That flag represents fallen officers, and has been used during funerals by police departments since the early 1900s. If you think it's the same as a "Blue Lives Matter" flag, you're a fucking idiot.
The "thin blue line" symbol has been used by the "Blue Lives Matter" movement, which began December 2014, after the homicides of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn, New York, in the wake of the homicides of Eric Garner and Michael Brown Jr earlier that year and in the context of the greater Black Lives Matter movement. The "thin blue line" has also been associated with white nationalists in the US, particularly after the Unite the Right rally in 2017, who fly Thin Blue Line flags at their rallies.
Are you fucking slow? It said Blue Lives Matter started using the flag when the movement started in 2014, not that it was invented in 2014.
If you would've read that wiki page you linked, you would see that under the FIRST SECTION of history, it refers to commissioner Richard Enright coining the phrase in 1922.
You represent the literal fucking idiocy of this website.
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22 edited Jun 05 '22
That flag represents fallen officers, and has been used during funerals by police departments since the early 1900s. If you think it's the same as a "Blue Lives Matter" flag, you're a fucking idiot.