Ottawa police union defends using ‘thin blue line’ again after Edmonton shooting – Ottawa | 24CA News

The Ottawa Police Association is defending its use of the controversial “thin blue line” image for the second time in simply over per week.

The police affiliation tweeted the image Thursday on a picture of the Edmonton police brand after two officers have been killed within the Alberta capital.

A metropolis councillor had been amongst these to sentence using the image on hockey jerseys cops wore throughout a charity sport final weekend.

The “thin blue line” has been adopted lately by far proper teams, main police forces throughout the nation — together with Ottawa’s — to ban members from sporting the image whereas on obligation.

The affiliation’s president Matthew Cox mentioned in a press release immediately that the image is supposed to honour fallen officers, and that the affiliation is “angry and disappointed” on the “alarming and inaccurate description” of what it means.

In Canada, the image typically seems like a blue line slicing horizontally throughout a black-and-white model of the Canadian flag.