Several police departments and unions across the country have been speaking out against Quentin Tarantino for comments he made about law enforcement officers during a rally in New York City. Well now add his father to the lists of those condemning what he said.
As we previously reported, the director attended a protest last week against police brutality and made remarks about members of the police force being “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.
That statement obviously did not sit well with police and the NYPD, Philadelphia union and Los Angeles union have all decided to boycott Tarantino’s new movie, The Hateful Eight. And, on Friday, the New Jersey union asked that its officers in the state do the same.
Also on Friday, Tony Tarantino, Quentin’s father, issued a statement on what his son said.
"I love my son and have great respect for him as an artist but he is dead wrong in calling police officers, particularly in New York City where I grew up, murderers," the statement released by the New York Police Patrolmen's Benevolent Association read. "He is a passionate man and that comes out in his art but sometimes he lets his passion blind him to the facts and to reality."
It should be noted that in a 2010 interview, the director said that he did not have a relationship with his father and never even met him.