The executive director of the largest police unions in the US has threatened a “surprise” for Quentin Tarantino after the director drew officers’ ire for comments about police brutality.
Jim Pasco, of the Fraternal Order of Police, told the Hollywood Reporter that the union has something planned for Tarantino and that “the element of the surprise is the most important element”.
“The time and place will come up and we’ll try to hurt him the only way that seems to matter to him, and that’s economically,” said Mr Pasco.
He said this event could happen anytime between now and the premiere of The Hateful Eight, which opens on Christmas Day.
Numerous police groups have said they will boycott the film after Tarantino attended an anti-police brutality rally in October where said he was protesting “murder” and was there to demonstrate that he was “on the side of the murdered”.
New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association boss Pat Lynch called Tarantino a “cop hater”.
Texas representative Ted Poe, a Republican, called Tarantino’s comments “idiotic” and said they “encourage mischief and crimes” against officers.
Tarantino has defended his remarks and insisted he is not “anti police”.
On Wednesday, Tarantino said that police, by feuding with him, are obscuring “the fact that the citizenry has lost trust in (police)”.
“Anybody who acknowledges that there’s a problem in law enforcement in this country right now is considered by law enforcement part of the problem – whether that be me, whether that be (New York mayor) Bill de Blasio, whether that be President Barack Obama,” said Tarantino.
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