Also, if you're not from the USA, you're more likely to associate it with the beloved Rowan Atkinson sitcom.
We still let people use the Swastika if they had a harmless tradition of using it beforetime. But if anybody new uses it, we assume it's because of the murder.
I don't know how Tso was using it and don't care nor have any reason to defend him, don't mistake me.
You mean its popularisation and heavy use by William Henry Parker III, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (from 1950 to 1966)?
He very much used it in a loaded manner to portray police as bastions of good and the last defence against "the criminal element".
From his wikipedia page:
Parker himself was known for his "unambiguous racism".