Director Quentin Tarantino attended a protest against police brutality this past weekend and now New York City's police union has issued a response.
According to The New York Post, the union is calling for a boycott of Tarantino's films after the director's statements at the rally.
“It’s no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too,” said Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.
Lynch went on to say that New York's police officers aren't living in one of Tarantino's "depraved big-screen fantasies," and that they're risking their lives every day to protect the community.
At the Washington Square Park rally on Saturday, Tarantino said that in many cases police officers are murderers.
“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,” he said.
Saturday's rally was held four days after the death of Randolph Holder, a 33-year-old police officer slain on Tuesday night in East Harlem. Tarantino acknowledged this timing as unfortunate.
Tarantino's newest film, The Hateful Eight, will be released on Dec. 25.