For example, he and other cadets raised their fists to support their football team in December at the Army-Navy game, he said. West Point officials said Tuesday that a group of black cadets at the center of a national controversy over a photo in which they posed with raised fists did not violate academy rules on student conduct. Social media had erupted over the photo of the 16 women, which evoked black power salutes of the 1960s. The inquiry quoted an initial email from one of the women to a fellow cadet in which she asked him to take photos in order to "showcase the awesome black women in our class." Though the fists could be seen as political, the students were exonerated because that wasn't their intention, the investigation found.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 10, 2016 19:37 UTC