Coast Guard defends dropping hate label for swastikas, nooses, Confederate flags
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Acting Commandant of the Coast Guard Adm. Kevin Lunday said hate symbols including swastikas and nooses remain prohibited despite policy removing "hate incident" terminology.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
Despite the alteration, the Coast Guard claims that it remains committed to barring the symbols from the service and penalizing those who display them. Additionally, it said that it still considers the symbols "extremist imagery."
"The claims that the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses or other extremist imagery as prohibited symbols are categorically false," Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting commandant of the Coast Guard, said in a Thursday statement to Fox News Digital. "These symbols have been and remain prohibited in the Coast Guard per policy."
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