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 popularized in ...

For weeks, a black-and-white American flag with a blue stripe down the middle stood above the New Jersey Turnpike. The flag, posted on an overpass in Woodbridge Township, appeared this spring ...

Philly artists stitched together their red, white, and blue designs to create a massive American flag fit for the United States Semiquincentennial.

A black-and-white American flag with a thin blue line across its center appeared among the Confederate flags toted by the white supremacists and neo-Nazis during the violent protests.

The phrase has inspired several flag adaptations in honor of police forces, including one of the British Union Jack and one of the American flag. The American version is the typical “Stars and Stripes ...

Along with the cash donation and Thin Blue Line Flag, Rockwood gifted the police department an American flag. The Greenfield Police Department wrote in the Facebook post that both flags symbolize ...

Like other mash-ups of identity flags with the American flag, the thin blue line flag is a rallying point for a marginalized identity, a way to lay claim to the American birthright, a demand for ...

Fire Department brass recently ordered an East Village ladder company to remove its “red line” American flag honoring six fallen brothers killed on 9/11 – after a resident complained it was ...

Commanding officers at the 100 th, 102 nd, 104 th, 106 th and 112 th precincts in Queens have accepted blue-line flags honoring cops killed or injured in the line of duty, according to Ariola, who ...

The idea of a “thin blue line” can be traced all the way back to an 1854 British battle formation, a “thin red line” used during the Crimean War and then popularized in art, poetry and song.