Cop Union Vows ‘Surprise’ For Tarantino After Anti-Police Brutality Remarks

Director Quentin Tarantino, center, participates in a rally to protest against police brutality Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, in New York. Speakers at the protest said they want to bring justice for those who were killed ... Director Quentin Tarantino, center, participates in a rally to protest against police brutality Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, in New York. Speakers at the protest said they want to bring justice for those who were killed by police. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) MORE LESS
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The nation’s top police union is vowing a “surprise” for director Quentin Tarantino, whose latest movie faces a boycott for remarks he made suggesting some cops are murderers.

“Tarantino has made a good living out of violence and surprise,” Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, told The Hollywood Reporter. “Our offices make a living trying to stop violence, but surprise is not out of the question.”

He said the group will be “opportunistic” in its next move to protest the director, but insisted the vow should not be taken as a physical threat.

“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,” Pasco said.

The comment is the latest escalation in the backlash from police groups Tarantino has received since making the initial remarks at a rally last month.

“When I see murder, I cannot stand by,” Tarantino said at the anti-police brutality rally. “And I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.”

He later clarified that he was referring to the cops involved in the deaths of unarmed black men like Tamir Rice and Eric Garner. But he has largely stood by the remarks.

“I was under the impression that I was an American and that I had First Amendment rights,” Tarantino told MSNBC this week.

A number of cop groups across the country say they will boycott his latest movie, The Hateful Eight, which comes out in December

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  1. Well, I certainly hope they smash all their copies of “Kill Bill” and “Pulp Fiction” while they’re at it making threats and stamping their little feet.

  2. Avatar for weezer weezer says:

    So the police union, made up of people sworn to enforce the law and protect the public will retaliate against someone for exercising his freedom of speech, a right they’re supposed to be protecting. Isn’t making threats against the law they’re supposed to be upholding?

  3. And Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, pretty much the rest of the catalog.

  4. So the FOP is officially “for” police brutality. Got it. Can the SPLC label them a hate group yet?

  5. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    “When I see murder, I cannot stand by,”

    That’s rich coming from the ultimate violence porn schlock-meister.

    He went on to elaborate, “When I see murder, I cannot stand by, I have to profit off of it.”

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