Quentin Tarantino fight with police grows

Quentin Tarantino has found himself running majorly afoul of police across the nation, following his appearance at a rally in New York City against "police terror" in wake of dramatic increase in fatal police shootings, reports The New York Post. "And when I see murder I can not stand by and I have to call the murdered the murdered and I have to call the murderers the murderers".

In addition to echoing police unions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Houston, the Virginia-based organization is asking officers to stop working off-duty jobs - such as providing security, traffic control, or technical expertise - for any Tarantino projects.

"I love my son and have great respect for him as an artist but he is dead wrong in calling police officers", Tony Tarantino said.

Organizers of a rally against police brutality spoke up Thursday in support of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who has been condemned by the New York Police Department's commissioner and police associations over his remarks at the weekend event.

"I wish he would take a hard, dispassionate look at the facts before jumping to conclusions and making these kinds of hurtful mistakes that dishonor an honorable profession", Tony Tarantino said, adding that they had several family members who had served in the NYPD and LAPD.

Quentin Tarantino at a rally to protest against police brutality in New York on October 24.

Patrick Lynch, president of the New York police union and de facto leader of theanti-Tarantino movement, was pleased.

The director first joined the protests last Thursday, when he read the names of people killed by the police in recent years on a stage in Times Square.

Tarantino's comments came during a sensitive time for the NYPD, coming just days after a New York City police officer was killed while on duty.

Tony Tarantino, father of Quentin Tarantino, pictured in 2009. "This is not a movie, this is real life where police officers' lives are impacted by his words".

Meanwhile, the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association yesterday also announced a boycott of Tarantino's movies.

Tarantino hasn't commented on the boycotts. During his speech, Tarantino said he was speaking out because not enough is being done about the problem.

Quentin Tarantino's next film, The Hateful Eight, will be released worldwide from early January 2016. We need to send a loud and clear message that such hateful rhetoric against police officers is unacceptable.

Numerous calls to Tarantino's representative for comment were not returned.

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