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Originally Posted by timun

Well, no, that's not what it means, and that's clear. You can't just announce something and have it be fact.

Tom Nolan, associate professor of sociology at Emmanuel College who previously worked with the Boston Police Department, said the "Thin Blue Line" fosters an "us against them" mentality, in which "the police firmly believed that they are, in fact, the metaphorical and literal 'Thin Blue Line' between order and anarchy, between the good guys and the bad guys."
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Above the blue line represents the "good" spoken in Reagan's quote, while below the line represents the "evil." The law enforcement brothers and sisters in the United States make Ronald Reagan's quote a reality, and the Thin Blue Line represents their constant bravery. They risk their lives daily upon the streets of America. The Thin Blue Line is a small token to remind us that the presence of law enforcement is to bring forth peace and diminish hostility and violence.
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The most reliable account of the origin of the thin blue line is the story of the thin red line. A red-coated Scottish regiment of the British Army during the Crimean War heroically stood, outnumbered, against repeated Russian attacks. This effort of the 1854 battle, most notably associated with Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Charge of the Light Brigade” was described by the British press as the thin red line. The idea of a line of brave defenders standing between peace and chaos was borrowed by law enforcement whose typically blue uniforms were testimony to true blue loyalty and steadfastness.
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whatever the #### someone wants to claim the symbolism to be rooted in I guess.

The use of the flag didn't gain much currency until it was flown after a certain cop in Minneapolis nonchalantly murdered a certain black man in the street. It's pretty strongly associated with injustices carried out by police forces all over North America...

Or...that's not the case (as already demonstrated) and is what some people may have perceived because they were not involved until such event?