San Francisco bans "thin blue line" face masks because: racism

In an dumb article about a dumb situation over people that can find something dumb to complain about no matter whether it is even remotely important, the San Francisco police chief has banned the police force from wearing "thin blue line" facemasks for some reason or another.

If you don't know what the thin blue line actually is, it looks like this

Basically, it is a bit of a political statement meaning that the blue line is the police force and they are the small step between law and order, and chaos. I'm not a big fan of police and a lot of their policies but that isn't the point.

The people that are offended by this are claiming that the police, and therefore this flag that in support of the police, are racist and therefore this imagery should be banned especially when it is the police that are wearing it.

The article which was published by the Associated Press isn't actually what is terribly dumb here because for once they didn't inject it with whatever the author's particular bias about this situation might be. It merely presented facts and allows the readers to make their own judgement based on FACTS. Imagine that? Actual journalism... isn't it amazing?

What's dumb about this is the fact that the police force is simply complying with the PPE requirements of the police force when doing their jobs. The mask itself is up to interpretation about whether or not you like police, and if you don't like police you are likely just opposed to their presence outright and not so much what it is that they are wearing. There are those that claim that the "thin blue line" was a racist response to Black Lives Matter meaning Blue Lives Matter, but the flag / image existed for decades before BLM was even a thing... so there's that.

This was just another attempt by the troublemakers in society making mountains of out molehills because at the end of the day, does it really matter what kind of face masks these officers are wearing?

For the anti-police people out there that made the complaints in the first place: Do you really expect the police to be anti-themselves? Tony Montoya, who is the police union president and the owner of a really awesome name gave a very neutral statement when goaded by the press to get angry about the band and simply stated "The blue line “represents law enforcement's separation of order and chaos.” He offered exactly zero other information, perhaps wisely realizing that any opinion that he may have offered in defense of the image would be used against him by the ravenous press.

This is a silly situation and one would assume that the people of San Francisco, perhaps now more than ever, would have slightly more important things to bitch about.