“A few weeks ago we saw that the PAW Patrol, a police cartoon show, was canceled,” McEnany said, noting that President Donald Trump is “appalled at canceling culture and canceling culture specifically in regards to police. “
Later, he added, “The ‘Cops’ program was canceled, ‘Live PD’ was canceled. Lego stopped sales of its Lego City police station. It is really unfortunate.”
“Cancel culture” and “cancellation” are vague terms used in different ways by different people, but McEnany listed the PAW Patrol along with things that were literally canceled, so it appears that it was literally canceled as well.
TV shows
As protests erupted across the country after George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African-Americans who died at the hands of the police, they fueled debate about the future of police shows, based on decades of television crime. they may have biased public perceptions of the police.
After 30 years on the air, the show “Cops” was canceled. Later that week, so was the reality series “Live PD”. After canceling “Live PD,” A&E said in a statement to CNN that “going forward, we will determine if there is a clear path to tell the stories of both the community and the police officers whose role it is to serve them.”
Following these cancellations, a New York Times critic stated: “It was only a matter of time before the ‘PAW Patrol’ protests came.” The animated children’s show includes Chase, a dog who is also a police officer. . After a tweet from the show’s account announced that they would temporarily silence their content “to give black voices a voice,” commentators called for Chase to be fired and abolished. In case the status of the show was unclear, a Nickelodeon spokesperson told CNN on Friday that the Dog Patrol has not been canceled.
LEGO
The LEGO Police Station that McEnany specifically referenced is still available for sale on the LEGO website as of Friday afternoon, along with at least three other items in the LEGO City Police Toy Set.
McEnany may have based his statement on an email sent on behalf of the LEGO Group to affiliated vendors in early June, requesting that certain police-related products, including the police station, be removed from the sites and the commercialization. The email was posted online by a trade publication called The Toy Book on June 2.
However, a spokesperson for the LEGO Group later clarified to The Toy Book that they only “requested that our affiliate partners refrain from posting LEGO promotional content as part of our decision to respect #BlackOutTuesday and pause the posting of content on our social media channels. in response to tragic events in the United States. We regret any misunderstandings and will ensure that we are more clear about our intentions in the future. “
Days after the email began to circulate, the claim also garnered significant attention on Twitter. Former Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale even tweeted on June 4 that LEGO was “erasing cops”, to which LEGO responded directly, saying the claim was inaccurate.
The company offered a similar response on Friday to McEnany’s claim, telling CNN: “We did not stop sales of any LEGO sets, and any other reports are false.”
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