Thin Blue Line flag

Relevance: Prelims: International

What is the ‘Thin Blue Line’?

• The term is “used to refer to the police, typically in the context of maintaining order during unrest.”
• The contentious flag
  • It was after 2014 that a flag representing the Thin Blue Line idea appeared; a black and white version of the American national flag, with a blue stripe running horizontally under the stars.
  • The flag, which aims to express support for law and order and police personnel, was soon embraced by several serving and retired officers across the country; many attaching it to their patrol vehicles, uniforms and even displaying them on face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • However, the flag stirred controversy after it was co-opted by right wing groups, especially by the Blue Lives Matter movement, which sprung up in 2014 as a counterforce to the anti-racism Black Lives Matter movement.

 

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