Print An adjunct professor at Cypress College has been placed on leave after challenging a student who praised the police as heroes in a recorded Zoom class that since has gone viral. Braden Ellis, 19, was in the process of telling his intro-level communications class that “cops are heroes, and they ... have a difficult job,” when his professor interrupts to ask: “All of them?” “A good majority of them,” Ellis replies. He then tries to say there are some bad actors before the professor — who has not been identified — cuts in again. “A lot of police officers have committed atrocious crimes and have gotten away with it, and have never been convicted of any of it,” she says, adding, “and I say this as a person who has family members who are police officers.”