BREAKING: COPS Canceled by Paramount In Response to BLM Protests

We have lost our collective minds, people!

Some people have legitimately lost their minds. Those people, calling for things like defunding the police, are causing me to lose my mind!

2020 is the year of overreaction. We overreacted to Trump’s Ukraine call. We overreacted to coronavirus. And we have overreacted to the actions of one terrible police officer, who will be brought to justice.

Here’s the latest. The long-running TV show, COPS, has been cancelled, apparently because even seeing police hurts people.

From Breitbart:

Cops — the long-running reality series following  police officers on high-speed chases, drug busts, and other dangerous missions —  has been cancelled after a more than 30-year run as anti-police sentiment continues to sweep through Hollywood following last month’s death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody.

The Paramount Network has decided not to bring Cops back after it put the show on hiatus last week in the midst of #BlackLivesMatter protests and growing demands to defund police departments around the country.

“Cops is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return,” a network spokesperson told multiple outlets on Tuesday.

The Viacom CBS-owned cable channel has publicly supported the #BlackLivesMatter movement, saying in a recent tweet that “these racist and brutal attacks must end.”

This is so foolish and wrong. Why are they lumping all cops into the same basket? It’s almost like calling all protesters rioters. We’ve all been told that would be very, very bad.

Paramount is not the only company running scared. A&E and Sony are both shelving their police-themed shows, at least temporarily.

Police-themed TV shows now face an uncertain future as demands to defund the police continue to gather steam. A&E has put its Live PD documentary series on indefinite hold. Sony’s L.A.’s Finest was scheduled to debut on Spectrum,  but has been postponed until later this year, according to Deadline.

We thought 2019 was bad. We had no idea how terrible things were going to get. The nation has gone off the rails.

Our only hope is that this insanity is awakening a sleeping giant and that a silent majority rises up in November.

Some folks have a sane, logical reaction to the COPS cancellation news. Some do not.

America loves to see a nigga go to jail…This show taught future Cops that BLACKS were abusable and abusing us is entertaining. https://t.co/XXWMp5mLcW

— Ice Cube (@icecube) June 10, 2020

That’s a funny perspective. I’ve always thought COPS highlighted the “white trash” of America.

‘Live PD’ is consistently one of the highest rated shows on cable. But now it may go away bc even watching a police show is somehow offensive to some. (Secret option #2: if you don’t like it, don’t watch.) https://t.co/CKmlcoZxnN

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 10, 2020