Do they practice here in US like we do in Russia of holding you down and cutting off gang tattoos that you didn't properly acquire?
Sometimes. Depends on the ethnicity and gang. Mexicans and Aryans generally make you cut it off, other whites and most blacks generally make you cover it up with another tattoo after getting your ass stomped.
Here's the thing though, most people who get fucked up generally don't just get a bullshit gang tat like this. There are very specific rules for getting gang tats. Most gangs require you to put in work at a
prison to go from unpatched prospect to a patched member. For those that don't know, prison is not jail, if you get patched in while in jail, you will have to cover up or get it cut off while in prison. That is most people that cover up: people who are going to go to prison so they get in good with a gang while in jail and get patched in before they hit the yard, this is a
HUGE no-no. Now for what Phil has done, which is gotten a gang tattoo with literally no affiliation or jail or prison time, that is such a massive fuckup that his ass will be green lit by literally any gang worth their salt. He would be flat out murdered if sent to a yard, no questions asked. One sight check he would be alive, the next one the CO would find his ass dead, and it is doubtful that anyone, inmates or COs, would give a shit, and he would become a statistic while nobody even gets a charge over it.
Another massive fuckup is the fact that he claims Latin, that is a big no-no. I would hazard a guess and say 90% of the US Hispanic prison population are honest-to-God cartel-connected gang members, and 100% of them know Spanish. Dudes like him which claim shit that they aren't and don't even know the goddamn language die. They just die. The Aryans will jump in and save a fresh off the bus white boy from getting got because allowing whiteys to get murdered or fucked up on their watch is bad for business, but someone like this who is obviously white but claims Latin will be brutally murdered by the same gangs he tries to get close to, and the Aryans couldn't give any fewer fucks. You can't rely on the COs for protection, because in a 2000 bed prison you may only have 40 officers on shift on a good day.
I have personally seen people beaten to death with a plastic tray over shit half as petty as this. Luckily for him, however, he is legally a female, so it would be pretty easy time compared to what he would get, if he ever went to prison.
Note: I use Aryan because in almost every state and federal prison in the US you will see a subset of Aryans, each state generally has their own flavor, but in 90% of prisons, it's the Aryans who run the white boy car. However they aren't the only white prison gangs to exist.