“That’s maybe why it came to my eyes,” he said.Īs Jacob built the company, a “Blue Lives Matter” movement was growing in the wake of news stories of multiple officers shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Brooklyn, New York and Dallas, Texas. Jacob said the flag was not a direct reaction to the first Black Lives Matter protests-an idea suggested by a previous origin story in Harper’s-but he allows he may have first seen the thin blue line image after those protests spurred the circulation of pro-police imagery online. Two sergeants carry the Thin Blue Line flag as they walk at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, in May 2019.
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