Before the flag came the phrase. The idea of a “thin blue line” can be traced all the way back to a 1854 British battle formation, a “thin red line” used during the Crimean War and then ...

LAGUNA BEACH, CA - AUGUST 20: A flag with the thin blue line, which is used to honor the fallen and the courage of police officers, lies on the boardwalk near the feet of police keeping ...

The "Thin Blue Line" stands for law enforcement's separation of order from chaos, or, as Oxford Dictionaries describes, it's a reference to police, "in the context of maintaining order during ...

The "Thin Blue Line" phrase gave shape to the black, white, and blue American flag near the end of 2015 upon the inception of the Blue Lives Matter movement. Advertisement ...

Lots of police unions have endorsed President Donald Trump, and he has taken to flashing images of the Thin Blue Line flag, meant to support law enforcement, at his rallies.

All images of the "Thin Blue Line" flag have been directed to be removed from the lobby of the Los Angeles Police Department and police vehicles.

The thin blue line problem The controversial version of the U.S. flag has been criticized as a symbol of white supremacy that fuels greater divide in the city at a time when police-community ...

Some of our neighbors, however, flew a different flag that contained similar shapes, but was mostly black and blue. Theirs was a “Thin Blue Line” flag, now a common sight in my neighborhood.

A Massachusetts firefighters union says it has taken down the “Thin Blue Line” flags it displayed on its trucks in support of police officers following days of resistance to a town order ...