Hateful Eight director, Quentin Tarantino, has come under fire by the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) for comments he made during a rally protesting police violence in New York City. Departments of several major cities (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia) have all called for boycotts to be levied against Tarantino. Accusing the director of irresponsible rhetoric, NAPO threw more than their fair share back, essentially drawing an us vs. them line.
During a rally, Tarantino did not mince words. To quote, "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. 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."
The director was participating in a protest that gathered in Manhattan's Greenwich Village to decry what they felt had been the recent unnecessary deaths of several black men across the US. NAPO objected that the rally happened only days after a police officer had been gunned down in a East Harlem, though Tarantino readily admitted that the police officer's murder was a tragedy and the timing unfortunate. From the same article, he had this to say, "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.
In an extraordinarily combative response, NAPO advocated a boycott of the basic duties they are paid to do. This via The Hollywood Reporter, "We ask officers to stop working special assignments or off-duty jobs, such as providing security, traffic control or technical advice for any of Tarantino's projects. We need to send a loud and clear message that such hateful rhetoric against police officers in unacceptable."
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