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“If you see me fiddling with it, and it ends up on my pinky, we’ll have big problems.”

Maksim Zaitsev, 35, of Costa Mesa allegedly bit a deportation officer on the left pinky finger, breaking skin, drawing blood and breaking the finger.

As the officers escorted Zaitsev to a processing area, he allegedly struggled and bit I.R.’s left pinky finger, breaking skin, drawing blood and fracturing a bone.

Backstrom later described the injuries in a handwritten grievance he sent to prison officials in 2011: stitches and metal pins in his pinky and ring finger.

The hand gesture most closely associated with surf culture, shaka is formed by making a fist with the thumb and pinky fingers extended.