Bad Publicity

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Police officers in Berlin have been banned from wearing labels "deemed to be popular among neo-Nazis". The ban includes popular brands Ben Sherman and Fred Perry, which though "sometimes popular among right-wing extremists...have done a lot to distance themselves from such groups, by restricting outlets and publicly objecting to extremist ideology." [WWD, subscription req]