Craig Lally, president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, said Tuesday that the union fully supports boycotting Tarantino’s movies, a suggestion first made by a police union official in New York. “This Tarantino character. I think he destroyed his career, because anyone who’s hearing that is going to go, ‘You know what, maybe I’m not gonna see his movies, ‘” The O’Reilly Factor host said.
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On Saturday, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker joined hundreds of demonstrators at Washington Square Park before marching about two miles along Sixth Avenue to protest police brutality nationwide.
“Tarantino has shown through his actions that he is anti-police”, said John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia union, 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 protests on Saturday were also controversial because they took place within days of the death of an NYPD officer in the line of duty.
On Sunday, the head of the NYPD’s union called for a boycott of Tarantino’s films, saying that he was peddling “slanderous “Cop Fiction” as a part of the #RiseUpOctober rally. So, when officers who are “risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem”, as Lynch says, are actually the causes of crime and mayhem in communities, particularly minority communities, it is not only fair but necessary that groups such as Rise Up October expose this situation. “It’s time for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino’s films”.
This comes on the heels of another Hollywood lefty, Seth Rogen, being hit by a boycott as his new film “Steve Jobs” bombed at the box office.
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“Hateful rhetoric dehumanizes police and encourages attacks on us”, Lally added.
