With the Trump administration determined to strike a “death blow” to affirmative action and diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh demanded this week that women be barred from serving as police officers, calling the idea of female cops “absurd” and “DEI in action.”
Walsh — a far-right provocateur who has risen to prominence on the back of his transphobic and misogynistic punditry — used the example of an accidental shooting to make the case on Thursday that women have no business serving in law enforcement. Following a Florida traffic stop last month that saw a driver getting inadvertently shot when officer Mindy Cardwell removed the driver’s gun from his waistband, Cardwell was fired for incompetence after body cam footage was released this week.
