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A Pride flag was stolen overnight Tuesday, June 11, 2024 from Greenway Memorial Park in Eastwood and replaced with an upside down "thin blue line" flag. On Wednesday, the city put up a new Pride flag.
The PBA uses the ”thin blue line” American flag on its website, on its merchandise and at events hosted by the union, which takes place on township property.
The "thin blue line" is a term the refers to the police as the "thin line" that divides society between order and chaos. According to the Marshall Project, term was used throughout the 20th century.
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 ...
A Connecticut town will review its flag policy after a decision not to fly the Thin Blue Line police flag in honor of a fallen state police trooper drew national attention. Wethersfield Mayor Ken ...
The Wethersfield, Conn. town council refused to fly the “thin blue line” flag at their town hall to honor slain hero State Trooper Aaron Pelletier, who was killed in the line of duty while ...
Throughout the valley, Thin Blue Line displays are popular with law enforcement, including in Ada County. The Sheriff’s Office has a few pieces of artwork in “secure, nonpublic” areas ...
November 14, 2023 Federal court rules Montgomery County township can't ban display of 'thin blue line' flag on municipal property U.S. District Judge Karen Marston decided Monday that Springfield ...
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. (TND) — A community resolution banning the display of the thin blue line flag in a Pennsylvania township is unconstitutional, a federal court ruled this week.
"The Township repeatedly suggests that the Thin Blue Line American Flag is of limited, if any, public value or concern because it is ‘offensive' and ‘racist,'" Marston wrote in the court opinion.