Last week, as protests against police violence and racial injustice were happening all over the world, both A&E and the Paramount Network wisely decided to pull two of TV’s most notable examples of so-called “copaganda” from their schedules, with A&E taking Live PD off the airwaves and Paramount doing the same to Cops. Live PD’s hiatus was originally limited to the weekend, with A&E saying in a statement that it was being done “out of respect for the families of George Floyd and others who have lost their lives”—with apparently no mention of how people like George Floyd “lost their lives”—but the network is reportedly still trying to decide when it will be the right time to resume airing the show (though it’s hard to imagine a time when people are ready to watch a TV show about real-life cops doing questionably real and questionably legal cop stuff again).
