NEIL: CANCELING POLICE MOVIES,
NEIL: CANCELING POLICE MOVIES,
SHOWS, CARTOONS AND NOW IN THE
CASE OF FORTNITE, A POPULAR GAME
THAT FEATURES POLICE, POLICE
CARS.
JACKIE DeANGELIS HAS MORE ON
THAT.
WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?
JACKIE: GOOD AFTERNOON, NEIL.
THAT’S RIGHT.
EPIC GAMES IS A DEVELOPER OF
THAT VERY WILDLY POPULAR GAME
FORTNITE AND WHAT THE MAKER OF
THE GAME HAS DONE IS REMOVE ALL
POLICE CARS FROM THE VIDEO GAME.
THEY ARE SAYING BASICALLY THAT
THEY ARE ONE OF THE LATEST
COMPANIES TO TRY TO BE MORE
SENSITIVE TO ISSUES THAT PLAYERS
ARE DEALING WITH IN THE REAL
WORLD.
THEY’RE NOT TRYING TO MAKE A
POLITICAL STATEMENT HERE.
EPIC’S APPROACH IN THE GAMING
WORLD IS CONSIDERED A LITTLE BIT
MILDER BECAUSE SOME OF ITS
PIERCE HAVEPEERS
HAVE PULLED GAMES AS A RESULT OF
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
BUT IN THE CASE OF FORTNITE,
REMEMBER THAT THE POLICE CARS
ARE DECORATION.
THEY ACTUALLY CAN’T BE DRIVEN.
THEY’RE NOT A SIGNIFICANT PART
OF THE GAME, IF YOU WILL, AN
ESSENTIAL COMPONENT.
BUT HAVING SAID THAT, THIS IS
ALL COMING AS THERE HAVE BEEN
MANY CALLS TO DEFUND THE POLICE,
EVEN AS SOME OF THE NEW YORK
POLICE DEPARTMENT MEMBERS HERE
ARE CONSIDERING STRIKING FOR
JULY 4th AS SORT OF A
COUNTERPUNCH.
BUT THE BIG QUESTION HERE, IS
THE ANTI-POLICE MOVEMENT GOING
TOO FAR.
A WORLD WITHOUT POLICE IS BEING
CALLED UTOPIA FOR SOME BUT THERE
ARE A LOT OF FOLKS ACROSS THE
COUNTRY SAYING WE DON’T WANT TO
DEFUND THE POLICE.
WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT COULD
POTENTIALLY HAPPEN WITH RESPECT
TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
