Portland theater pulls ‘Kindergarten Cop’ after ‘over-policing’ complaints
The Willamette Week reported.The move comes after author Lois Leveen called on the theater to cancel the screening, saying there’s “nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools.”“Yes, KINDERGARTEN COP is only a movie. So are BIRTH OF A NATION and GONE WITH THE WIND, but we recognize films like those are not ‘good family fun,’” she wrote on Twitter on Saturday.“They are relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions.