The city council and mayor approved the designs, funded by local taxpayers and part of a statewide effort to legally safeguard "Blue Lives Matter," a pro-police movement, including a bill (which passed the House earlier this month) that would make attacking police officers a hate crime. In 2017, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader, the Catlettsburg Police Department, added the Punisher skull, complete with Blue Lives Matter slogan and flag decal, to eight of its vehicles. The Punisher's logo became a symbol of 'Blue Lives Matter' picking up on the iconography of American Sniper, the 2015 film based on Navy SEAL veteran Chris Kyle's life. If an officer of the law, representing the justice system puts a criminal's symbol on his police car, or shares challenge coins honoring a criminal he or she is making a very ill-advised statement about their understanding of the law." My point of view is, the Punisher is an anti-hero, someone we might root for while remembering he's also an outlaw and criminal. In a way, it's as offensive as putting a Confederate flag on a government building. Police should not be embracing a criminal as their symbol. Whether you think the Punisher is justified or not, whether you admire his code of ethics, he is an outlaw. "The vigilante anti-hero is fundamentally a critique of the justice system, an example of social failure, so when cops put Punisher skulls on their cars or members of the military wear Punisher skull patches, they're basically sides with an enemy of the system. Creator of the Punisher, Gerry Conway, has been known to despair about this,
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