00:00After a college student shared his sentiments on police officers and cancel culture,
00:04his woke professor became combative. The confrontation was caught on video,
00:08and her angry attack has left many wondering what's going on with our education system.
00:13Braden Ellis, a student at Cypress College in Southern California, delivered a presentation
00:18on cancel culture and how it is destructive and tearing our country apart during a remote
00:23communications class. Following his presentation, there was a 10-minute question and answer session.
00:30That's when things took an unexpected turn as a confrontation between Ellis and his professor
00:34ensued. During his presentation, Ellis discussed Paw Patrol, a children's cartoon about search and
00:40rescue dogs aimed at kids' ages 2-4. One of the canine characters is positively depicted as a
00:47police officer. That positive depiction caused the outraged mob to attempt to cancel the cartoon in
00:53June of 2020 in light of the anti-police sentiment stemming from the Black Lives Matter movement,
00:58the Daily Wire reported. Anti-police activists, professors, and journalists took to social
01:03media to decry Paw Patrol and explained why it was allegedly bad because it reinforced the idea
01:09that police are helpful. Ellis disagreed with the cancel culture, calling police officers heroes,
01:15a sentiment with which his teacher strongly disagreed, according to the Blaze. In fact, the woke professor
01:21decided to berate Ellis over his belief that the good majority of police officers are heroes during the
01:26allotted 10-minute question and answer session, which was supposed to be for students to respond
01:31to the presentation. Instead, the professor used the designated time to scold Ellis for his views,
01:36and it was all captured on video. So you brought up the police in your speech a few times.
01:41So, what is your main concern? The professor began. Failing to get Brad and Ellis' time to respond,
01:47she continued,
01:48The issue is systemic, because the whole reason we have police departments in the first place.
01:53Where does it stem from? What's our history? It stems from people in the South wanting to capture
01:58runaway slaves. However, an article on how the U.S. got its police force, published by Time,
02:04tells a slightly different story, claiming that historically, colonial America used an informal
02:09for-profit, privately-funded nightwatch system, mostly to look out for fellow colonists,
02:14engaging in prostitution or gambling. Eventually, this system proved inefficient,
02:19and publicly-funded police forces emerged, but not for the reason the woke professor suggests.
02:25The first publicly-funded, organized police force with officers on duty full-time was created in
02:30Boston in 1838. Boston was a large shipping commercial center, and businesses had been hiring
02:37people to protect their property and safeguard the transport of goods from the port of Boston to
02:42other places, says Gary Potter, a crime historian at Eastern Kentucky University.
02:48These merchants came up with a way to save money by transferring to the cost of maintaining a police
02:52force to citizens by arguing that it was for the collective good. While the article recognizes
02:58that the preservation of the slavery system was a driving force for the development of some police
03:03forces in the South, where slave patrols were tasked with chasing down runaways and preventing
03:08slave revolts, it simply is not the whole reason our modern police departments exist, as the woke
03:14professor alleged. After the professor's remark, another classmate chimed in to suggest that maybe
03:19the police shouldn't be labeled as heroes, and maybe they don't belong on a kid's show.
03:24Ellis, of course, disagreed, saying, I think cops are heroes, and they have to have a difficult job.
03:30But, we have to? Before his professor quickly and flagrantly interrupted to ask,
03:34all of them. I'd say a good majority of them, Ellis responded. You have bad people in every
03:40business and every. He continued before being once again, cut off in an attempt to alter the
03:45direction of the conversation by the professor, who alleged that a lot of police officers have
03:50committed atrocious crimes and have gotten away with it, and have never been convicted of any of
03:55it. However, Ellis was undeterred. This is not popular to say, but I do support our police,
04:01and we have bad people, and the people that do bad things should be brought to justice.
04:06I agree with that, Ellis explained. When his professor quickly suggested that police
04:11who have done bad things have not been held accountable, Ellis again countered, saying,
04:15well, I agree with you on that point of they should. But, his woke professor still wasn't happy.
04:21So, what is your bottom line point? You're saying police officers should be revered.
04:26Viewed as heroes? Do? They belong on TV shows for children, she asked, to which Ellis responded.
04:33I think they are heroes in a sense, because they come to your need and they come and help you.
04:38They have problems, just like every other business. But we should fix that. But,
04:42once again, however, he was cut off before he could finish.
04:45It's not a business, the professor snapped, interrupting Ellis again.
04:49I think that's the problem, is looking at it as a business.
04:52Because they're actually supposed to protect and serve the people, she said.
04:57Ellis argued that the police do protect us, and asked the professor who she would call if she was
05:01in trouble and facing someone armed with a knife or gun.
05:05I wouldn't call the police, the professor declared. I don't trust them.
05:09My life's in more danger in their presence, she continued.
05:13I wouldn't call anybody, she alleged. When pressed further and asked what she would do,
05:17if there was an intruder and whether or not she would have a firearm to defend herself,
05:21she snapped, no. Saying she would consider it, my time to go, before abruptly ending the discussion.
05:28Following the confrontation, Braden Ellis reportedly told the Daily Wire that he was
05:33shocked to hear her comments about police. But he stood firm in his beliefs, adding,
05:37we need to fight back against this liberal ideology, spreading in our colleges and save America.
05:43Indeed, it's more than a little disturbing that a college professor would tell young adults
05:47that it's better to die at the hands of a criminal than to call the police for help.
05:52Let's hope she never has to practice what she preaches, but have a strong feeling
05:56that she would be dialing 911 as fast as she can.
