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It’s a hate flag, no less than the Confederate or Nazi flags, but they’re allowed too — in your window at home, or on the bumper of your personal car.

This, though, is vile —

… Tensions began when the Springfield Township Police Department incorporated the “thin blue line” flag into its official logo in 2021. …

  • klemptor@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Springfield Twp is largely progressive, I hadn’t even noticed that our police had added the thin blue line to their logo. This doesn’t represent the majority of people here, just the cops, whose biggest on-the-job risk is that someone might get in line ahead of them at Wawa.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty sure the majority wouldn’t agree with what that flag stands for if they knew. If it’s part of the official police department logo, though, it represents everyone in town.