NYPD And LAPD Call For Quentin Tarantino Boycott
Quentin Tarantino is a polarizing figure in my life. I have to honestly say I don’t think there is an artist that has influenced me more than he has. When I was just a young wet, behind the ears kid who simply loved writing and filmmaking and QT was a big reason why. I love most of his films, so much so I can put many of them on a loop and just watch them all day. On the other hand though, he can be frustrating. It’s no secret the motherfucker wants to be in good standing with the black community, he makes that clear by how hard he tries. If you need an example take a look at this video from his appearance on BET’s 106 and Park when he made everyone on set feel awkward with his forced slang and accent. Even though that shit was hard to watch, you can see that he really trying to get everyone in the audience and watching at home to like him. That came off as comical, but ‘Django Unchained’ did not, at least not to me. He used the N-word well over a hundred times for no logical reason in some points and needless to say it rubbed some the wrong way.
But fast forward to Saturday when the director was basically called out by not only the NYPD but also the LAPD, why? Because the outspoken director took to the streets of New York with protesters, most of which were black to protest the rampant police brutality plaguing the country. The rally came four days after a New York police officer was slain during a pursuit. Tarantino did call that incident “unfortunate” but went on to say:
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.”
Needless to say the NYPD didn’t take that too kindly, they called for a boycott of Tarantino and his films including the upcoming ‘Hateful 8’. Turns out the LAPD was none to happy either and responded by saying:
“We fully support constructive dialogue about how police interact with citizens. But there is no place for inflammatory rhetoric that makes police officers even bigger targets than we already are…Hateful rhetoric dehumanizes police and encourages attacks on us. And questioning everything we do threatens public safety by discouraging officers from putting themselves in positions where their legitimate actions could be falsely portrayed as thuggery.”
The issue of police violence and brutality is far bigger than Quentin Tarantino and the NYPD or the LAPD might want to shift their attention to that issue otherwise they’ll have more Quentin Tarantinos coming out of the wood work.
[Source: The Wrap]