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 Resolution restricts the display of the Thin Blue Line American Flag, a symbol that reflects both a respect for fallen members of law enforcement and protests the Black Lives Matter movement.

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The PBA declined, and in response, the Township passed Resolution No. 1592 "prohibit[ing] the publicly visible display or use of any image which depicts the Thin Blue Line American Flag symbol by ...

Barring ‘thin blue line' flag on Pa. township property is unconstitutional, US court rules A federal court has ruled that a Springfield Township's resolution prohibiting the display of an ...

The dispute in Springfield Township, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from Philadelphia, arose over the use of the black-and-white American flag, with one horizontal blue stripe.

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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 ...

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