Quentin Tarantino’s Father Slams Him Over Police Remarks

Law enforcement officers in Los Angeles and Philadelphia are joining New York’s finest in calling for a boycott of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s motion pictures, following remarks he’d made at an anti-police rally where he referred to police as “murderers”.

Tony Tarantino’s comments will be welcomed by a campaign that has seen police unions in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New Jersey echo the boycott move, but to Quentin Tarantino it is likely to be little more than an irritant.

In a statement released by the PBA, Tony Tarantino said, “I love my son and have great respect for him as an artist but he is dead wrong in calling police officers, particularly in New York City where I grew up, murderers”.

“Mr. Tarantino should be mindful of the potential dangers that can result from the unsafe rhetoric”, Colligan said in a statement. “That’s the thing. I never knew him”. I won’t say he was taken out of context, but what he understands and what we have to understand is that hes kind of a pawn.

The LAPD union agreed, saying it “fully supported” the NYPD’s boycott.

Quentin has not responded to the boycotts or calls for an apology nor has The Weinstein Company, which produced “The Hateful 8”, out in theaters on January 8, 2016.

“We ask officers to stop working special assignments or off-duty jobs, such as providing security, traffic control or technical advice for any of Tarantino’s projects”, the organization said in a statement.

According to Fox News, the timing for the rally was poorly planned, as it “came in the wake of the shooting death of 33-year-old Officer Randolph Holder”, who was shot to death while pursuing a bicycle thief.

There have also been four NYPD officers murdered in the past 10 months.

“Questioning everything we do threatens public safety by discouraging officers from putting themselves in positions where their legitimate actions could be falsely portrayed as thuggery”, PPL President Craig Lally said. The campaign amounts to a “mafia-style protection racket”, said Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, one of the protest’s organizers.

The airwaves have been dominated by suggestions that the police are the biggest threat facing young black males today. Treating all police officers like murderers, and assuming police officers are automatically in the wrong whenever a black assailant is killed are examples of sweeping generalizations, the same type that groups such as Black Lives Matter and RiseUpOctober claim to oppose. Police lives should matter too, and the anti-police rhetoric is placing a target on their backs.

Chicago Fraternal Order of Police president Dean Angelo tells The Hollywood Reporter, The Chicago police union “joins with others from coast to coast moving to boycott anything and everything, including his new release [The Hateful Eight]”.