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The board of trustees for the village of Mount Prospect voted 4-3 Tuesday night to eliminate the patch on the uniforms of village police officers that features the controversial “thin blue line” flag.
With a tally that reflected the division within the community, the Mount Prospect village board decided narrowly Tuesday night to order the police department patch with a thin blue line eliminated from officers uniforms.