SUICIDE AND SAID THE FATHER OF
FOUR SONS WAS LOOKING FORWARD
TO HIS RETIREMENT.
QUENTIN TARANTINO IS NOT
BACKING DOWN!
HE IS MAKING HIS FIRST
COMMENTS SINCE HIS
CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS AT A
RALLY IN NEW YORK AGAINST
POLICE BRUTALITY.
CBS 2'S DANA TYLER REPORTS.
I'M A HUMAN BEING WITH A
CONSCIENCE!
Reporter: OSCAR WINNING
WRITER-DIRECTOR AND NOW
ACTIVIST QUINTIN TARANTINO IS
STANTING HIS GROUND.
WHEN I SEE MURDER, I CANNOT
STAND BY AND I HAVE TO CALL
THE MURDERED THE MURDERED AND
THE MURDERERS THE MURDERERS.
HE IS COMPLETELY OWNING
WHAT HE DID THAT DAY AND WHAT
HE SAID.
Reporter: TARN TEEN TOW
TALKED TO A REPORTER FROM THE
-- TARANTINO TALKED TO A
REPORTER FROM THE TIMES.
HE SAID HE IS QUOTE NOT GOING
TO BACK AWAY FROM THE
CONTROVERSY REGARDING WHAT HE
SAID AS THE AT NEW YORK CITY
RALLY LAST MONTH ABOUT UNARMED
CITIZENS WHO WERE KILLED BY
POLICE.
TARANTINO TOLD THE "L.A.
TIMES," QUOTE, ALL COPS ARE
NOT MURDERERS.
I NEVER SAID THAT.
I NEVER EVEN IMPLIED THAT.
INSTEAD OF EXAMINING THE
PROBLEM OF POLICE BRUTALITY IN
THIS COUNTRY, BETTER THEY
SINGLE ME OUT.
HE FELT THAT HE WAS BEARING
WITNESS TO THEIR STORIES AND
HE SAID IT CHANGED HIM JUST
BEING THERE.
Reporter: BUT HIS COMMENTS
UNLEASHED A BARRAGE OF
CRITICISM FROM MULTIPLE POLICE
GROUPS.
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
POLICE ORGANIZATIONS CALLED ON
OFFICERS TO STOP, QUOTE,
PROVIDING SECURITY, TRAFFIC
CONTROL OR TECHNICAL ADVICE
FOR ANY OF TARANTINO'S
PROJECTS.
GET IN, BOY!
Reporter: TODAY NASSAU
COUNTY'S POLICE UNION SAID
IT'S JOINING OTHER POLICE
GROUPS IN THEIR CALLS FOR A
BOYCOTT OF TARANTINO'S
UPCOMING FILM, THE HATEFUL 8.
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE FOR
MURDER.
Reporter: TARANTINO TOLD
THE "L.A.
TIMES" REPORTER, THE PRESSURE
AND THREAT OF A MOVIE BOYCOTT
IS, QUOTE, TO SHUT ME DOWN,
DISCREDIT ME, INTIMIDATE ME
AND SHUT MY MOUTH.
TARANTINO'S SPEECH IN NEW YORK
CAME AT A RALLY JUST DAYS
AFTER THE MURDER OF NYPD
OFFICER RANDOLPH HOLDER IN
EAST HARLEM.
TARANTINO SAYS THE TIMING OF
HIS COMMENTS WAS UNFORTUNATE.
THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY THE
DISTRIBUTORS OF HIS UPCOMING
