Can anyone explain what the Black and White American Flag with the blue strip means.

[progressive nobody]

Seeing the pro Trump Rallies I have seen a few of those flags and I am confused by it.

[onecaliberal]

1. Russia

[LonePirate]

2. Blue Lives Matter (police) flag

[The Magistrate]

3. It's A Signal To Fellow Pedophiles, Sir

Or so I have read on the inter-tubes....

(It's a 'yay cops!' bit of swill --- thin blue line)

[mzmolly]

11. LOL

[Bettie]

13. I've heard that too

people are saying.....if they can do it why can't we.

[live love laugh]

20. 😆😂

[Freddie]

4. I think the blue line is to "support police"

[pdxflyboy]

5. Blue Lives Matter?

[StrictlyRockers]

6. It means you're a bootlicker.

It means you enjoy licking boots for fun and pleasure.

[aidbo]

29. I feel like we need to come up with another term for 'bootlicker'.

Because I feel like we are smearing bootlicker fetishists (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_worship ) who don’t deserve it.

Fascism enablers? Authority worshipers? I don’t know. Maybe I’m worrying about it more than I need to.

[StrictlyRockers]

32. I have no problem with boot fetishists!

Good looking out. I'm not trying to fetish shame anyone!

[Zoonart]

7. That's the "Blue Line" flag. As in the police...

"thin blue line".

[ChazII]

8. I don't know for sure but there is one

in my neighborhood. I thought it was for support of police.

[LakeArenal]

33. It's more against BLM. The new confederate flag.

[ChazII]

37. Yikes! The new confederate flag?? The family that moved in

a few years ago is new to this neighborhood. Most folks were the original owners who then sold or left the house to one of their children. Thank you for letting me know that this is a new confederate flag.

[GReedDiamond]

9. It's a pro-cop flag...

...the blue stripe represents how the fuzz are a "thin blue line" between order and chaos, or some such bullshit.

[Blue_true]

10. Police support flag that is popular among right wingers.

The white stands got good and the black bad. The blue line is supposedly the police that protect the good from the bad. The sheer imagery is full of racist connotations.

[exboyfil]

12. It is a violation of the US Flag Code

in my opinion. No organization has the right to coop the US Flag. They can do it because of the 1st Amendment, but people should be smart enough to call them on the behavior. It has no business being displayed in public buildings.

[LakeArenal]

34. Agree.

[A HERETIC I AM]

35. I have seen it on some cop cars

I’ve seen it as a small sticker on cop cars in various jurisdictions in Florida.

Of course it’s bullshit.

There is no such thing as a “Blue Life” as no one is born a fucking cop.

More bullshit pushback from the oh-so-put-upon white authoritarians who just can’t stand it when their fragile world is sent a teetering

[Wounded Bear]

14. It's the anti-BLM "Blue Lives Matter" flag...

brought out to "support" police and deflect from Black Lives Matter.

It's an attempted co-opt of the BLM movement.

[progressive nobody]

15. Thank you for the explanation.

[Ohiogal]

16. They fly that flag

In front of the police station in my township!

[Miigwech]

17. Come near us and we will make you black and blue

but ' magawhite, you're al'right' ... 'Black, dead by daylight'

[SergeStorms]

18. It means you support fascism.

nt.

[Buckeyeblue]

23. And racism...

[PJMcK]

19. Only one thing to know

It is not the flag of the United States of America

Period.

[roamer65]

21. It's a pro pig flag.

Sorry to offend all self respecting swine.

ACAB.

[aidbo]

30. Lol

[roamer65]

31. OMG.

I just spit up Diet Pepsi was drinking.

[kacekwl]

22. Blue lives Matter.

Or we support the blue.

[Ferrets are Cool]

24. It means you support cops. Even the murderers and racist if they wear blue.

[tenderfoot]

25. the blue line helps hide the swastika

[Mariana]

26. It's a desecration of the American Flag supposedly to support police officers. nt.

[Lars39]

27. That thin blue line shit is a rip-off of "a thin red line"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Red_Line_(1998_film)

The novel's title alludes to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he calls British foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes",[3] referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Balaclava

Basically, the police view their fellow citizens as the enemy.

[Aristus]

28. It means "Cops Are Infallible Demigods Who Have The Right To Shoot Any Black People

They Want To And If You Disagree, You're Un-American".

They'll tell you something different, but that's what it means.

[Alex4Martinez]

36. It's very popular as a replacement for the Confederate flag.

It's literally a FUCK BLM flag and I have seen two neighbors who formerly had confederate sticker or other crap now sport this flag on their garage and sticker on their window or bumber.