By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 15:36 EST, 9 March 2014 | UPDATED: 04:56 EST, 10 March 2014 Two black teens were suspended from their Missisippi high school for the rest of the year after inadvertently making gang signs in a photo during science class. On the last Friday in January, Olive Branch High School students Dontadrian Bruce, 15, and Desmond Davis, 16, were photographed by their science teacher as they were working on a project about DNA. In the pictures, the two men smile while holding up their thumb, index and middle finger, with their palms facing outward.
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Dontadrian Bruce, 15, and Desmond Davis, 16, were suspended from school for the rest of the year last month
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The two were accused of using a gang symbol at school by their assistant principal
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Both posed in pictures using a symbol for the Vice Lords, a Chicago-based gang, but the two teens say they just meant the number three
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The suspension prompted outrage in the community, leading the school district to reverse their decision and let the boys back in school
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