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Pulgar won a $1,000 savings bond with his winning design. Mendoza said no decision has been made on whether he loses the award. Attorney Blake Horwitz, who represents Loor and her son, demanded an apology from Weis. "Now this is a bunch of nonsense being blown way out of proportion," Horwitz said. Pulgar's art teacher, Janice Gould, said the hands were copied from a handout she'd provided the boy. She said she recognizes gang symbols after decades of working with troubled inner city youth and that there are none in Pulgar's work. Weis on Wednesday reiterated his belief that the configuration of the hands, the heart and the placing of the hands atop the heart are all consistent with symbols of a particular gang. "If you look at all of that, you're fighting a battle of perception, not intent, because we'll never know what was in this young man's heart," he said.
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