Image The contradictions contained within the thin blue line flag were illustrated ... usual four — looked like a “thin red streak topped with a line of steel.” The 93rd fired two volleys ...

the "Thin Blue Line" was originally red. In the book "Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions," co-authors Elizabeth Thornburg and James Clapp wrote that the original phrase ...

He had seen the image of the flag ... The idea of a “thin blue line” can be traced all the way back to a 1854 British battle formation, a “thin red line” used during the Crimean War ...

The origin of the thin blue line dates back to an 1854 battle during the Crimean War, in which a British infantry regiment, in red uniforms ... to promote a polished image of the Los Angeles ...