Two months ahead of his new movie, police unions across the country are rising up against Quentin Tarantino.
The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, a labor union representing police officers in Philadelphia, announced that they will join the boycott of Tarantino films after the director's statement that many police officers are murderers.
The group's president, John McNesby, said in a statement, "Mr. Tarantino has made a good living through his films, projecting into society at large violence and respect for criminals; he it turns out also hates cops."
The Philadelphia union is joining the NYPD, as the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association announced their boycott earlier this week.
They're not the only ones, as the Los Angeles Police Protective League also released a statement condemning Tarantino and joining the protest.
"We fully support constructive dialogue about how police interact with citizens," the LAPPL said in their statement. "But there is no place for inflammatory rhetoric that makes police officers even bigger targets than we already are."
Tarantino, director of films such as Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained and the upcoming The Hateful Eight, took part in a protest against police brutality in New York City over the weekend.
“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 said.