Shortly after the Times story was published, conservative figures such as U.S.
“Paw Patrol” seems harmless enough, and that’s the point: The movement rests on understanding that cops do plenty of harm. The effort to publicize police brutality also means banishing the good-cop archetype, which reigns on both television and in viral videos of the protests themselves. Even big-hearted cartoon police dogs - or maybe especially big-hearted cartoon police dogs - are on notice. As the protests against racist police violence enter their third week, the charges are mounting against fictional cops, too. “Defund the paw patrol.” “All dogs go to heaven, except the class traitors in the Paw Patrol.” In the world of “Paw Patrol,” Chase is drawn to be a very good boy who barks stuff like “Chase is on the case!” and “All in a police pup’s day!” as he rescues kittens in his tricked-out S.U.V.īut last week, when the show’s official Twitter account put out a bland call for “Black voices to be heard,” commenters came after Chase. The team includes Marshall, a firefighting Dalmatian Rubble, a bulldog construction worker and Chase, a German shepherd who is also a cop. It is basically a pretense for placing household pets in a variety of cool trucks. “Paw Patrol” is a children’s cartoon about a squad of canine helpers.