Notorious neo-Nazi gang leader 'choked on blood' after near-fatal 'beating' from guards

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clan has opened up about the moment he came closest to death during his 45-year jail sentence.The Aryan Brotherhood is one of the oldest white supremacist gangs in the US, participating in every possible criminal enterprise and with members responsible for a number of prison murders.After he was convicted of killing two drug dealers, Michael Thompson spent 45 years in the California Department of Corrections, and found himself rising up the Aryan Brotherhood ranks. READ MORE: New 'bloodthirsty' prison gang 'responsible' for three recent massacres behind barsWhile inside prison, Michael was involved in a number of violent incidents - estimating that he was shot a total of 22 times - but speaking to the Shaun Attwood podcast, he revealed that he had felt most threatened by guards.“For all my talk about being non-violent and deploring violence, I’ve had my share of it… Probably the closest I’ve ever come to death was at the hands of guards,” he began.Michael explained how this event unfolded, when he was working as a clerk while in prison after he had renounced his involvement with the hate group.He claimed that he had witnessed the cover-up of the murder of prisoner Preston Tate by a gang of guards, and had subsequently been targeted for snitching on the group.“So one of the worst beatings that I have ever taken, was when I was scheduled to go out to court and these guards had just been indicted, so they came in and they chained me up,” he explained.“I thought I was going out to court but I wasn’t, so once they got me chained up, they took me into a room and beat me pretty severely to the point where I actually thought I was going to die.“I think the only thing that saved my life, kind of strange, I was choking on my own.