The network made the announcement via Twitter. His comments led to a growing number of police groups calling for the boycott of Tarantino’s December release of The Hateful Eight. After naming a few of the widely reported victims of such actions, including Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, Tarantino said, “In those cases in particular that we’re talking about, I actually do believe that they were murder”. “I never even implied that”, he declared.
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Later in the interview, Tarantino slammed police officers around the country insisting, “They are being inflammatory, they’re slandering me”. “And their message is very clear”. The reason is because they want me to shut up… It’s to discredit me. “I have to call the murderers the murderers”, Tarantino said during the rally.
He continued: “Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest doesn’t mean I’m anti-police”, he said. The film director apparently thinks that freedom of speech is a one-way street: he gets to call cops “murderers”, but they don’t get to defend themselves. His words have brought calls from police unions to boycott The Hateful Eight.
“The Hateful Eight”, which was filmed in Telluride, is scheduled to be released Christmas Day.
New York police Commissioner William Bratton and numerous police groups, including the National Association of Police Organizations have condemned Tarantino’s comments, but Tarantino has said he’s being “demonized” by the police groups.
Tarantino doesn’t seem phased by the possible boycott, saying: “The people who are screaming against me are the mouthpieces for the police”. I’m not taking back what I said. I have to call the murdered the murdered.
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Pasco kept the conspiracy vague, but did tell THR: “The right time and place will come up and we’ll try to hurt him in the only way that seems to matter to him, and that’s economically”. “That is slanderous. That is not how I feel”, he added. However, union chiefs accuse Tarantino of failing to understand the nature of violence officers live with, although he produces violent films. It is to intimidate me.
