Discussion: Cop Union Vows 'Surprise' For Tarantino After Anti-Police Brutality Remarks

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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.

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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?

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

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

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“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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I really didn’t need another reason to go see this movie, but I do appreciate the Killer Cop Apologist union for providing an additional one.

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Oh, please, Mr. Cop, don’t picket my movie! Why the free news reports will mean more people will be curious to see it and buy more tickets. I will be so surprised!

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And once again the NYPD union makes utter assholes of themselves. Well done, dickheads.

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I have to think they’re escalating this fight with Tarantino as an intentional distraction. They’re trying to turn him into the Michael Moore of the Black Lives Matter. iirc they’ve done the same thing with certain people over rap lyrics in the past.

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“Our offices make a living trying to stop violence, but surprise is not out of the question.”

Well that’s certainly some sinister s–t. “Hey, nice movie you got here, Mr. Tarantino… shame if something happened to it.”

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I’m sure Tarantino got a huge belly laugh out of this.

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Once upon a time the cops fought the mob. Now they are the mob.

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“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.

Actually he has made films that are based off of decent story telling. If there is violence in any of those tales, its because it reasonably advances a story and doesn’t advocate an agenda (his current beef with Spike aside.)

"Our offices make a living trying to stop violence, but surprise is not out of the question."

Pasco just needs to stick with that boycott card already. Any other reveal is frankly asking for it.

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And apparently they don’t believe the cop who killed Walter Scott, or the cops who killed Eric Garner, shouldn’t be called murderers.

I’d be more pro-cop if they were as upset as the rest of us are about the bad apples wearing blue uniforms. You’d think they’d want to distance themselves from and get rid of people like that to preserve the good name that the rest of them have. But if they’re gonna be upset because the rest of us are upset about killer cops, then they’ve thrown in with the wrong side, and it’s gonna make the good cops look bad.

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[studies his fingernails] - and how many cops go see my movies anyway?

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Ok…what is the definition of this term?

Now if the idea is that his films are overly violent, then go for it. But again, Tarantino should never be confused with either Hitchcock or Spielberg in regards to how he puts plot-lines together. This idea of profit is actually asking for it, because folks forget that the gates were swung wide open when studios (and the censors) essentially said ‘go for it’ in regards to morals.

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I stopped watching Tarantino’s movies after the torture scene in Reservoir Dogs. I don’t think it advanced the plot, which was already established by then. It’s my own conscience’s boycott, but it is my own.

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and that’s your choice.

However my favorite Tarentino films are the obvious ones and the second part had Beatrix Kiddo ripping Elle Driver’s other eyeball out.

Hence again that damn ‘push’.

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When I was nine or ten and playing war with my friends, we were proud of the “fact” that no American soldier had ever shot an enemy in the back. Since then, we have grown up. I wish the police union spokesperson would grow up too.

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