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  They can do that in private then. A defaced American flag does not belong on government property, or during public servants' working hours. Keep that private. As long as taxpayers are footing the bill for those lobbies and cars, and funding their salaries we should expect professionalism. They can deface the flag all they want on their personal time and property. Just don't bring it to work.
context: The classic “I don’t want a 3rd DWI” decal I see on so many Dodge Rams. >
  
  1 in 22.  I work in construction and that tracks.  
  The GMC guys have Roth IRAs and maybe are in rotary club.  And have prostate issues.
  The Ford F-150 guys run the gamut, but lean chaotic good.  
  The Chevy guys have resigned themselves to their positions in life and do not aspire to the GMC level like a damn sellout.
  Toyota drivers are like the hobbits of the truck world.  Scraggly beard-weed smoking-ethnically ambiguous, and smart enough to buy the best truck available for sale anywhere. 
  Mitsu/Nissan/Isuzu drivers are aspiring Toyota drivers, and the most unreasonably optimistic people you will ever meet - losers.  Ford Ranger goes here too.
  Dodge people.  Well, they are very broken people, and they cause a lot of problems for other people around them who don’t see them coming.  Mental health issues are the driving force in their lives.  They should sell the Dodge Ram (and Dakota sport, I might add) with an ignition interlock as a mandatory piece of OEM equipment and available at Napa on a shelf right by the register.
  E: Rivian drivers never wanted a truck until Rivian made one, and it was so sexy we all wanted one too. >
  
  I drive a 97 ford ranger.  It says a i want a truck with a six foot bed that can fit in a normal parking spot, why don’t they make these anymore?
  I’ve also acquired a minivan and an audi as I’ve aged, but I love my tiny truck. >
  
  Yeah but they’re huge.  I mean small compared to other stuff out there now but way bigger than my 97. >
  
  I agree! The new Ranger is the same size my 03 F150 was! 
  Ford Maverick. That's the new "old" tiny truck. >
  
  It's not banned. He just wants it removed from PUBLIC VIEW, like the lobby. They can still have it in their offices, locker rooms, armories, and other places the public normally won't see it. 
  
  Chief Michel Moore ordered the flag, which was widely displayed in station lobbies around the city, to be removed from public view.
  Along with banning the flag from station lobbies, Moore said his order includes patches on uniforms and bumper stickers on police vehicles. Violators could face discipline, a department spokeswoman said Thursday. >
  
  And of course they can still display it when off duty.  Despite the fact that there is no other job on the planet where you could, even in your off hours, display a flag saying "People in my job should be able to murder human beings with impunity" and expect to keep that job. >
  
  I think another interpretation was "police protect society" but personally, I see it as "police protect each other", which is negative because police often DO protect each other from the law.
  At this point the symbol has such a negative meaning that it can't be fixed, IMHO.  It's like a swastika.  Sure, it had a different, better meaning before Nazis, but from now on, it  usually means Nazis.
  People who want to say "police protect society" should find another symbol, because all anyone will see from the thin blue line, is police corruption. >
  
  It came out in retaliation for BLM, from inception this thing was rotten at its core. >
  
  Pretty sure they had a thin blue line before that but it didn't have the American flag in it. Also you saw it way way less before 2020. But I've seen the more discreet symbol at least 20 years ago >
  
  They’re not talking about the blue terrorist slogan, they’re talking about the blue terrorist flag. >
  
  Which person?  I not robot pretty explicitly seems to be discussing the thing that existed before the flag.  That’s not an endorsement of anything incidentally, screw the people putting up any sort of blue line nonsense. >
  
  
  Jamie McBride, an outspoken union officer, posted a photo of the flag hanging from the side of a house on his Instagram account, with the caption “Shame on you Chief Moore! We bleed BLUE!”   
  We bleed BLUE!”   
  
  .... How does this not come off as weird for the people that say this kinda shit?   
  No, no you don't. Your job doesn't make you special, snowflake >
  
  This jackass is perfectly free to fly that fascist flag at his own doublewide.
  But for it to be on police vehicles or work by police officers while they are on duty is completely inappropriate.  Same goes for the Punisher logo.  Anybody who has that sticker on their car should immediately be put on probation. >
  
  What's the story with the Punisher logo? >
  
  The Punisher is a comic book character whose primary defining characteristic is that he straight-up kills criminals.
  Police display it because they believe they should have the right to be judge, jury, and executioner, killing anyone they want at any time. >
  
  I've never seen but, it totally scans for the right to idolize that shit >
  
  Especially because The Punisher is explicitly a deeply broken man who was an ex-soldier who lost his mind when his family was murdered by organized crime and decided to literally go to war against crime. In fact, The Punisher explicitly knows he's a monster not a hero.
  So conservatives lacking even the most basic media literacy and mistaking him for a hero tracks perfectly. >
  
  The Punisher and Fight Club: two movies that give the right wingers a stiffy, while the whole point sails over their pointy heads... >
  
  See also: V For Vendetta, Taxi Driver, American Psycho, Scarface, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Matrix, etc... >
  
  The wild thing is that V for vendetta is literally about rebellion against fascists and cops >
  
  Good it should be banned.  It's a symbol of hate and contempt for others. >
  
  Yep.  If a Domino's delivery driver showed up wearing a shirt that said "Domino's delivery drivers should be allowed to murder with impunity." that person would be fired on the spot.  They wouldn't need to have a rule on the books for it. >
  
  Doninos delivery drivers in cities have more dangerous jobs than police. They are attacked at a higher rate than police. Some are killed. 
  I delivered pizza on a bike in Chicago on the overnight shift during the pandemic. Where’s my fucking commendation? I didn’t even have a gun. >
  
  Everybody has more dangerous jobs than the police. (Even including traffic accidents.) You are also 4 times likelier to be murdered without the badge than you are to be murdered in the line of duty. >
  
  Wouldn't these statistics compound though?  Meaning, if just the average American has a higher chance of being murdered by a family member/spouse/random event/accident, would police ALSO have that same likelihood in addition to on-the-job dangers?  Is there any reason the first statistic would NOT apply to police? >
  
  Other than that I wouldn't be surprised if the cops were more often the murderous spouse, no, you're completely correct.
  And I admit my point is mostly personal bias. >
  
  I would pay money to see the results of how much your risk of DV increases if you live with a cop. >
  
  I used to be a dispatcher, and there was this super nice cop that basically the entire community loved (and still does). I was just a city dispatcher but this guy is a state trooper. Anyway, on one of my nights off, I was drinking with a few cops who were also off... then suddenly one of them got a phone call, and almost all of them left. A few days later, I learned that the super nice cop had been beating his wife, and somehow she phoned the rest of them to come help her.
  I live in a small town where word travels fast, and plenty of the cops had shit about them that would instantly get them fired if people knew (and had proof). Like drinking on duty, DV, joking about murder, etc. >
  
  Anti woke rhetoric is  dog whistle for pro bigotry >
  
  More landscapers die on the job yearly than officers of the law and they don’t have a thin green line flag.  No respect for anyone wearing a thin blue line flag patch.  It’s a desecration of the flag as well as a gang sign. >
  
  Interesting statistic, you weren't kidding. 
  25 per 100k for landscapers
  11-14 per 100k for police officers >
  
  Not only that, but I'm pretty sure COVID has been the leading cause of death among officers these past few years. IOW, it's mostly self-inflicted because these yahoos wouldn't wear masks or get vaccinated. >
  
  
  I'm pretty sure COVID has been the leading cause of death among officers these past few years. 
  
  Last year COVID killed 73 police officers. There were only 60 who were shot and killed. >
  
  Thanks Trump and Tucker! >
  
  There is a thin red line (fire) and a thin green line (military) flag too. These mfkrs are just going to reverse engineer themselves into a rainbow flag. >
  
  We need a thin orange line for EMTs, a thin yellow line for emergency linemen who do disaster recovery work, a thin indigo line for middle class white women who ask to speak to managers, and a thin violet line for "sheepdogs" who conceal carry to protect all the thankless sheep around them. Then combine them all together... >
  
  it's the new confederate flag, plain and simple.  I see a car with one as a bumper sticker and I know the person inside is a racist asshole >
  
  My meth head neighbor has one flying on a flagpole in front of his house. He has a huge rap sheet. My wife and I joke that they fly that flag so the warrant apprehension team is nicer when they come to arrest him. >
  
  I did something like this in college. I had one sticker on my car for something like the Fraternal Order of Police and never got stopped my entire time there. Meanwhile my friend with his car covered in Grateful Dead and weed stickers kept complaining about getting pulled over in our small college town.  I just gesture all over this car and got “THIS dumbass” >
  
  kinda says something about policing, if you have to hide your opinions like that. Land of the free amirite >
  
  100% >
  
  Yeah, it makes perfect sense not to allow cops to display that symbol while working. 
  The only reason people display that is to show contempt for the human beings who are trying to implement basic fucking accountability for police. >
  
  I don't understand why any symbols are allowed at all for police. >
  
  How else they gonna build that gung-ho, self-inclusive "Us vs Them" mentality they use to justify murder on the reg? >
  
  Punisher logos? >
  
  At least when I see that flag I know who my racist piece of shit neighbors are >
  
  LAPD bans the public display of a fascist symbol by its members >
  
  Boggles my mind as an expat in the US how you hold the flag in such reverence but you allow it to be displayed subverted. >
  
  Good. It's a flagrant violation of the Flag Code to deface it like that. >
  
  It's almost part of the gig of being a Trump "patriot" to violate as much of the flag code as possible at one time. Because they're so patriotic, y'know >
  
  They make these versions of the US flag that look like they were painted with bird poop. >
  
  I’m old enough to remember when defacing an American flag to represent a narrow political ideology was offensive as fuck >
  
  Show a rainbow-colored American flag to one of the people flying this shit and they'll scream at you about how offensive it is.
  The hypocrisy is a part of the point.  They can do it and we can't.  Because they are real people and we aren't. >
  
  I upvoted you but also….damn 🔥 >
  
  It's just a hate symbol like the confederate flag or a punisher skull.  Murica getting ready to flame out. >
  
  I saw a state issued license plate (Georgia) with "Back the Badge" on it, with a picture of the flag with the thin blue line.  Didn't think something like that could be produced by the state for purchase. >
  
  It's like there is no flag code to defend our national symbol but considering the intelligence of the rubes I served with 45 years ago I'm not surprised.  Bully larpers is really what these people are.  Hopefully we pull out of this insanity without violence but I for one have lost faith in our law enforcement agencies and the justice department.  Trouble ahead, and trouble behind. >
  
  US of A flag code >
  
  Thanks you for that although the people who use it as a prop of intimidation will never read it. >
  
  Unfortunately I think you’re right >
  
  4 USC Ch. 1: THE FLAG
  From Title 4—FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES
  §1. Flag; stripes and stars on
  The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field.
  (July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642.) >
  
  Only 48 stars? What about the other two stars plus maybe what? 7 of our territories that have yet to apply for statehood? >
  
  He accidentally cited the 1947 version. >
  
  IDK a thin blue line patch is like a red dot on a black widow…it helps me to know to stay the fuck away from them, if at all possible. >
  
  It’s a symbol of demarcation between the endowed with power and the citizenry it’s meant to serve. It absolutely should be banned. I know it won’t fundamentally change that they still don’t serve us or our interests but at least they can keep up appearances. >
  
  Remember MAGA crazies who shouted "Back the blue" when it was related to violence against black people? Then when police tried to stop their insurrection, they literally tried to murder police offers. >
  
  Good! Finally some proactive legislation. This stupid flag has been co-opted by domestic right wing terrorist organizations. This needs to be National! >
  
  These flag wavers attacked capitol and metropolitan police on 1/6 - they should ban it and remove anyone who refuses to comply. >
  
  Thin blue line is a desecration of the flag. >
  
  TBL violates US flag code, seems like they're just enforcing that >
  
  Maybe if cops saw themselves less as gang members, and more as public servants, some of their more egregious brutality would sort itself out. >
  
  In late 2019 I found out the little league wanted to put this flag on my 4yr olds uniform in order for him to play tee-ball. I wrote a strongly worded letter saying that we would leave the league if they didn’t take it off… they accepted our resignation and we found another league. 
  At the time it was just us that had a problem with the flag. The other parents and admin (including some f LAPD folks) didn’t see any problem with the flag or forcing toddlers to wear political propaganda that they don’t understand to try out tball.
  This move by Moore and the comments here are making me feel a bit vindicated… doubt I get an apology from the little league though. >
  
  Let’s never forget that these stupid red/blue/green lines were only popularized as a protest to black people wanting equal rights. Fuck everyone with these stupid ass racist lines displayed everywhere. >
  
  I called my local precinct here on Long Island when I saw it flying and sternly complained that it was a bastardization of the American flag and that it absolutely does not represent anything other than a racist ideological view. I also said it was shameful to fly because our neighborhood is very diverse and that they shouldn't be alienating anyone in our community. I can't say if I was the only one complaining but I have not seen it flying since. And like others have said on this thread, if I see it flying anywhere I know the people who own it are assholes. Period. >
  
  Amen brotha! Its true, if anyone reading this has a Blue/All Lives matter flag or sticker proudly visible (y’all know who you are) then you likely a asshole. And not the good kind of asshole, the kind of ass hole that steals from grandma. 
  Same for those flying any of the following flags: come take it,
  Punisher, FJB, confederate or Q inspired flag. Really tho — you’re not owning the libs with these stupid flags. >
  
  Everything you need to know about police culture in the US is truly summed up by this flag. Disinfranchised members of our population got together and simply asked not to be murdered and cops turned it around like they were the victims for the issue even being discussed. >
  
  I’m Irish Catholic from Boston so, surprise, I had a lot of cops in my family, some of who held very high rank in the department. Every year my Aunt who lived in Charlestown would throw an out of control St. Patrick’s day party. She lived a block from the parade route so all my uncles and cousins would swing by as did their on duty friends so the party would always have uniformed police and cruisers out front, meanwhile the party was like 150 very drunk folks cranking music to 10 and drinking the way a bunch of alcoholic/ borderline alcoholics/ very heavy drinkers do. One year a neighbor called the cops when my cousins set up a makeshift target range in the backyard. The dispatch radio called the disturbance the 15 or so on duty cops drinking at the party had a good laugh and said they’d “look into it” then they walked across the street busted out the neighbors headlights, tail lights and side window. It was the 80’s there were at least 2 captains at the party, nothing ever came of it. About 10 years later I worked with a guy who used to live in my Aunts street and he had witnessed the event I am telling you about. What struck me was how terrified that made him, I was a kid and thought it was messed up but took my family at their word that the guy “should have known better”, but for him it wasn’t cousin Mikey and his buddies blowing off some steam. It was a group of drunk cops getting violent after already proving there is no one that could be called for help. I hear the “it’s only a few bad apples” argument all the time but the family Patriarch was head of a department and he put some genuinely bad people in prison, but he also stood on the porch drinking a beer while a bunch of uniformed cops beat the shit out of a guys car and terrorized a citizen for complaining our party was too loud. >
  
  the first time i saw this interpretation of the thin blue line flag, i had to look at it closely to figure out what it was. i thought it was pretty clever and pretty accurate. >
  
  Reminds me of the active duty military I saw at an airport in NC a couple months back wearing a flag on his uniform with a punisher skull.
  That's exactly what I saw it to be.  Should be banned. >
  
  If it were in a public place I'd ask him which part of AR 670-1 authorizes that. 
  His reaction would tell you everything. >
  
  The article denotes the flag's original intent as police support when it's original intent was to counter African Americans calling the nation's attention to racist policing. It was an attempt to cancel another symbol. >
  
  Just reminder….blue is a choice…. black is a race. >
  
  It’s a gang sign. >
  
  Fuck that flag and every person who displays it. >
  
  While we’re on the subject of flags, it’s crazy to me how ubiquitous the black POW/MIA flag has become.  Trump even made every post office in the country fly it daily.
  The POW/MIA flag symbolism began as part of Nixon’s re-election campaign in 72.  It was a Pro-Vietnam War flag, meant to keep Americas remembering the “missing” airmen downed over Vietnam that were supposedly never returned.  This was a major republican talking point well into the 90’s and was something Reagan campaigned on constantly (getting Vietnam to return our POW/MIAs).
  But there never were any POWs.  Nixon had changed the classification for airmen shot down/presumed dead to MIA.  So if your wingman’s plane went into the jungle at 500 knots he was presumed missing rather than dead and his family never received a military funeral.  Nixon did this to make it look like we were taking fewer casualties.  But by the end of the war there were some 1,400 MIAs who couldn’t be returned bc they’d been dead for years.
  Of course Nixon and the GOP never acknowledged this, instead they campaigned on it. >
  
  I'm good with it. >
  
  
  The tension between those irreconcilable interpretations spilled over in the Los Angeles Police Department this month, when Chief Michel Moore ordered the flag, which was widely displayed in station lobbies around the city, to be removed from public view.
  Along with banning the flag from station lobbies, Moore said his order includes patches on uniforms and bumper stickers on police vehicles. Violators could face discipline, a department spokeswoman said Thursday.
  In a departmentwide email, Moore said the flag’s original meaning of support for police had been overshadowed when it began appearing at rallies for the Proud Boys and other far-right extremist groups.
  “It’s unfortunate that extremist groups have hijacked the use of the ‘Thin Blue Line Flag’ to symbolize their undemocratic, racist, and bigoted views. Flags serve as powerful symbols with specific meanings,” he wrote, adding that officers would still be allowed to display the flag in their personal work spaces, lockers and personal vehicles.
  Moore’s decision went viral in right-wing media circles as critics lambasted him for what they called his kowtowing to progressive ideals. During one of her regular appearances on Fox News, former reality star and Olympic decathlete Caitlyn Jenner accused Moore of “going woke on us big time” and predicted that the move would deal a blow to officer morale.
  
  Not really surprising to me, lived in LA County my whole life, did history papers at UCLA, the stuff they did in the past like Bloody Christmas and harassing Dophlin's fo Hollywood, and that's just the historically written stuff. I remember someone who worked at my high school back in the 2000s mentioning how she was once pulled over for no reason other than being of Mexican descent by cops, like they brought in several more before letting her go, it's that whole culture here that needs to go. >
  
  Thin blue line is codeword for cops knowingly protecting the bad actions of other bad cops.
  Cops are the vanguards for the worst fringes of society. >
  
  
  In a departmentwide email, Moore said the flag’s original meaning of support for police had been overshadowed when it began appearing at rallies for the Proud Boys and other far-right extremist groups.
  
  Bullshit. The flag was created in direct opposition to Black Lives Matter. It means nothing more or less than "cops can kill whoever they want." >
  
  The flag had been around long before the BLM movement. It actually started with just a blue line on a black background and morphed into the flag at least as far back as 2008-09. it was always a gang symbol but the racist undertones really started to overshadow the core of the idea around 2012-13. >
  
  Cite that. >
  
  same people who tell you kneeling to the national anthem should be banned and that the flag is sacred will complain when you tell them not to deface the flag.  The thing is you can't do it because that is unpatriotic while if they do it because it is patriotic.
  You are not part of their in group. 
  Why do we even listen to them at all? >
  
  Hypocrisy is a part of the point.  It's a form of flexing.  It shows that they can get away with shit they won't let inferior scum like us get away with.  It puts us in our place. >
  
  Police should fly the same flag that our soldiers and firemen do.
  This thin blue line stuff just sends the message that a lot of police think that the people they serve are actually a separate entity who are deemed as something to distance themselves from. They are civilian enforcers of laws, not a federalized military force.
  And the thin blue line flag is a bastardization of the American flag.
  I find it funny how a lot of these folks see themselves as the true Americans but then turn around to fly the confederate flag or the thin blue line flag.
  The lack of self-awareness is comedic. >
  
  By a lot do you mean basically any officer with more than 1 year of seniority? The good cops are generally weeded out by then. >
  
  If I ever see that thin blue line sticker on any vehicle I usually assume they're a racist asshole
  I normally hate to assume anything but that flag is usually a pr replacement of a confederate flag >
  
  I think the only exception is taco trucks.  I've seen that flag on a few taco trucks, but they probably put it there to prevent the cops from harassing them. >
  
  Last year a new neighbor moved next door. He was from Brazil. First time in the USA. He put a thin blue line sticker on his car. M
  After we became friendly I asked him if he knew what the sticker meant. He said he did and, when researching on how to be safe in the USA, found lots of resources recommending the sticker as a way to avoid unnecessary run ins with the cops. >
  
  We hung a pride flag on our porch during pride month and a few days later a couple that owns a shed (but not a house) put up a thin blue line flag on the shed, like three times bigger with a spotlight on it all night. I wish I could report it as a hate flag, it is so obviously raised in response to our little pride flag, and it such a hateful symbol. >
  
  Just go fill in the other lines in with rainbow colors and tell them you fixed their pride flag for them. >
  
  Oh, believe me, I've thought about it but these are cops we're talking about. I would 100% get arrested for defacing property or something. I'm considering just getting a way bigger rainbow flag, or perhaps rainbow bunting... >
  
  It’s right up there with the tattered flag and We The People shit on peoples cars.  Great way to identify people who are horrible.  Might as well be a confederate flag. >
  
  Pretty self righteous to add a line on the flag in self honor.  I don’t support the police and don’t think they should be allowed to publicly desecrate our flag. >
  
  There also need to be a ban on the punisher logo and emblem on cops. >
  
  There's no "culture war". There are fascists and people who are anti-fascist. Then there are people who look at the two and can't tell the difference. >
  
  You can’t “back the blue” if you don’t support the Capitol Police Officers >
  
  So they'll just move the flags into their offices next to their nazi flags? >
  
  I drive by one of these every day and all I can see is the United States divided by a blue lie >
  
  There was a big to-do in my northeast state maybe 15 years ago when it was 'supposed' to identify family members of state troopers vehicles. Once people caught on that it was really just a code for don't pull me over I'm one of you, and everyone started using them, the troopers lost their shit and tried to make it an officially issued front plate, like having blue lights on your vehicle type thing. >
  
  They should do this in the NYPD as well. Fuck these thin blue line flags. I always associate them with asshole drivers who wantonly speed and blow reds and menace cyclists. They should also ban any kind of bullshit police-affiliation crap on windshields and dashes, like police logo stickers (so many assholes have these in NYC) and folded up reflective vests with the initials of the police department on them. These are all ways in which bullshitting scofflaws attempt to get away with obnoxious and illegal behavior like parking in bike lanes and blocking hydrants, and it actually appears to work. >
  
  I hate those flags! >
  
  the sound of children screaming has been removed. >
  
  Culture war? The culture of cops murdering innocent people and abusing their power? Then good, get rid of that fucking blue line. >
  
  Good.  It’s disrespectful to the entire US. >
  
  It’s not a culture war, it’s common decency war. >
  
  “Sal LaBarbera, a former LAPD homicide detective who has amassed a large following on Twitter, posted that the department was making national headlines “for the most embarrassing reason.”
  “Calling Chief Michael Moore weak for caving to the communist Mayor. Grow a spine, support the troops and law and order,” read his tweet, which used the hashtag #BackTheBlue.”
  Support the troops? They see themself’s as an occupying force not the public servants that they are. >
  
  All the Thin Colored line flags
  Good.
  Saw a thin blue line flag with a Cowboys star instead of the 50 mini stars the other day. The thin blue line flag went too far by modifying the US flag. There's no argument to justify this stupid design. The stupidest variation is the Thin green line that stands for Armed Forces. They already have a flag and it's the American flag and their respective flag (i.e. Marine Corp Flag). Let me put it another way, try modifying a Marine Corp. flag to suit your unpopular cause and see how far you make it. >
  
  My nephew knows that flag as "the flag the terrorists used as a weapon to beat police with on January 6th."
  Good kid. >
  
  1312 >
  
  The police should not be allowed to display it at all. >
  
  Punisher logo shirts with this superimposed on them next? 🤔 >
  
  I don't know why it took so long, it really pushes us vs them narrative making the police officers job that much harder >
  
  A salvo in the culture wars? It’s not being taken away to antagonize anyone, unlike it’s actual existence…to antagonize. >
  
  I’m good not allowing people with a license to use violence to display a hate symbol >
  
  Should be banned everywhere. >
  
  Love how the same people who act like burning the American flag is worse than murder, also consider it patriotic to deface one with bleach and a blue marker. >
  
  Good.  Flag is fascist bullshit. >
  
  Against flag code anyways for those "Patriots" >
  
  It’s not an American flag, so that makes sense. >
  
  I always felt the flag was a perfect reflection of the most fundamental problem with police, which is that they see their allegiance to each other as more important than their duty to protect and serve civilians in their community. Every occupying army needs its own flag. >
  
  It is illegal anyway. >
  
  There's no war, just terrorists and the rest of us >
  
  It’s literally a line that is thin and blue. It cannot mean anything other than “thin blue line”, which is the code cops follow to protect each other from any consequences for their misconduct. This flag says “I like that cops do immoral and illegal stuff, because they mostly do it to people I hate.”
  Oh, and it mysteriously appeared in 2020 when black people were protesting for police reform. I’m sure that was just a coincidence though. >
  
  Why the fuck were Law Enforcement using that symbol anyways?
  Obama giving Obama a medal meme. 
  You support yourself? Cool. >
  
  I support police doing a difficult job, what I can’t support is the institutional racism, the unnecessary violence, and the attitude of just close the case as opposed to getting to the actual truth. >
  
  TL;DR   People are modifying the American flag to show you their version of American is better than yours smh.  Any modification to the flag shows you are arrogant. >
  
  Conservatives say that blm is a hate group, I say that anyone flying a back the blue flag supports terrorism. >
  
  It is a violation of the US flag code to change the colors or add a design on the flag. I guess True Patriots only follow the law when it suits them. >
  
  Came here to say this! Nice to see I’m
  Not the only one who knows flag code anymore. >
  
  good..it's straight up gang shit, disrespectful to the actual flag, and if the police departments are paying for the cars to be decorated with those shits like a town near me, a waste of taxpayer dollars >
  
  Yeah just like, stop editing the american flag to cater to a specific ideology. >
  
  I find it tacky at the best of times, but I'm not going to act like every use of an edited flag is the same.  A rainbow version to show LGBT acceptance or a version with a bunch of various religious symbols replacing the stars to show religious acceptance is nowhere near the same level of offensive. >
  
  All jobs matter. >
  
  Not sure why these things are allowed in any public space considering it'a a major violation of the US flag code. >
  
  Spot on. One flag reps us all. >
  
  My neighbor has the thin blue line flag hanging in front of his house. He got ticketed twice in one month and he was whining that 'f'ing cops should do their job catching bad guys, not giving me speeding tickets'.
  I interpreted 'bad guys' as minorities and it's ironic that he's not seeing that his speeding actually made him a 'bad guy'.
  *He took down the thin blue line flag and replaced it with a regular American flag. >
  
  If we start having alternative US flags for different groups of people then it means we aren’t a country. 
  There is nothing wrong with the Red White and Blue! >
  
  Fuck the police!   (but this move by the Chief is commendable as fuck) >
  
  This flag was part of the Jan 6 insurrection where police officers were murdered.  Go figure. >
  
  Nah. It's because they don't want people to be able to easily identify or know just how many cops are white nationalists. >
  
  It's a violation of the US Flag Code. >
  
  So what? I personally think coloring the US flag to show everyone how much you “support” something is childishly stupid. 
  But it’s definitely not illegal and I seriously doubt it’s worth any of the equally ridiculous pushback. 
  The real hilarious irony is, given the majority of the people who place value on these symbols, were the same who were furious about protests against the flag.
  It’s just a cult symbol to establish one’s lack of literacy and critical thinking skills, so I would encourage those who enjoy this thing to let everyone know ahead that they are dealing with someone with a severely diminished intelligence.