U.S. Coast Guard Member Appears to Flash "White Power" Signal on TV.

According to Circa (September 15, 2018) an MSNBC interview with the U.S. Coast Guard appears to show a background member flashing a white power hand sign.

In the video, the support staff member in the bottom left is seen using a hand gesture associated with white supremacy.

MSNBC was interviewing Captain John Reed, the head of the response efforts for Hurricane Florence in Charleston, South Carolina. Following the interview, the U.S. Coast Guard released a response on Twitter that the man shown making the gesture has been removed from the Florence response efforts.
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I discussed this hand sign and its meaning as a "white power" symbol in July 2018. Simply put, this hand gesture is NOT a white power sysbol, rather its association with white power was stared as a hoax on 4Chan. The 4Chan hoax was to show that the masses can be tricked into believing and repeating almost anything. - Well the hoax seems to be gaining ground.

According the ADL: "The “OK” hand gesture originated as one of these hoaxes in February 2017 when an anonymous 4channer announced “Operation O-KKK,” telling other members that “we must flood Twitter and other social media websites…claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy.” The user even provided a helpful graphic showing how the letters WP (for “white power”) could be traced within an “OK” gesture. The originator and others also suggested useful hashtags to help spread the hoax, such as #PowerHandPrivilege and #NotOkay. “Leftists have dug so deep down into their lunacy,” wrote the poster, “We must force [them] to dig more, until the rest of society ain’t going anywhere near that s***."