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Josephthagard

Joseph Thagard is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Anchor". He is a racist who murders several immigrant children, claiming that "anchor babies" are worsening illegal immigration and ruining the country.

He is portrayed by Thomas Sadoski.

History[]

Thagard is a veteran who served in the US Coast Guard, but was dishonorably discharged. He couldn't find a job and had to settle for working at a company that shredded paperwork. However, after following Gordon Garrison, a far-right TV personality whose main shtick is demonizing immigrants, Thagard soon started killing immigrant children.

Then when two protests take place outside the police station. After that, Thagard then goes to civil rights attorney Randall Carver's officer and accuses him of destroying America for defending illegal immigrants, but when SVU detective Fin Tutuola appears to contain Thagard's verbal assaults, Fin then arrests him. After that, Carver refuses to press charges and releases Thagard, he then discovers Thagard's hate messages, discovering that Thagard knenw of the victims. Then Fin sees in a family that where Thagard kills the father and beats the mother, and takes the child. However, Fin manages to save the child and Thagard is arrested.

Carver resolves to defend him at the trial claiming that he was brainwashed by Garrison. Arguments among the jury about illegal immigration result in a mistrial. Upon being set free, Thagard thanks Carver and says that he will continues to kill immigrant children. Horrified and wracked with guilt for keeping Thagard out of prison, Carver lures him into his office and shoots him dead.

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