{"id":9686,"date":"2020-09-10T22:20:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2023-04-07T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T06:48:26","slug":"thin-blue-line-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/thin-blue-line-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Blue Line flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Thin Blue Line flag<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: International<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.abcnews.com\/images\/US\/WireAP_8b785cdfa3174998acecdf4d7b6d6740_4x3_992.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco police chief bans 'thin blue line' face masks - ABC News\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>What is the \u2018Thin Blue Line\u2019?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The term is \u201cused to refer to the police, typically in the context of maintaining order during unrest.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The contentious flag<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>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\u00a0Covid-19 pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thin Blue Line flag Relevance: Prelims: International What is the \u2018Thin Blue Line\u2019? The term is \u201cused to refer to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,18],"tags":[2243,2242,2240,2239,2238,2237,2241,2236,392],"class_list":["post-9686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-ii","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-blue-lives-matter","tag-controversy","tag-flag","tag-law-and-order","tag-police","tag-right-wing","tag-thin-blue-line","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13662,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions\/13662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}