May 11, 2016 at 6:55 am 118
Sixteen black West Point cadets who posed with raised fists for a pre-graduation picture that sparked debates on race and proper behavior in uniform won’t be punished for the gesture, the U.S. Military Academy said Tuesday. The decision, less than two weeks before the 16 female seniors are poised to graduate, found they didn’t violate any U.S. Department of Defense rules limiting political activity.
An internal inquiry “found that the cadets did not pre-plan or set out to make a political statement,” West Point’s superintendent, Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen Jr., said in a letter to the student body. But, he said, they showed “a lapse of awareness in how symbols and gestures can be misinterpreted and cause division” and they will get some instruction on that.
The fists-up image, which circulated online, led some observers to question whether the women were expressing support for the Black Lives Matter movement, which grew out of protests over police killings of unarmed black men.......To Read More.....
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