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It’s a hate flag, no less than the Confederate or Nazi flags, but they’re allowed too — in your window at home, or on the bumper of your personal car.

This, though, is vile —

… Tensions began when the Springfield Township Police Department incorporated the “thin blue line” flag into its official logo in 2021. …

  • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    1 year ago

    You know we probably should have all see this coming when we told cops that they literally didn’t need to serve communities and that their job was not to protect it even enforce laws equally but to make money.

    All cops are now just 9-5ers with the right to use guns against people they dislike dealing with. Like a gas station employee with the right to kill.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      honestly since we’re just handing out licenses to kill we should give them to wait staff at restaurants and retail employees. Not the managers just the employees.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Like a gas station employee with the right to kill.

      That would be fun.