Attempted reforms over racial profiling have led to yet another chapter in the long line of attempts to cleanse policing in the United States of its persistent afflictions an ongoing exercise in reform that never ends.
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Braden Ellis is a student studying business at a community college in southern California. Ellis gave a presentation for a required communications class in which he criticized cancel culture and argued that police should be seen as heroes. Specifically, he made a mention of the push to remove positive portrayals of police from television, including the animated puppy variety found in the children’s show Paw Patrol. And yes, people were seriously trying to cancel Paw Patrol last summer.
After the presentation, the adjunct professor who was running the communications class started an argument with Ellis, asking him what he was trying to say about police. The whole argument, which was took place on Zoom, was recorded and eventually made its way to Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire. Here’s the clip: