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Thin blue line symbol represents police officers who separate order from chaos, says company that sells flag By Brian Flood Fox News Published October 30, 2020 10:24am EDT ...
Demonstrators burned Thin Blue Line flags outside the Sacramento Police Department on March 2, 2019, after the district attorney announced that officers did not break any laws when they shot ...
The Thin Blue Line flag dates back only to 2014. It’s the brainchild of a white college student from an affluent suburb of Detroit, Andrew Jacob, who found the outcry against police violence ...
More recently, in May of this year, San Francisco police officers responded to a housing protest wearing face masks emblazoned with the thin blue line flag — a display that drew immediate push back.
A 2018 law review article claimed the "thin blue line" doubles as a reference to an unwritten code of silence among police officers used to cover up police misconduct. "Thin blue line" flags have ...
The "Thin Blue Line" stands for law enforcement's separation of order from chaos, or, as Oxford Dictionaries describes, it's a reference to police, "in the context of maintaining order during ...
“Obviously, you’ve seen caravans with the Trump flag in the back of pickup trucks and then the thin blue line,” Mr. DeMasi, a former police officer, said.
The black and white flag with the blue stripe — which adopts the likeness of the American flag — does not violate the U.S. Flag Code. See the sources for this fact-check ...
Seventeen ‘thin blue line’ flags waved by the ‘Welcome to Las Vegas Sign’ as Officer Jason Roscow's police motorbike, casket, and those escorting drove down Las Vegas Boulevard on Thursday ...
An eastern Pennsylvania township wanted to keep its policy banning its township police from displaying the “thin blue line” flag” so badly that it appealed a federal judge’s ruling to an ...
They beat police officers with Blue Lives Matter flags. They fought us, they had Confederate flags in the U.S. Capitol.” Dunn is a 13-year veteran in the U.S. Capitol Police Department.
White understands how the thin blue line flag has become a part of police culture, and that officers may view it as a sign of solidarity, but also worries about the message it sends to the public. “It ...