Quentin Tarantino’s father to donate to police after son’s ‘ignorance about law enforcement’

Tony Tarantino will donate profits from his forthcoming film

Quentin Tarantino (Mark Davis/Getty Images)

Weeks after Quentin Tarantino protested against police brutality, his estranged father has announced plans to donate to the Los Angeles Police Protective League because of his son’s perceived “ignorance about law enforcement".

Tony Tarantino criticised his son after he joined demonstrators marching against instances of police abuse in New York in October. He also took to the stage and told those gathered: “I'm a human being with a conscience. 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.”

Tony has pledged to donate 10 per cent of any profits he makes on Prism, a film he has written, directed and acts in, according to The New York Daily News. The film is scheduled for release in December 2016.

The 75-year-old told the newspaper: “Quentin’s ignorance [about] law enforcement and his inciting so much hate towards [police] really infuriated and upset me to the point where speaking out is not enough ... That is where the idea came from and we have worked on it since then to logistically put it together.”

Tarantino’s comments were heavily criticised by the New York Police Department Union, which even called for a boycott of his films.

The Hateful Eight director has reportedly claimed to have no relationship with his father in a past interview, saying he grew up in a single parent family.