Classic Movie Kindergarten Cop Banned From Festival
‘Kindergarten Cop’ pulled from Portland theater after complaints it ‘romanticizes over-policing’
A Portland theater has canceled an upcoming screening of the Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy “Kindergarten Cop” after people complained the movie sympathizes with law enforcement.
The Northwest Film Center had planned to show the 1990 film shot in Astoria “for its importance in Oregon filmmaking history” as part of its summer drive-in series at Zidell Yards, but it was called off after Portland author Lois Leveen fired off a series of angry tweets saying the depiction of police in school perpetuates systemic racism, The Willamette Week first reported.
“There’s nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools, which feeds the ‘school-to-prison’ pipeline in which African American, Latinx, and other kids of color are criminalized rather than educated,” Ms. Leveen wrote.