Cops Boycott Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino

The union representing the Los Angeles Police Department’s 9,900 officers and sworn professionals has denounced filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s weekend remarks calling police “murderers.”

In a news release issued Tuesday, the union said, “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. 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.”

Author, activist and scholar Cornel West helped organize the #RiseUpOctober rally held Saturday in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park in New York City, according to The Wrap.

Held to call out police brutality and rally against it, Tarantino’s comments drew the immediate ire of the NYC Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, which represents the city’s police officers.

NYCPBA President Patrick J. Lynch said in a press release Saturday, “It’s no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too. The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls ‘murderers’ aren’t living in one of his depraved big screen fantasies — they’re risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem.”

Tarantino has been quoted as telling the crowd, “When I see murders, I do not stand by . . . I have to call a murder a murder, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.”

Both unions are calling for a boycott of Tarantino’s next movie release, The Hateful Eight, which arrives Christmas day, according to Rolling Stone.