As we told you yesterday, Quentin Tarantino sat down for a puff-ball interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes last night and it went about as well as you’d expect.
Tarantino didn’t apologize and stood by his claim that some cops are murderers, but added that police brutality is a “problem of white supremacy”:
Well, Tarantino did not hold back… #inners
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 5, 2015
Quentin Tarantino explains why he attended a rally against police brutality. https://t.co/hv8gLlmjWh
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 5, 2015
Tarantino Finally Speaks Out And Says Police Brutality Is 'Ultimately' 'A Problem Of White Supremacy' @clickpatricia has this story 5am ET
— Fox & Friends First (@FoxFriendsFirst) November 5, 2015
Tarantino even whined that the boycotts were somehow violating his 1st Amendment rights:
Quentin Tarantino on @allinwithchris: "I was under the impression that I was an American and I had First Amendment Rights."
— Kate Aurthur (@KateAurthur) November 5, 2015
Sorry, pal … grab a Constitution and read it. There’s nothing in there about no economic consequences from saying something stupid that infuriates hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Fox News guest and former NYPD officer Bill Stanton pointed this out this morning saying Tarantino has his 1st Amendment right to “spout all this” but it’s within our 1st Amendment rights to speak out against him and boycott his film:
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Former NYPD officer Bill Stanton: Quentin Tarantino’s words just irritate everyonehttps://t.co/Emp2WsFk2y
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) November 5, 2015
Of note, Tarantino singled out Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke:
https://twitter.com/ChristiChat/status/662111441122631680
And Clarke isn’t happy about it:
https://t.co/RySEXdILrC I never mentioned his name on Fox. This 1%er was stamping his credibility card that he is down with the struggle.
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) November 5, 2015
https://t.co/AISTAYtgHw @QTarantino_news You are a fraud. You do NOT share black experiences from your elitist lifestyle. Honor thy father.
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) November 5, 2015
I demand that MSNBC give me a 12 min interview like they gave Tarantino to respond to his lies about me and police pic.twitter.com/V9pJMtvQI7
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) November 5, 2015
What say you Chris Hayes? Let Sheriff Clarke speak!
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