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🚨🚨🚨: West Point releases their findings into the hand gestures made at the Army/Navy games. The school says the cadets were playing the circle game and NOT making white power symbols.
Now that the report concludes what non-hysterical people knew all along, here's a thread of people/media places smearing the cadets by jumping to conclusions:
Some of these tweets got thousands of RTs and likes off of accusing our future military leaders of being white supremacists. It's shameful: (2/X)
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Last one for now but this one is insane. New York Magazine included the Army/Navy game incident with ACTUAL hate crimes that occurred this year, including the El Paso and Gilroy shootings. Completely irresponsible.
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
I see some are doubting the investigation (shocker) but the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service were involved:
townhall.com/tipsheet/julio…
Here's how Joy Reid covered the incident the next day: "And now we have an investigation of US military cadets, Navy cadets, giving what appears to be the symbol of white power..."

Glenn Kirschner: "It means that they should be dealt with swiftly and harshly..."
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