School officials in an Indianapolis suburb are investigating high schoolers who appear to be performing a Nazi salute in a photograph of a recreational soccer team.
Administrators from Zionsville Community High School called the image of 14 boys, 10 of whom have their right arm raised in a manner similar to the salute used by Nazis to honor Adolf Hitler, “sickening” and “beyond offensive to students, staff, parents, extended family members and to an inestimable number of people in the wider world,” according to an email to parents obtained by the Indianapolis Star.
“Our school community’s efforts to foster cultural understanding will proceed, though they are set back mightily by this repugnant image,” Zionsville Schools Superintendent Scott Robison said in the message.