Alana Garas, a spokesperson for the Naval Academy, said in a statement to The Washington Post. It would be inappropriate to speculate any further while we are conducting this investigation.”ADADLt. Col. Chris Ophardt told The Post that the “U.S. “The overwhelming usage of the ‘okay’ hand gesture today is still its traditional purpose as a gesture signifying assent or approval,” the ADL post reads. “As a result, someone who uses the symbol cannot be assumed to be using the symbol in either a trolling or, especially, white supremacist context unless other contextual evidence exists to support the contention. According to the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center, the slogan and its abbreviation are popular among members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist prison gang.

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2019 16:05 UTC