Coast Guard denies report it won't classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols [View all]
Source: The Hill
11/20/25 3:23 PM ET
The Coast Guard said Thursday a Washington Post report that claimed it will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols is “categorically false.”
“The claims that the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses or other extremist imagery as prohibited symbols are categorically false. These symbols have been and remain prohibited in the Coast Guard per policy,” Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting Coast Guard commandant, said in a statement.
The Post reported the branch, part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), will classify swastikas, widely recognized as a symbol of the German Nazi Party and linked to the killing of millions of Jews, as “potentially divisive,” along with the Confederate flag and nooses, citing documents it obtained.
The new policy is set to go into effect Dec. 15, and if the “potentially divisive” symbol is reported, supervisors will have to investigate and could direct it to be removed after advising with the legal office, the Post reported. The DHS strongly pushed back on the report, calling it an “absolute ludicrous lie and unequivocally false.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5615799-coast-guard-denies-report-it-wont-classify-swastikas-nooses-as-hate-symbols/
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