Police Union calls for Tarantino movie boycott after cop 'murderers' rally
The New York police union is calling for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino's films following the director's involvement in an anti-cop rally that took place on Saturday in Washington Square Park, the New York Post reports.
"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," Tarantino told a crowd of police brutality protestors at the rally.
He continued, "I'm a human being with a conscience. 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."
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In a statement Sunday, Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, called Tarantino a "purveyor of degeneracy" who "has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous 'Cop Fiction.' "
"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," Lynch said, adding, "It's time for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino's films."
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