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Quentin Tarantino Backlash Continues Among Police Groups
New York Times ^ | October 29, 2015 | By Christine Hauser

Posted on 10/29/2015 3:45:57 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

Philadelphia and Los Angeles police groups have said they will join New York City officers in a call to boycott the work of the film director Quentin Tarantino after remarks he made last weekend at a protest against police brutality.

Tarantino, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker known for a bloody crime oeuvre that includes “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction” and the “Kill Bill” movies, joined demonstrators in New York City on Saturday in a protest organized by RiseUpOctober. The rally called for justice for people killed by the police in shootings across the United States. In a statement on Thursday, RiseUpOctober criticized the backlash against Mr. Tarantino.

“I’m a human being with a conscience,” Mr. Tarantino, who flew in from California for the rally, was quoted by The Associated Press. “And if you believe there’s murder going on then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I’m here to say I’m on the side of the murdered.”

After Mr. Tarantino appeared at the protest, the president of the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, Patrick J. Lynch, called for a boycott of his films, saying in a statement that Mr. Tarantino was a “cop-hater” and someone who makes a living “glorifying crime and violence.”

William J. Bratton, the New York City police commissioner, also criticized Mr. Tarantino. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; police; tarantino

1 posted on 10/29/2015 3:45:57 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Sorry about the Cyrillic characters. Don’t know how that happened.


2 posted on 10/29/2015 3:47:21 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Sorry about the Cyrillic characters. Don’t know how that happened.

It's been happening. I believe the powers that be, are working on it.

3 posted on 10/29/2015 3:52:47 PM PDT by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Tarantino also has a world class foot fetish.


4 posted on 10/29/2015 3:58:57 PM PDT by Williams (Dear God, please save us from the Democrats. And the Republicans.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The NYPD is free to protest Tarantino and he’s free to go make a movie about them that millions of people will go see.

I just don’t see this hurting Tarantino.


5 posted on 10/29/2015 4:03:06 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: MeganC
I just don’t see this hurting Tarantino.

Well, I'll never watch his crap again.

6 posted on 10/29/2015 4:27:47 PM PDT by The Duke ( Azealia Banks)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Albuquerque lost another officer today to a son-of-Obama felon.

Officer Daniel Webster dies (2nd ABQ area officer since May)

7 posted on 10/29/2015 4:31:45 PM PDT by CedarDave (Hillary for incarceration not inauguration)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

It’ll be easy for me to boycott QT’s movies. I find him vastly over-rated. He imitates better filmmakers from the past. The only QT film I really liked was Pulp Fiction.


8 posted on 10/29/2015 6:00:25 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Yeah...I liked Pulp Fiction as well.

Tarantino is such an a-hole.


9 posted on 10/29/2015 7:45:42 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I sincerely hope this blossoms into a broad boycott of his films by all police and other first responder organizations, unions and support groups, as well as every decent American who, though sometimes critical of their performance, strongly back them against these bastards including Tarantino and the whole BLM mob.

That’s going to be a lot of people and a lot of lost ticket sales.

Just like their is an awakening to the dishonesty in the media, the cronyism in Washington and the deceit of Democrat “leaders”, this is a good time for Americans to say “NO!!!!” to these relentless assaults on the basic elements of civilized society.

Rant over.


10 posted on 10/29/2015 7:54:18 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: JewishRighter

their should be there. Its late, I’ve been typing all day and I can’t see straight.


11 posted on 10/29/2015 7:55:22 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: Mark17; Brad from Tennessee

It seems apostrophes, quotation marks, hyphens are primarily prone to being replaced with other characters generally not found on a standard US English keyboard. It is worst when copying text and pasting it and I have replaced the extra characters with the correct one after previewing and had it come out okay.


12 posted on 10/30/2015 5:53:08 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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