Meeink pointed out to the audience that there are in fact many different types of skinheads. Meeink s association with the Ku Klux Klan was short-lived due to a fight that broke out at a club sponsoring a party for an Animal Rights group. Meeink s skinheads were kicked out of the Klan, because the Klan claimed they were giving them a bad name. Meeink s life was on a downward slope, having now dropped out of school and been kicked out of both his parents homes. He was now running the Philadelphia chapter of skinheads.
Tattoos are a sort of status symbol for skinheads.
Meeink explained the significance of the spider tattoo, which you get on your elbow if you have killed someone. It looks especially good if someone in your crew kills someone. At fifteen years old Meeink was living in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in a rented house. Six out of the fifteen people living in his house were wanted for murder. During his five years as a skinhead, Meeink estimated he had committed close to three hundred acts of violence.