Oregon bans "Kindergarten Cop" for the glorification of police traumatizing children....wait...what?
· Aug 6, 2020 · NottheBee.com

A screening of the amazingly funny and timeless movie, "Kindergarten Cop," has been cancelled in Oregon after concerns were raised over the "current political climate" and that the movie depicts "cops traumatizing kids."

According to Fox News, backlash grew in recent days after Portland author Lois Leveen criticized the movie on Twitter:

"What's so funny about School-to-Prison pipeline? Kindergarten Cop-Out: Tell @nwfilmcenter there's nothing fun in cops traumatizing kids. National reckoning on overpolicing is a weird time to revive ‘Kindergarten Cop.' IRL, we are trying to end the school-to-prison pipeline," she tweeted.

"There's nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools, which feeds the 'school-to-prison' pipeline in which African American, Latinx and other kids of color are criminalized rather than educated. Five- and 6-year-olds are handcuffed and hauled off to jail routinely in this country. And this criminalizing of children increases dramatically when cops are assigned to work in schools."

Parody twitter account @TitaniaMcGrath is in favor of the ban, tweeting, "This Ban is long overdue" and that it was a "vehicle for transphobic hate speech".

Just wait until they find out about Robocop…

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