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Urban Outfitters sells Kent State shirt with apparent blood splatters

By WTOP Staff

WASHINGTON — Many are calling clothing retailer Urban Outfitters distasteful after it sold a T-shirt online with the Kent State seal and what appears to be splattered blood stains.

It appears to be a reference to the shootings at the college in 1970 in which four unarmed college students were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen during a Vietnam War protest.

This isn’t the first time Urban Outfitters has been scrutinized for insensitive clothing. At one point, the company marketed a T-shirt that simply featured the word “depression” in a repeating pattern, according to Business Insider.

The T-shirt has sold out online.

So far, the company has not commented.

h/t: People

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