to be!” Taurus had told his men.
    The subordinates slapped each other’s backs and congratulated themselves for their good fortune. That is, until Taurus told them what had happened to the “Brownshirts.” After almost a decade of loyalty to Hitler, he ordered their arrest and the murder of nearly a hundred of their leaders and members. Called the Night of the Long Knives, the purge of his loyal followers was due to Hitler’s paranoia about the Brownshirts’ growing power. He replaced them with the even more fearsome Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo (the Nazi secret police). Taurus confided in his men that he was worried that when the DHS had finished using them, the gangs would be eliminated. DHS was not to be trusted.
    So Beker and “Weed,” another young recruit, were sent out with a busload of gang members that were tasked with helping the DHS