People pointed out the symbolism of the blue line of paint — but police said the paint is gray.
A photo posted to Twitter on Saturday showed a group of people painting over the stenciled words and questioned the use of a blue line of paint to do the job."The thin blue line" has for decades been a metaphor for police work, and it's frequently included in pro-police imagery.
But according to the Florissant Police Department's Officer Steve Michael, the paint is not blue, but gray. "It was painted over because it is illegal to paint the roadway," he said in an email to BuzzFeed News."It has absolutely nothing to do with the message.""If we allow all groups to paint a message anywhere then we would have all kinds of different groups doing it," he said."We simply cannot allow any group to paint anything on roadways."
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