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Washington, D.C., Officer Suspended over White Supremacist T-Shirt

HeadlineAug 01, 2017

And in Washington, D.C., a police officer has been suspended after he wore a white supremacist T-shirt while on duty. The shirt shows a Grim Reaper holding a rifle with the Washington, D.C., flag attached to it. Above the flag are the words “powershift,” which refers to the officers assigned to areas with high amounts of crime. On the “O” in “powershift” is the image of a type of cross that the Anti-Defamation League says is the same symbol used on a neo-Nazi website.

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