The Tulsa Fire Department is removing blue stripes from fire trucks. The chief thinks the stripes may send the wrong message to some people.
"It hit me in my heart that this was the right thing to do for the City of Tulsa and for the citizens," Chief Ray Driskell said.
TFD added the stripe after the Dallas police shooting as a symbol of solidarity with law enforcement, but Driskell said he's following his heart and taking the stripes off. "Some people made a connection that, with Officer Shelby, the blue line meant that they supported her or that they back her or that they backed the decision from the jurors," he said.
But the chief said that is not why the fire department put the tape on their trucks.