Behind the Thin Blue Line flag: America s history of police violence
Police continue to operate under layers of legal impunity and institutional protections.
The ‘Thin Blue Line’ flag shows how far America has to go to heal from police violence.Chet Strange / Getty Images; MSNBC
April 22, 2021, 9:56 AM UTC
A little more than a week before the jury delivered its verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, and about 10 miles from the Hennepin County Government Center where Chauvin sat on trial, 20-year-old Daunte Wright was fatally shot by an officer during a traffic stop. That week, a “Thin Blue Line” flag was raised defiantly above the Brooklyn Center Police Department building in Minnesota.
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