The US Coast Guard on Thursday issued a memo that reclassifies swastikas and nooses as “hate symbols,” in a rapid about-face after facing intense scrutiny for a previous policy change which downplayed ...

The shift will now classify the symbols as "potentially divisive.” Displaying them had previously been called “a potential ...

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The U.S. Coast Guard in new materials reviewed by USA TODAY called swastikas and nooses "potentially divisive symbols." ...

The new policy also prevents Coast Guard officers from immediately removing white supremacist symbols upon discovery.

The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such ...