{"id":31365,"date":"2020-06-03T16:34:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T20:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=31365"},"modified":"2020-06-08T05:19:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T09:19:55","slug":"there-are-no-cops-in-lego-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/there-are-no-cops-in-lego-city\/","title":{"rendered":"There are no cops in Lego City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many companies, Lego released a statement supporting Black Lives Matter:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/legofcops1.jpg\" alt=\"We stand with the black community against racism and inequality.  There is much to do.  We will donate $4 million to organizations dedicated to supporting black children and educating all children about racial equality.\" width=\"450\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Unlike a lot of companies (other than maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benandjerrys\/status\/1267875868673794048\" target=\"twit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben & Jerry's<\/a>), they're not just stopping there.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Tuesday afternoon, Lego Shop at Home affiliates received an email from the company requesting the immediate removal of any links or marketing for dozens of sets that feature police, \"in light of recent events.\"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/legofcops2.jpg\" alt=\"In light of recent events, Lego has requested the below products be removed from sites and any marketing ASAP\" width=\"450\" height=\"515\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>It's not hard to see a theme: the sets are all ones that feature police, as well as the White House - in other words, the sources of the violence people are protesting against.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>10900 Police Bike<br \/>\n10902 Police Station<br \/>\n21054 The White House<br \/>\n40372 Police MP Accessory Set<br \/>\n42091 Police Pursuit<br \/>\n60139 Mobile Command Center<br \/>\n60206 Sky Police Jet Patrol<br \/>\n60207 Sky Police Drone Chase<br \/>\n60208 Sky Police Parachute Arrest<br \/>\n60210 Sky Police Air Base<br \/>\n60212 Barbecue Burn Out<br \/>\n60213 Dock Side Fire<br \/>\n60214 Burger Bar Fire Rescue<br \/>\n60215 Fire Station<br \/>\n60217 Fire Plane<br \/>\n60216 Downtown Fire Brigade<br \/>\n60231 Fire Chief Response Truck<br \/>\n60233 Donut Shop Opening<br \/>\n60239 Police Patrol Car<br \/>\n60241 Police Dog Unit<br \/>\n60242 Police Highway Arrest<br \/>\n60243 Police Helicopter Chase<br \/>\n60244 Police Helicopter Transport<br \/>\n60245 Police Monster Truck Heist<br \/>\n60246 Police Station<br \/>\n60247 Forest Fire<br \/>\n60248 Fire Helicopter Rescue<br \/>\n60270 Police Brick Box<br \/>\n853919 City Police Vest<br \/>\n854018 Police Handcuffs & Badge<br \/>\n854005 Duke DeTain Key Chain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The inclusion of fire fighter sets is odd, as they're still properly doing their jobs, not injuring or killing people.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Update: Lego later clarified that they were only asking affiliates to remove links during Black Out Tuesday out of respect, not pulling the sets entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many companies, Lego released a statement supporting Black Lives Matter: Unlike a lot of companies (other than maybe Ben &#038; Jerry's), they're not just stopping there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-lego","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31369,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365\/revisions\/31369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}