The “Thin Blue Line” flag—a symbol of public support for police—has been banned from public areas within the Los Angeles Police Department after a complaint about the flag being displayed at a local police station.
This from westernjournal.com.
According to Fox News:
The banner, a frequent target of progressives, had been displayed over the front desk of the Rampart Station when someone in the community complained about its presence.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore told the outlet last week:
Yesterday, we received a community complaint of the presence of a Blue Line Flag with the view that it symbolized support for violent extremist views, such as those represented by the Proud Boys and others.
Moore said he then
[D]irected to have the item taken down from the public lobby.
And he suggested that the flag be replaced with either a U.S. flag or memorials for fallen officers.
Moore told Fox:
The ‘thin blue line’ flag, has become a ‘divisive’ symbol that represents extremist views to some people.
Moore said in a statement, according to KTTV:
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.
However, he clarified that this is not his opinion of the flag.
To him, it:
Represents the honor, valor, dedication, and sacrifice of law enforcement to protect our communities.
Moore said:
Tragically, that view is not universally held and others have been able to persuade the public it symbolizes racist, bigoted and oppressive values.
Los Angeles, like most major American cities, has seen its share of public protests that have turned violent in recent years, with many claiming the problem is law enforcement, not law breakers.
Moore added:
[T]he ban will not prevent employees and staff from hanging the ‘thin blue line’ flag in their workspaces, lockers, and personal vehicles—just not in public lobbies.
According to KTTV, Moore also said:
Given our lobbies should be places that people feel safe, free of political ideology, and welcoming, it remains our long-standing policy that only official items be displayed.
However, the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL), a union representing close to 10,000 LAPD staff members, has condemned Moore’s decision as “political pandering.”
We will display it proudly and will not let anyone distort the true meaning.
“…The blue line represents the men and women of law enforcement who stand in the gap between the lawless and the innocent.“@LAPDHQ pic.twitter.com/vNdfmHjwdQ
— Los Angeles Police Protective League (@LAPPL) January 11, 2023
Fox reported, the Board of Directors for the LAPPL said in a statement:
It is difficult to express the level of utter disgust and disappointment with Chief Moore’s politically pandering directive to remove Thin Blue Line flags and memorials for fallen officers from all public areas within our police stations.
The union stated:
This direction came as a result of complaints from anti-police, criminal apologists, and activists who hold too much sway over our city leaders and, unfortunately, our Chief.
They called Moore’s decision:
[D]isrespectful and defeatist kowtowing by our department leadership to groups that praise the killing of police officers and outright call for violence against those of us in uniform.
Adding that:
[We] have directly expressed our outrage to the Chief.
Their statement continued:
Let’s all remember what the Thin Blue Line flag is and what it represents: ‘The Thin Blue Line flag features a black and white image of the American flag with the horizontal stripe beneath the field of white stars on the black background. The stars represent the citizenry who stand for justice and order. The darkness represents chaos and anarchy, and to many, a memorial to the law enforcement officers who have perished in the line of duty.’
Meanwhile, a Pennsylvania township recently voted for a similar ban against the ‘Thin Blue Line’ flag.
Last night, Springfield Township in Montgomery County, PA, voted to ban the Thin Blue Line Logo from township premises.
Commissioner Eddie Graham compared the Thin Blue line logo to a confederate flag. pic.twitter.com/C7ihQSopBb
— Megan Brock (@MegEBrock) January 13, 2023
Springfield Township manager Michael Taylor told Fox News Digital that the resolution, passed 5-2 by the township’s Board of Commissioners this week:
[P]rohibits the display of what is actually the ‘Blue Lives Matter Flag’ on the uniforms of Township employees or that symbol being affixed or installed on Township Property.
Fox reported, the board cited the flag’s controversy, with Commissioner Eddie Graham saying that:
[W]aving the ‘Thin Blue Line Flag” is just like for African Americans the waving of a Confederate flag.
Final thoughts: I say, ‘May the ‘Thin Blue Line’ flag be the Red Line that will not be crossed.’
The damn woke complainers have pushed We the People into a corner. Not another damn inch.
Liberal California is filled with fruits and nuts, and We the People should periodically remind them that the world, the country, the state does not revolve around them.
And the same should go for any other enclave of Woke, queer, mentally-ill weirdness.
Get with the Program ’cause the Program ain’t gonna get with you.
