Activists Demonstrate Against Police Brutality (Photo : Getty Images)
At a rally to protest police brutality, movie director Quentin Tarantino called the cops "murderers." It earned him the ire of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA).
The group sought the boycott of his films by New Yorkers. They also hit him because he "makes a living glorifying crime and violence," which explains why he is a cop-hater, says PBA President Patrick Lynch on Sunday, reports the New York Daily News.
Tarantino, who megged "Pulp Fiction," spoke on Saturday at a demonstration in Washington Square Park where he was quoted as saying that as a human being with a conscience who believes there is an ongoing murder "then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I'm here to say I'm on the side of the murdered."
He stresses, "This is not being dealt with in anyway at all. That's why we are out here. If it was being dealt with, then these murdering cops would be in jail or at least be facing charges," quotes Hotair.
The rally, organized by RiseUpOctober, was staged four days after Tyrone Howard, who stole a bicycle, was charged with murder and robbery after he killed with a gunshot NYPD Officer Randolph Holder, who was chasing Howard.
But Lynch replied that police officers do not live "in one of his depraved big screen fantasies." He points out that policemen risk and sometimes sacrifice their lives to protect communities from real crimes. He called the director a purveyor of degeneracy and says Tarantino is not welcome to show his slanderous "Cop Fiction."
Hotair sides with the PBA as it found shameful that someone who made so many amazing movies would "fall into the trap of trying to transfer his fame into political activism on the wrong side of the debate."
