US military officials said they are investigating an incident where Army and Navy students used hand signs that can signal white power during a television broadcast.
The symbol was shown by two West Point cadets and a Naval Academy midshipman during festivities televised live by ESPN Saturday before a football game in Philadelphia between the Army and Navy. The gesture resembles the "okay" sign, with the thumb and forefinger touching to form a circle and the remaining three fingers splayed, pointing upwards. It has only recently become a white supremecist symbol, and was adopted partly because of its ambiguity, according to the Anti-Defamation League.