This is undeniable.
NY: Tarantino joins protest against police brutality
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How did we get to this point where people who never even attended a protest sit behind a computer and criticize people who do?
NYPD union called for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino films after director's anti-cop protest.
NYPD union called for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino films after director's anti-cop protest.
Black Tarantino fans would see that movie regardless. He's a great director who made some classic films.
This.
* did not expect this.
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More Police Unions Across the Country Call for Quentin Tarantino Boycott
At an October 24 rally in Manhattan's Washington Square Park, director Quentin Tarantino addressed a crowd of a few hundred people, decrying "police terror" and reading names of those killed by police officers across the country. Standing in front of a collage of enlarged photos depicting the faces of victims, Tarantino said, "This is not being dealt with in any way 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." The director also defended his sharp rhetoric: "I'm a human being with a conscience ... 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."
As Fox News and the New York Post turned on their outrage machines to emphasize, the rally occurred four days after a police officer was killed in East Harlem. Tarantino responded: "It’s like this: It’s unfortunate timing, but we’ve flown in all these families to go and tell their stories ... That cop that was killed, that’s a tragedy, too." The rally marked the final day of a three-day series of planned national rallies in a coordinated protest called RiseUpOctober, which began on October 22. Tarantino also spoke a another rally that day in Times Square.
Unsurprisingly, the police have not taken too kindly to Tarantino's words. The day after Tarantino's speech, Patrolman's Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch called the director a "purveyor of degeneracy" and called for a boycott of his movies. "It's no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too," Lynch said in a statement. "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." So, Lynch suggests, “New Yorkers need to send a message" by not seeing his movies.
Over the following week, more police unions across the country came out against Tarantino. Last Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Protective League released a statement supporting the boycott of the director's films, followed by the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police and the New Jersey State Police Patrolmen's Benevolent Association the following day. "It is hard not to see the anti-police rhetoric that has been stirred up in the nation over the past year," New Jersey PPBA Pat Colligan said in a statement. "We don’t know if this irresponsible speech led directly to the recent murder of officers around the nation, but Mr. Tarantino should be mindful of the potential dangers that can result from the dangerous rhetoric once it is ingrained in the mind of a person who is willing to harm an officer."
On Thursday, the protest against Tarantino went nationwide, as the National Association of Police Organizations endorsed the boycott. NAPO is an umbrella organization that advocates for law-enforcement efforts; it represents more than 1,000 police organizations around the country. On its website, the organization urged its 241,000 members to "stop working special assignments or off-duty jobs, such as providing security, traffic control or technical advice for any of Tarantino's projects."
http://www.vulture.com/2015/11/quentin-tarantino-police-boycott.html
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?p=15908348#post15908348
More Police Unions Across the Country Call for Quentin Tarantino Boycott
At an October 24 rally in Manhattan's Washington Square Park, director Quentin Tarantino addressed a crowd of a few hundred people, decrying "police terror" and reading names of those killed by police officers across the country. Standing in front of a collage of enlarged photos depicting the faces of victims, Tarantino said, "This is not being dealt with in any way 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." The director also defended his sharp rhetoric: "I'm a human being with a conscience ... 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."
As Fox News and the New York Post turned on their outrage machines to emphasize, the rally occurred four days after a police officer was killed in East Harlem. Tarantino responded: "It’s like this: It’s unfortunate timing, but we’ve flown in all these families to go and tell their stories ... That cop that was killed, that’s a tragedy, too." The rally marked the final day of a three-day series of planned national rallies in a coordinated protest called RiseUpOctober, which began on October 22. Tarantino also spoke a another rally that day in Times Square.
Unsurprisingly, the police have not taken too kindly to Tarantino's words. The day after Tarantino's speech, Patrolman's Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch called the director a "purveyor of degeneracy" and called for a boycott of his movies. "It's no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too," Lynch said in a statement. "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." So, Lynch suggests, “New Yorkers need to send a message" by not seeing his movies.
Over the following week, more police unions across the country came out against Tarantino. Last Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Protective League released a statement supporting the boycott of the director's films, followed by the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police and the New Jersey State Police Patrolmen's Benevolent Association the following day. "It is hard not to see the anti-police rhetoric that has been stirred up in the nation over the past year," New Jersey PPBA Pat Colligan said in a statement. "We don’t know if this irresponsible speech led directly to the recent murder of officers around the nation, but Mr. Tarantino should be mindful of the potential dangers that can result from the dangerous rhetoric once it is ingrained in the mind of a person who is willing to harm an officer."
On Thursday, the protest against Tarantino went nationwide, as the National Association of Police Organizations endorsed the boycott. NAPO is an umbrella organization that advocates for law-enforcement efforts; it represents more than 1,000 police organizations around the country. On its website, the organization urged its 241,000 members to "stop working special assignments or off-duty jobs, such as providing security, traffic control or technical advice for any of Tarantino's projects."
http://www.vulture.com/2015/11/quentin-tarantino-police-boycott.html
Damn right
Dude takes his time to go and support the protest yet all these keyboard activists are talking shit about him
They are amazing, I just read and laugh man, read and laugh....
Is it wrong to want to see an anti cop movie?
This isn't just about his fans who will show up anyway this is about the casual black movie goer.
Most black audiences don't run out to see Tarantino's movies like that Django Unchained was an exception. He wants to bring that audience back for this film.
But I Like the fact he is pissing off the police unions.
Quentin Tarantino Tells Bill Maher He’s Not a Cop-Hater, But the Police Should Do More to Weed Out Bad Cops
Quentin Tarantino Wants to Talk About ‘Abuse of Power’; Police Don’t
Garrulous auteur Quentin Tarantino continues to piss off the police by saying rational things. After participating in a rally to address police brutality in October, Tarantino earned the ire of police unions; the Fraternal Order of Police, which sounds like something out of a Max Fischer play, subsequently made a vague threat that "something could happen" to the voluble filmmaker, which is an uncomfortably ominous statement by a police organization to make. But the filmmaker continues to speak about police brutality and abuse of power: while promoting his upcoming western The Hateful Eight on Saturday, Tarantino said, "You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offensive that they've ever done, thus creating mistrust in the community." He went on, "You should be able to talk about abuses of power. You should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases as far as I'm concerned, is outright murder and outright loss of justice, without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me." The Hateful Eight, which deals with murder and outright loss of justice pretty graphically, comes out on Christmas.
Garrulous auteur Quentin Tarantino continues to piss off the police by saying rational things. After participating in a rally to address police brutality in October, Tarantino earned the ire of police unions; the Fraternal Order of Police, which sounds like something out of a Max Fischer play, subsequently made a vague threat that "something could happen" to the voluble filmmaker, which is an uncomfortably ominous statement by a police organization to make. But the filmmaker continues to speak about police brutality and abuse of power: while promoting his upcoming western The Hateful Eight on Saturday, Tarantino said, "You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offensive that they've ever done, thus creating mistrust in the community." He went on, "You should be able to talk about abuses of power. You should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases as far as I'm concerned, is outright murder and outright loss of justice, without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me." The Hateful Eight, which deals with murder and outright loss of justice pretty graphically, comes out on Christmas.
Police Unions, Realizing They’ve Been Acting Like Comic-Book Villains, Cease Boycott of Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
Quentin Tarantino, who drew the ire of police unions for participating in anti-brutality protests (ugh, what a monster), doesn't have to worry about massive police protests anymore, if he was ever worried in the first place. As per the Wrap, New York Patrolman’s Benevolent Association spokesperson Albert O’Leary said, "We’re not giving this guy anymore free publicity. We have nothing to say about it.” After makingominous threats that made them sound uncomfortably akin to comic-book villains, maybe the police unions realized they had better things to do then stage boycotts of a movie about racist cowboys.
Quentin Tarantino, who drew the ire of police unions for participating in anti-brutality protests (ugh, what a monster), doesn't have to worry about massive police protests anymore, if he was ever worried in the first place. As per the Wrap, New York Patrolman’s Benevolent Association spokesperson Albert O’Leary said, "We’re not giving this guy anymore free publicity. We have nothing to say about it.” After makingominous threats that made them sound uncomfortably akin to comic-book villains, maybe the police unions realized they had better things to do then stage boycotts of a movie about racist cowboys.
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