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Student Senator Faces Impeachment For Defending Thin Blue Line Masks

Ashe Schow
Student Senator Faces Impeachment For Defending Thin Blue Line Masks
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A student government representative at the Rochester Institute of Technology is facing calls for his impeachment because he refused to join other student government members in claiming the Thin Blue Line is “overt racism.”

The Thin Blue Line refers to law enforcement, who have been denigrated across the United States for the past few years due to incidents involving the police-involved deaths of black people. Some of those killed were unarmed, others were attacking police or resisting arrest,  yet protests and riots broke out across the U.S. where violent mobs attacked innocent police officers in the name of racial justice.

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