Quentin Tarantino Says He’s Not A Cop Hater, Criticizes “Blue Wall”

Specifically, he expressed the opinions that the hijackers may have been despicable human beings, but they were not, as so many people were calling them at the time, “cowards”.

The stand-off between the Hollywood director and the Fraternal Order of Police was sparked by Tarantino marching at an anti-cop rally and branding officers “murderers”. “And what’s interesting is that now all of a sudden, I’m looking in my rearview mirror again in a way that I haven’t in 20 years”. What’s really sad about it is that we actually do need to talk to the cops about this.

I mean this is a – it’s a hydra, it’s a snake with many heads, but I actually think the biggest head that needs to be chopped off first is this blue wall idea, the fact that they would protect their own as opposed to put themselves at the betterment of citizenry.

Tarantino has said he’s being “demonized” by police.

Those comments were slammed by police unions around the country, who have pushed for a boycott of Tarantino’s next film, The Hateful Eight.

He told the host he will continue talking about the issue of police brutality in the US, and said he wants the law enforcement institutions not to close ranks on what he calls “bad cops”. “I think it’s inside of the institution itself” while discussing problems with policing on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time”.

Quentin added, “I actually don’t think it is an issue of individuals, good cops verses bad cops. I’m obviously talking about specific cases, where it is murder, as far as I’m concerned”.

New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association boss Pat Lynch called Tarantino a ‘cop-hater’.

The Weinstein Co., which is releasing “The Hateful Eight”, has not made any statements about the events surrounding Tarantino but the director said that he has their support and has not been told to apologize so as not to hurt the movie’s potential at the box office.

In late October he joined a communist march against police brutality through New York. “And I have to call the murdered the murdered and I have to call the murderers the murderers”.

He said: ‘This is not being dealt with in anyway at all.

“Back then I was in my 20s and broke, I was a little scared of the cops”, he confessed.

After police across the country had announced their plans to boycott his films, Tarantino refused to be bullied and remained steadfast in his decision to call the police who murdered people “murderers”.