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In a statement on 15 January 2021, Chief Roman said that extremists had "visibly co-opted the thin blue line flag". [76] In May 2021, the towns of Manchester, South Windsor, Middletown, and Willimantic, all in Connecticut, banned or removed Thin Blue Line flags from their towns. In South Windsor, the flags were removed after the chief of police ...
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The flag should never touch anything physically beneath it. [9] An urban myth claimed that if the flag touched the ground, it had to be destroyed under the Flag Code; however, it has been affirmed by the American Legion and state governments that this is not the case. [10] [11] The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery.
Aug. 30—Recently-obtained emails contradict a characterization provided to the Lebanon Democrat by Mt. Juliet Vice Mayor Ray Justice regarding a Blue Lives Matter flag on city property and his ...
Technically, flying the flag upside down is not desecration of Old Glory but, according to the U.S. Flag Code, a “signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.”
Just like the flag of East Germany and the flag of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany were both banned in the former West Germany (and are still banned in reunified Germany), it is illegal to display the flag of North Korea or the flag of the Workers' Party of Korea in South Korea. They are deemed unconstitutional symbols, although some ...
“The political sign in the form of a flag must be removed from your property,” the HOA told the Ohio homeowner. “The flag on your pole is not a United States flag. It is a political ...
Several campaigns against the blue code of silence or for making it more visible in the public eye have taken place in the United States. One of the first of these campaigns was the Knapp Commission in New York (officially known as the Commission to Investigate Alleged Police Corruption ) which was headed by Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1970.