After a week of silence, the “Pulp Fiction” director has gone medieval at critics of his anti-cop rants — and has taken a few swipes at NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.
“You’ve got (Police Commissioner) Bill Bratton saying…’There are no words to describe the contempt I feel for him.’ Him being me,” Tarantino told the LA Times Wednesday. “Yet when asked about the Eric Garner case, his quote is: ‘I personally don’t think race was a factor in that incident.’ If you watch the tape, you can tell that it was absolutely a factor in that incident. But I’m the only one he has no words for the contempt because I was against police brutality.”
Being against police brutality for (Bratton) is being against the police,” he said.
Tarantino’s royale with cheese smack down came on the same day Nassau County cops joined a boycott of Tarantino’s upcoming film “The Hateful Eight,” which hits theaters on Christmas Day. Tarantino said he is not worried that his movie is going to tank as a result. “The people who are screaming against me are the mouthpieces for the police,” he told the west coast paper. “They can call for a boycott. That doesn’t mean that cops are going to respond. I actually have a whole lot of fans that are police officers. And they’re not going to take (Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President) Patrick Lynch’s word for what I said.”
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