News

A new Idaho law banning government entities from flying many flags, including for Pride, has caused a fuss. Parma police took down a Thin Blue Line flag.
"Akin to a Confederate flag": The fraught history of the "thin blue line" American flag A man held a flag with a thin blue line at a vigil for five police officers killed in Dallas in 2016.
The thin blue line flag, sometimes also called the Blue Lives Matter flag, has a deep and complicated history. Illustration by Joe Cruz.
A Montgomery County township cannot bar police and municipal employees from displaying the “thin blue line” flag, a federal judge ruled this week. The ruling comes after Pennsylvania’s largest police ...
A federal court has ruled that a Pennsylvania community's resolution prohibiting the display of an American flag with a thin blue line on all township property is unconstitutional. The ruling ...
This is regarding the Los Angeles Times article “LAPD bans flag, latest salvo in culture war,” which was published on Page A6 of the Jan. 23 LNP | LancasterOnline.
Moore has also prohibited using the thin blue line patch on officer uniforms or bumper stickers on police vehicles. Displaying the flag on non-public property such as an officer’s locker ...
AUSTIN, Texas - The Los Angeles Police Department has banned the display of thin blue line flags. Chief Michael Moore says there will be no displaying of the thin blue line flag at public events ...
The mandate comes in response to the flag’s divisive symbolism — some believe it represents support for law enforcement; others say it’s become a symbol of far-right ideology.