The professor is from Cypress College in Southern California. Currently on leave.

Dialogue from Zoom call transcribed best as I could because at many times they were speaking over each other.

Professor: You brought up the Police in your speech a few times. What is your main concern? The issue is systemic because the whole reason we have Police departments in the first place, where did it stem from? What is their history? It stems from people in the South wanting to capture runaway slaves.
Jeremy: Maybe they shouldn’t be heroes, maybe they don’t belong on a kids show?
Branden: I disagree with Jeremy: I think Cops are heroes and happen to have a difficult job.
Professor: All of them?
Branden: I’d say a good majority of them. You have bad people in every business
Professor: a lot of police officers have committed atrocious crimes and gotten away with it and have never been convicted of any of it. And I think for the person who has family members who are Police officers
Branden: Yes, I understand. This is what I believe. This is my opinion. This is not popular to say. I do support our Police and we have bad people and those who do bad things should be brought to justice. I agree with that.
Professor: They haven’t!
Branden: I agree with you on that point, they should.
Professor: So what is your bottom line point? Your saying Police officers should be revered, view as heroes?
Branden: I think they are heroes, in a sense, because they come to your need and they come and help you, and they have problems like every other business. We should fix that.
Professor: It’s not a business. That’s a problem looking at it as a business. They’re actually here to protect and to serve the people, not help them.
Branden: Who do we call when we’re in trouble and someone has a knife or a gun
Professor, I wouldn’t call the Police.
Branden: Why wouldn’t you call the Police?
Professor, I don’t trust them. My life’s in more danger in their presence.
Branden: Professor who would you call?
Professor, I wouldn’t call anybody.
Branden: If someone intrudes into your house would you have a gun on you? Who would you call?
Professor: No,
Professor: Time to go. I’m not going to reach out to the Police.
Jeremy: If someone comes at you with a gun it’s to late for the police to do anything about it.
Branden: I know it’s not popular for me to say that to you guys and people in here but that’s what I believe and thanks for listening to my point.
Jeremy: I’m glad you did say that even though I do disagree with it. It’s important.
Branden: We should fight for the right for people to say things we don’t even like.
Jeremy: I may not agree with what you say but I will fight for your right to say, within some extent!
Branden: Amen, brother.

COMMENTS

The most infuriating the Professor said is where cops began, It stems from people in the South wanting to capture runaway slaves. How ignorant is that. Police have existed in many forms in many societies for thousands of years. Making it only a racial issue is disgusting. She should be fired for her incompetence.

The only part which I am in agreement with the Professor is, she should not call the cops during times of perilous danger.

Jeremy the third participant in the dialogue said one important thing wrong. I learned this in elementary school in the 1960s. “I disagree with what you say but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.” Originally attributed to Voltaire. The other saying I learned just as important, “Sticks and Stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me.”
Now it ends, name’s will destroy me. That means people today instead of having backbone are infantile being afflicted by names. The hate crime laws infantilized an entire race of people while putting others on notice that free speech is dead. All derogatory names must be okay to say and people who may not like those names must know violence is a criminal act and punishable. It creates a better society because instead of people holding back what they think they will say it and others will know where they stand. It’s a huge benefit for all. In that people find a way to get along as each stands up for themselves and verbally fights back.

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