Not just boycotting. On NPR, some commentators were speculating that he have problems getting cooperation from police next time he needed to film on location.
It’s a good way of shooting themselves in the foot. They already have the reputation of a criminal organization, so what they need is some more bad PR.
“Cops are out of control and too violent!”
“… We’ll show him violent…”
I am one who is normally for union-busting, but seriously, somebody needs to make this guy STFU. With handcuffs and duct tape, if necessary. I’m sure your typical policeman would rather not have the head of his union setting them up as some kind of fascist stormtrooper unit.
Emphasis mine.
You user name seems rather appropriate here. What exactly were you expecting?
I don’t consider myself a devoted Tarantino fan, but this is a guy who has written and directed a bevy of commercially successful and, in some cases, award-winning movies. He has won two Oscars for Best Screenplay, and been nominated twice for Best Director. In the Golden Globes, he has two wins, and three nominations. And that’s just the big award ceremonies.
I would be pretty damn surprised if he wasn’t articulate and well spoken.
Being able to write well doesn’t necessarily translate to being a good public speaker.
I was expecting a lot more cursing. 
When one of the consequences of your speech is being intimidated by the police, it’s not really “free” speech anymore.
I 100% percent support cops, but they do themselves no favors when they do things like turn their backs to the Mayor of New York, or stuff like this. No matter what, you have to bite your lip, and do your job by the book.
At the end of the day, the public will support cops because the same people who whine about the police are the same ones who would be one their knees kissing their feet when they showed up to save them from a dangerous situation.
There’s this new thing, we humans just invented it, it’s called “holding two separate, nonconflicting opinions at the same time.”
Here’s an example: I support good cops, while *simultaneously *opposing bad cops.
Another: I appreciate having an effective police force, while *simultaneously *seeking institutional changes that reduce racial and economic bias in policing.
One more: I am grateful when police officers help protect me from danger, while *simultaneously *decrying the fact that I receive more and better protection from them because I am White and middle-class.
Not that difficult.
Just for the record, Jim Pasco is the executive director of the national Fraternal Order of Police’s lobbying arm. He is not the head of the New York FOP, who is the magnificently mustachioed Mike Essig. In other words, he’s not a union leader, though individual FOP chapters are sometimes organized as unions.
Well, he said he would hit him monetarily, and that QT is " . . . nothing if not predictable."
I’m guessing he thinks they can get QT with a drug bust? Does anybody know what QT’s habits are in that regard?
So it’s his job to make the police look good, right? Way to go!
His job is to lobby for the interests of rank-and-file police officers. I suspect the majority of job requires him to make the police look bad, just not quite so publicly.
I’ve had them NOT show up in dangerous situations. To my house because they couldn’t be bothered, to a violent situation where I worked because “We’re busy, you’re on your own”. (Yes, I was actually told “You’re on your own” by the police.)
Do I get a cookie?
Just what i came to say.
And that russian heel is, apparently, a heel.
Not only that, but the President of the NY PBA is Patrick Lynch. Mr. Lynch makes Mr. Pasco look like a pinko commie liberal. That said, Mr. Lynch is only calling for a Tarantino boycott. Someone must’ve slipped some valium in his coffee.
I hate when NYPD traffic cops snarl, gesture and yell at confused drivers. I got yelled at over the phone by another when I dared call their office to find out the progress of a criminal charge I placed against someone. And, I was unfairly harassed and questioned at a DUI checkpoint with local goobers sitting in lawn chairs watching me like I was a circus monkey, only to be released and allowed to drive home when the cops had nothing on me.
Its easier for me to list the few bad experiences I have had with cops than list the 97% great experiences I have had with them when they were professional, prompt and helpful.
Take that cookie and eat it.
I love how both you and Andros completely did not react to the first half of my post where I stated I did not support cops intimidating Quentin Tarantino or any other cop protester in any way.
Obviously, I support cops but want them to act professionally. But, I get not everyone comprehends second level thinking.
It just occurred to me that this would be the perfect time for Tarantino to commit a major crime in NYC. If he’s arrested for it, he has a ready made defense based on a cop’s own public statements!
It’s kinda fun to think about what he could do…