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A California community college professor has slammed one of her 19-year-old students after he called police 'heroes'.

The student, Braden Ellis, got into the heated exchange with his communications professor at Cypress College after he gave a Zoom presentation about 'cancel culture' in the United States.

Footage of their exchange, which he says came immediately after his presentation, shows the professor repeatedly interrupting Ellis after he defended police.


The female professor, who wasn't immediately identified but is an adjunct professor, kept insisting that police were bad.

At one point, she suggested police were created in the South to track down runaway slaves and that it was a form of systemic racism.

'I think cops are heroes,' Ellis, who is a business major, said at the beginning of the exchange.

Crackpot wrote: ↑

Thu May 06, 2021 8:22 pm

Sounds a bit like assholes all around, but the student is not positioned as the authority figure here.

At one point, she suggested police were created in the South to track down runaway slaves

Modern policing began to emerge in the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century, influenced by the British model of policing established in 1829. The first organized publicly-funded professional full-time police services were established in Boston in 1838, New York in 1844, and Philadelphia in 1854. Early on, police were not respected by the community, as corruption was rampant.

Slave patrols in the south were abolished upon the abolition of slavery in the 1860s

Gob wrote: ↑

Sun May 09, 2021 9:15 am

Only if you take a VERY warped perspective on how and why policing was started over there.

Modern policing began to emerge in the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century, influenced by the British model of policing established in 1829. The first organized publicly-funded professional full-time police services were established in Boston in 1838, New York in 1844, and Philadelphia in 1854. Early on, police were not respected by the community, as corruption was rampant.

Slave patrols in the south were abolished upon the abolition of slavery in the 1860s

First formed in 1704 in South Carolina, patrols lasted over 150 years, only technically ending with the abolition of slavery during the Civil War. However, just because the patrols lost their lawful status did not mean that their influence died out in 1865. Hadden argues there are distinct parallels between the legal slave patrols before the war and extralegal terrorization tactics used by vigilante groups during Reconstruction, most notoriously, the Ku Klux Klan.

Bicycle Bill wrote: ↑

Sun May 09, 2021 10:33 pm

I believe there's a difference between a police force created to protect people and property, uphold the laws, and apprehend those who violate them — and a posse/vigilante group/lynch mob that assembles for one single, specific purpose.

-"BB"-

And yet police forces across the South acted as both.

Gob wrote: ↑

Mon May 10, 2021 6:33 am

And yet police forces across the South acted as both.

But what does that have to do with today's police, which was the subject under discussion?

Big RR wrote: ↑

Mon May 10, 2021 1:20 pm

I have to agree; if we use that argument, we would have to say any and all law enforcement is suspect because it was used to suppress the have nots on behalf of the haves--

Gob wrote: ↑

Mon May 10, 2021 6:33 am

And yet police forces across the South acted as both.

But what does that have to do with today's police, which was the subject under discussion?

MGMcAnick wrote: ↑

Sat May 08, 2021 8:43 pm

Not all police are bad, but certainly some of them are. At least one of them murdered George Floyd.