“It’s time for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino’s films”, Lynch said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. He called the director a purveyor of degeneracy and says Tarantino is not welcome to show his slanderous “Cop Fiction”.
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Tarantino’s comments, and the larger protest, was held just four days after NYPD policeman Randolph Holder was killed. However, he stood by his ideals.
The “Rise Up October” rally drew around 300 protestors and director Quentin Tarantino was front and center, bashing the police as “murderers”.
Tarantino told the crowd of protesters Saturday in Washington Square Park: “When I see murders, I do not stand by …”
Quentin Tarantino lost a few fans over the weekend in New York – the city’s police.
“Basically, there are no words to describe the contempt I have for him”, Bratton said.
Quentin Tarantino marched with us today in #NYC in protest of police brutality & negligence.
The protest had been organised to highlight excessive, and sometimes fatal, violence used by police across the country and demand justice for those killed by officers.
Standing in front of a collage of the faces of victims of police brutality, Tarantino proclaimed: “This is not being dealt with in any way at all”. He added that police officers are too often “murderers”.
Tarantino, whose oeuvre includes the notoriously violent films “Reservoir Dogs”, “Pulp Fiction”, and “Django Unchained”, flew in from California to take part in the event with hundreds of other demonstrators.
Temako Williams, whose son, La-Reko Williams, was killed by police in 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina, walked arm-in-arm with academic and activist Cornel West, one of the organisers. She said: “It’s a wound that won’t heal”.
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There have been a number of high-profile cases in recent years in which unarmed people were shot dead by police, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. A suspect has been charged with his death.
