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Quentin Tarantino isn’t apologizing for his comments last month about police shootings — but he is trying to explain.

At a rally against police brutality in New York City, on Oct. 24, the film director provoked a storm of criticism when he referred to shootings by police as “murders.”

“When I see murder, I cannot stand by,” he said at the rally, “and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers!”

Police unions, furious with the remarks, have called for people to boycott Tarantino’s upcoming movie. Tarantino, for his part, told the Los Angeles Times that he never meant all cops are murderers — just the officers involved in certain high-profile shootings.

That explanation hasn’t mollified the police unions.

Quentin Tarantino, At The Eye Of A Firestorm — And A Brewing Culture War

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