LAPD and NYPD call for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino
The Los Angeles Police Department's largest union has thrown its support behind the NYPD's call for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino's films after the "Pulp Fiction" director referred to some police officers as murderers during a rally in New York City over the weekend.
Los Angeles Police Protective League President Craig Lally said comments like Tarantino's encourage attacks on officers and said the union would support the call for a boycott of his films.
Tarantino flew from California to New York City to take part in a protest against police brutality on Saturday, and comments he made during the march quickly drew the ire of the New York Police Department's Patrolmen's Benevolent Assn.
"I'm a human being with a conscience," Tarantino said, according to the Associated Press. "And if you believe there's murder going on then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I'm here to say I'm on the side of the murdered."
The comments, which came just days after New York police Officer Randolph Holder was shot and killed while chasing a suspect in East Harlem, prompted furious reactions from NYPD union President Pat Lynch and Police Commissioner William Bratton.
“We fully support constructive dialogue about how police interact with citizens. But there is no place for inflammatory rhetoric that makes police officers even bigger targets than we already are," Lally said in a statement this week. "Film director Quentin Tarantino took irresponsibility to a new and completely unacceptable level this past weekend by referring to police as murderers during an anti-police march in New York."
Tarantino's films are notoriously violent, something critics were quick to harp on. While one of the director’s most iconic scenes involved the torture and eventual murder of a police officer in "Reservoir Dogs,” scores of gangsters, soldiers and other characters have found themselves decapitated or otherwise killed in gruesome fashion in a Tarantino film.
"The Hateful Eight," a western directed by Tarantino, is set to premiere on Christmas Day.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 17, 2020 1:28 AM
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Don't some NYPD officers moonlight as goons for the mafia?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 29, 2015 3:32 AM
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Like those psychopaths don't all have a poster of Samuel Jackson and John Travolta brandishing guns over their weight benches/steroid injecting stations.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 29, 2015 3:48 AM
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You just know they're all Tarantino fanboys, which makes his participation in the rally so meaningful.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 29, 2015 3:50 AM
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Hmmm. Out-of-control cops, or Cretin Tarantino? Out-of-control cops, or Cretin Tarantino . . .
Thanks, but I think I'll sit this one out.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 29, 2015 4:19 AM
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Will the Ferguson police boycott too?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 29, 2015 4:37 AM
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Quentin Tarantino's films are pretty much crap anyway.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 29, 2015 4:48 AM
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Can't stand this Aspies film which are really just extended MTV videos..love his soundtracks though..I'm gonna actually get behind him on this. Someone has to say it. It's the damned truth.
We need a celeb to get on this. He's stepped up.
Hope other big personalities and celebs match him.
Zsa Zsa isn't in any shape now but she really exposed police brutality back in the day
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 29, 2015 5:00 AM
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Can't stand this Aspies film which are really just extended MTV videos..love his soundtracks though..I'm gonna actually get behind him on this. Someone has to say it. It's the damned truth.
We need a celeb to get on this. He's stepped up.
Hope other big personalities and celebs match him.
Zsa Zsa isn't in any shape now but she really exposed police brutality back in the day
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 29, 2015 5:01 AM
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They're acting like somebody said all cops were murderers.
AGAIN.
You couldnt say "Fuck da police" before, but you can now!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 29, 2015 5:06 AM
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Is this Tarantino trying to get in Black people's good graces after that interview?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 29, 2015 5:11 AM
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It's perfectly acceptable to refer to those cops who have murdered someone as murderers. If other cops don't want to be tainted by those accusations they should stop covering for and the protecting murdering cops.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 29, 2015 5:15 AM
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oooops ---and protecting the murdering cops.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 29, 2015 5:17 AM
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if you listen carefully to the sound bite tarantino dtifts in and out of a black accent
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 29, 2015 5:54 AM
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The only hothouse flowers more touchy than cops are Christian hausfraus.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 29, 2015 6:22 AM
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Isn't this going a bit far ?
Public threats ? From the police ? I'm not an American, but, wow, from afar, it looks like a police state.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 5, 2015 10:40 PM
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Tarantino is moronic. That's been obvious for years, long before this cop stuff started. He should shut his yammering pie-hole. The more he talks, the dumber he appears.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 5, 2015 11:35 PM
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At least he didn't claim to be a "director and an actor".
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 5, 2015 11:45 PM
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Love Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill but I'm a diehard supporter of our boys in blue.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 17, 2020 12:08 AM
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Ask him how his buddy Harvey is doing?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 17, 2020 12:19 AM
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I'd kind of gone off Quentin in the last few years, but this kind of makes me like him again. Fuck the NYPD and the LAPD.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 17, 2020 12:27 AM
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This thread tastes a bit like boot leather.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 17, 2020 12:28 AM
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[quote] "I'm a human being with a conscience," Tarantino said
No, and no.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 17, 2020 1:20 AM
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Does this mean QT is going to stop writing the n-word 100+ times into each of his two-hour screenplays?
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 17, 2020 1:27 AM
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The 2015 thread troll strikes again.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 17, 2020 1:28 AM
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