2020年6月9日 · As protests over policing continue to convulse cities throughout the U.S., one symbol keeps showing up: a black-and-white American flag with one blue stripe. Recently, the flag was flown...

2020年6月8日 · As protests over policing continue to convulse cities throughout the U.S., one symbol keeps showing up: a black-and-white American flag with one blue stripe. Recently, the flag was flown from the back of a car alongside protests …

The blue line symbol. The "thin blue line" is a term that typically refers to the concept of the police as the line between law-and-order and chaos in society. [1]The "blue" in "thin blue line" refers to the blue color of the uniforms of many police departments. The phrase originated as an allusion to The Thin Red Line incident during the Crimean War in 1854, wherein a Scottish regiment ...

2017年8月18日 · A black-and-white American flag with a thin blue line across its center appeared among the Confederate flags toted by the white supremacists and neo-Nazis during the violent protests.

2020年10月26日 · The thin blue line flag features a black and white image of the American flag with the horizontal stripe beneath the field of white stars on the black background. The stars represent the citizenry who stand for justice and order.

2021年2月24日 · The imagery of a single blue line on a black-and-white American flag — inspired by the phrase "Thin Blue Line" — has sparked a fiery debate over the role of police and law enforcement.

2020年11月23日 · What is the Thin Blue Line? The phrase Thin Blue Line represents the idea that law enforcement (associated with blue uniforms) acts as the barrier (or “line”) between the community they protect and lawlessness. In the 2010s, the Thin Blue Line has also been used to refer to a black flag with a blue line running horizontally across the ...

What started as a phrase, became popularized as a graphic image, then unfurled as a thin blue line flag, has been around for a long time. The thin blue line is seen on police cars, lapel pins, coffee cups and COVID-19 masks. Only recently has the thin blue line flag sparked controversy.

2024年1月4日 · Like other mash-ups of identity flags with the American flag, the thin blue line flag is a rallying point for a marginalized identity, a way to lay claim to the American birthright,...

2024年5月6日 · Supporters of the Blue Line flag are not insensitive to the Flag Code’s standards. They argue that it’s not a desecration of the American flag, because it’s a completely different flag. But in numerous places where it’s sold online, it’s called the Thin Blue Line American Flag or the American Thin Blue Line Flag.