Walmart has removed a T-shirt from its online marketplace and cut ties with the third-party seller responsible, after a social media post ignited widespread backlash over its imagery, which some critics interpreted as a racist reference to the Black Lives Matter movement.

A spokesperson for Walmart told Newsweek that the T-shirt, which read "paper beats rock" and showed a white open hand hovering above a Black clenched fist, had been removed.

"We have zero tolerance for any prohibited or offensive products appearing on our Marketplace," Blair Cromwell, director of global communications, U.S. Marketplace, told Newsweek . "The items in question were listed by a third-party seller and have been removed from our site and the seller terminated for violating our prohibited products policy.

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