Quentin Tarantino Defends Controversial Comments: “I’m Not A Cop Hater”

Ever since Tarantino referred to police officers as “murderers”, unions across the country have joined forces to boycott his films, with major police organizations in NY, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and more US cities all contributing to the movement.

“Something is in the works, but the element of surprise is the most important element”, the organisation told The Hollywood Reporter rather menacingly.

Susan Watts/New York Daily News Quentin Tarantino drew the ire of law enforcement groups in October after he declared at a protest in Washington Square Park that people should “rise up” against police brutality.

Police unions across the country called for a boycott of Tarantino films due to the director insisting, “When I see murders, I do not stand by. That doesn’t mean that cops are going to respond because I actually have a whole lot of fans that are police officers”.

Tarantino says he feels he’s being demonized and police groups are using what he said to avoid the real issue. Throughout an appearance at a NYC rally organized by RiseUpOctober, the “Django Unchained” filmmaker stated, “I’m a human being with a conscience”. “I’m not being intimidated”, Tarantino told the newspaper.

As for whether the threats of boycott are rattling the distributor of “The Hateful Eight”, the Weinstein Co., Tarantino said it’s probably “a pain in the butt” for the company but concluded, “They stand behind me”.

Appearing on MSBNC on Wednesday, Tarantino said that police, by feuding with him, are obscuring ‘the fact that the citizenry has lost trust in (police)’. “He makes his living as a master craftsman of scene and setting, for him to claim now that he wasn’t perfectly aware that his message was precisely “cops are murderers” is ludicrous”, said Johnson. That’s not what I said… But that’s the way they attack me, is calling me a cop hater. “We want them to stop being statistics and start being people who were once living and breathing and are now dead”. I’m not taking back what I said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton publicly condemned Tarantino’s comments.