Georgia student poses for photo in Ku Klux Klan hood, Confederate flag

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After an image of a student wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood with a Confederate flag was posted online, the Georgia school the student attends launched an investigation into the matter.

According to NY Daily News, Lorenzo Lewis, who posted the image online, was shocked that she was seeing something like this in 2015 at the school, East Coweta High School, from which she graduated only last spring.

“It left me speechless that a person could be so ignorant as to not only dress like that at school but pose for a picture as well,” she said. “Someone sent me the picture and I decided to post it.”

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While it has been confirmed that the image was taken in the school parking lot, officials are still looking into the circumstances of the image and have not released the name of the students involved due to privacy laws, though principal Steve Allen did say that “no specific threat was made in the incident.”

Allen said that the school would continue “to investigate the matter, and is implementing disciplinary consequences.”

“It does not reflect the 2900 students of this campus, it does not reflect the school or the school system,” Coweta County Schools spokesman Dean Jackson said of the image, reports WSB-TV.