(WNBC-TV) Quentin Tarantino's father says his son is "dead wrong" in calling police officers "murderers," referencing his son's comments while attending a police brutality march in Manhattan last weekend.
"I'm a human being with a conscience," the Academy Award-winning filmmaker, who flew in from California for the event, said at the protest Saturday. "And if you believe there's murder going on then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I'm here to say I'm on the side of the murdered."
On Friday, the NYPD's largest union, the Police Benevolent Association, released a statement from Tony Tarantino that suggested his son's comments were driven by blind passion.
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