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Cults fly flags. Somehow TRUMP and Q have made cops into a cult, or were they always a "thin blue line" cult? This "thin blue line", flag, erupted during trump. They work for us and we should not live in fear. It fosters this ‘us versus them’ mentality.
Cults fly flags. Somehow TRUMP and Q have made cops into a cult, or were they always a "thin blue line" cult? This "thin blue line", flag, erupted during trump. They work for us and we should not live in fear. It fosters this ‘us versus them’ mentality.
In the 1950s, “The Thin Blue Line” was the title of a briefly running television show about the Los Angeles Police Department, masterminded by the chief, William H. Parker, Parker was known for unambiguous racism.
William H. Parker, said some immigrants were “not far removed from the wild tribes of Mexico” and compared black residents participating in the Watts Riots—which stemmed in part from anger over his own department’s mistreatment—to “monkeys in a zoo.”
Alisa Kramer, who wrote a 2007 dissertation on Parker's tenure. "There are a lot of parallels between Parker and Trump; Parker had no understanding of the complexities of poverty and racism." https://search.proquest.com/openview/f3efda99a6a116b920bd1b7e833b1f53/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
After Parker’s sudden death in 1966, the city named the police headquarters after him. The Parker Center went on to be a primary site of protests in 1992 after police were filmed beating Rodney King.
Criminologists Don L. Kurtz and Alayna Colburn have analyzed the language police officers use in formal interviews, and argue that the “thin blue line” idea is an example of popular culture informing internal police culture, highlighting
“the assumed differences between officers and citizens and further progresses an ‘us versus them’ mentality among officers.”
Melina Abdullah, a co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter, "It feels akin to a Confederate flag." She has also noticed the flag's image on police and other government-owned vehicles, and she sees this as evidence that even self-described liberal officials
are not doing enough to combat white supremacy. "The supposed 'liberal' answer to Donald Trump has not been as critical of police violence as it should be," Melina Abdullah said.
San Francisco’s chief of police Bill Scott banned his officers from wearing face masks emblazoned with the thin blue line flag, worrying they would be seen as “divisive and disrespectful.”
County officials in Oregon recently paid $100,000 to a black employee of a law enforcement agency there, after she said she was harassed by coworkers for complaining about her colleagues displaying the flag at work. IT WAS BEING USED AS A RACIST TROLLING TOOL.
During Trump some states began passing laws to categorize physical attacks on law enforcement officers as hate crimes.
Police - the CIVIL force of a national or local government, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order.
Police - the CIVIL force of a national or local government, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order.
