Police union calls for boycott of "anti-cop" filmmaker
Philadelphia police union leaders are calling for a boycott of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino's movies, a few days after the New York police union announced a similar boycott because Tarantino attended a rally against police brutality.
The FOP's board of directors met Tuesday and voted unanimously to boycott the screenwriter and director behind such popular but violent blockbusters as "Pulp Fiction," "Kill Bill," "Reservoir Dogs" and "Inglourious Basterds."
"Tarantino has shown through his actions that he is anti-police," the Philly union said in its statement. During a rally against police brutality Saturday in New York's Washington Square Park, according to the New York Post, Tarantino said: "When I see murders, I do not stand by ... I have to call the murderers the murderers." He added that cops are too often "murderers." The rally came less than a week after NYPD Officer Randolph Holder was killed in East Harlem.
NYC Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch and Los Angeles Police Protective League president Craig Lally earlier this week demanded a boycott.
Tarantino is no stranger to controversy: Critics have called him racially insensitive for his characters' frequent racial slurs and questioned the frequent, intense violence in his movies.