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Sarasota County Sheriff’s Capt. Ryan Brown says his 400 or so deputies are now prohibited from wearing the “thin blue line” logo while on duty.

The dispute in Springfield Township, about 15 miles from Philadelphia, arose over the use of the black-and-white American flag, with one horizontal blue stripe.

A federal court has decided that a resolution prohibiting the display of an American flag with a thin blue line on all township property in a Pennsylvania community is unconstitutional.

The ruling about the flag that’s also used as part of the police union’s logo came down Monday. The dispute in Springfield Township, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from Philadelphia, arose over the ...

A symbol of police solidarity, it’s been co-opted by racist groups; flags with thin blue line logos, for example, (in this country it’s a black-and-white Canadian flag bisected by a horizontal ...