“Three Wisconsin high school basketball players were handed one-game suspensions by their school district for flashing “gang signs” in a newspaper photo, even though the sign one of the players is holding up isn’t a gang sign at all.
The photo accompanies a Sheboygan Press story about Jordan, Jamal, and Juwuan Jackson, three brothers who recently moved to the new school district and began playing basketball for Sheboygan Falls High School. In the photo, Jordan, is making a gesture with both hands that local parents said looked like a gang sign. The school superintendent agreed and suspended them each for one game.
According to a Sheboygan Press follow-up report, the school consulted local police, who also thought Jackson’s gesture was a gang sign.”* John Iadarola (TYT University), Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies) and Gina Grad (The Gina Grad Show) break it down.
*Read more here from Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/01/17/3181701/high-school-basketball-players-suspended-flashing-gang-sign-actually-gang-sign/