'The Hateful Eight' director Quentin Tarantino has come under fire for comments allegedly calling cops "murderers" during a recent anti-police rally in New York City. Police forces are now calling to boycott his latest film as well as other projects in retaliation. Tarantino breaks silence and admits that he is not intimidated.
According to the Denver Post, several police groups including those in Colorado have joined the boycott against Tarantino's latest Western movie. This is in condemnation of the filmmaker's recent anti-police comments during a recent rally in Brooklyn against police brutality on October 24, 2015.
Tarantino reportedly told the Associated Press, "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."
His comments came four days after the murder of Randolph Holder of the New York City police force in Harlem. According to Yahoo! News, the NYPD, LAPD, Philadelphia PD, Houston PD and Chicago PD have moved to boycotting Tarantino. President of the Fraternal Order of Police whose 330,000 members have joined the boycott issued a statement saying, "In addition, we will advise our members not to accept assignments or perform off-duty work, such as providing security, traffic control or technical assistance to any project involving Mr. Tarantino."
Meanwhile, Tarantino told the Los Angeles Times that he was not intimidated since his words criticizing lack of police action to deter civilian killings were merely misinterpreted. He shot back, "Instead of dealing with the incidents of police brutality that those people were bringing up, instead of examining the problem of police brutality in this country, better they single me out." He added that it was obvious they meant to discredit and intimidate him as well as others who might be on his side.
'The Hateful Eight' is scheduled to be released on January 8, 2016 in the United States. It is written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Kurt Russell, Channing Tatum, Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zoe Bell, Tim Roth and Walton Goggins among others.
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