The city’s police union is calling for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino films after the “Pulp Fiction’’ director took part in an anti-cop rally less than a week after an officer was killed on the job. 
 
 “When I see murders, I do not stand by . . . I have to call the murderers the murderers,” the director — notorious for his violent movies — told a crowd of protesters in Washington Square Park on Saturday, adding that cops are too often “murderers.” 
 
 Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, lashed out against the “Reservoir Dogs” auteur Sunday. 
 
 “It’s no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too,” Lynch said in a statement. 
 
 “The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls ‘murderers’ aren’t living in one of his depraved big-screen fantasies — they’re risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem. 
 
 “New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous ‘Cop Fiction.’ ” 
 
 Tarantino acknowledged Saturday that the timing of the rally was “unfortunate.” But he said people had already traveled to be a part of the gathering. 
 
 Relatives of Police Officer Randolph Holder, who was killed in East Harlem Tuesday night, were far from appeased. 
 
 “I think it’s very disrespectful,” his cousin Shauntel Abrams, 27, said of the protest as she and other relatives gathered at the Church of the Nazarene in Far Rockaway ahead of Holder’s funeral Wednesday. 
 
 “Everyone forgets that behind the uniform is a person.” 
 
 Meanwhile, retired Police Officer John Mangan, who used to work at PSA 5, where Holder had been stationed, took to the streets on Sunday with a sign reading, “God bless the NYPD,” for a one-man march. 
 
 He walked the 7¹/₂ miles from the East Harlem station house to City Hall in a show of support for the fallen cop. ||||| NEW YORK (AP) — Organizers of a rally against police brutality spoke up Thursday in support of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who has been condemned by the New York Police Department's commissioner and police associations over his remarks at the weekend event. 
 
 Director Quentin Tarantino, center, participates in a rally to protest against police brutality Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, in New York. Speakers at the protest said they want to bring justice for those... (Associated Press) 
 
 The Academy Award-winning filmmaker behind "Pulp Fiction" and "Django Unchained" had joined demonstrators in the city speaking out on Saturday against the deaths of people at the hands of police. 
 
 "I'm a human being with a conscience," Tarantino said at the rally. "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." 
 
 Those words have brought out the ire of police associations in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New Jersey, which have urged boycotts of his movies. He also got a scathing response from NYPD Commissioner William Bratton. Speaking on a radio show on Monday, Bratton said, "Shame on him. Shame on him particularly at this time where we're grieving the murder of a New York City police officer. There are no words to describe the contempt I have for him and his comments at this particular time." 
 
 Bratton was referring to the fatal shooting of Officer Randolph Holder, who was killed Oct. 20 while responding to a report of shots fired and a bicycle stolen at gunpoint. Authorities have charged the man accused of stealing the bicycle with shooting Holder, whose funeral was on Wednesday. 
 
 The police associations slammed Tarantino as being "a cop-hater" and "anti-police." 
 
 "It's no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too," said Pat Lynch, president of New York's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. "The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls murderers aren't living in one of his depraved big-screen fantasies — they're risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem. New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous 'Cop Fiction.' It's time for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino's films." 
 
 The Los Angeles Police Protective League voted to support a boycott, as did the union representing police officers in Philadelphia and the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association. 
 
 Carl Dix, a co-organizer of the RiseUpOctober rally at which Tarantino spoke, said the criticism was "outrageous." 
 
 "It really is an attempt to squelch any discussion by people in the arts or prominent people in other fields of taking up and discussing controversial social issues," he said. 
 
 RiseUpOctober posted a series of statements on its website supporting Tarantino, from other organizers as well as relatives of those killed by police. 
 
 Messages left for the filmmaker's representatives haven't been returned. 
 
 Tarantino also is the director of movies including "Kill Bill" and "Reservoir Dogs." His next film, "The Hateful Eight," is scheduled for release in late December. ||||| Quentin Tarantino's dad says his son was "dead wrong" when he criticized police officers at a New York City rally last Saturday. 
 
 “I love my son and have great respect for him as an artist but he is dead wrong in calling police officers, particularly in New York City where I grew up, murderers,” Tony Tarantino said in a statement released on Friday by the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association Of the City of New York. “He is a passionate man and that comes out in his art but sometimes he lets his passion blind him to the facts and to reality. I believe that is what happened when he joined in those anti-cop protests." 
 
 In a Skype interview with FOX411, Tony Tarantino said his son "gets extremely emotional and involved through his passion on what he thinks is right, and in my opinion he went off totally without putting a lot of thought and consideration into what he was doing or say.” 
 
 Quentin Tarantino was speaking at a rally protesting police brutality when he said: "This is not being dealt with in any way at all. That's why we are out here. If it was being dealt with, then these murdering cops would be in jail or at least be facing charges." 
 
 "When I see murders, I do not stand by," Tarantino added. "I have to call a murder a murder, and I have to call the murderers the murderers." 
 
 Tarantino made his comments just days after a New York City police officer was killed in the line if duty. 
 
 PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said he appreciated Tony Tarantino's comments. 
 
 “We are very grateful to Tony Tarantino for having the courage to speak out and support the police. It is not easy criticizing someone you care about. But his son, Quentin Tarantino, has insulted the very people who protect his freedom of speech and who facilitate the making of his films," Lynch said. "He owes an apology to law enforcement officers across country and we will continue to encourage the boycotting of his films until he makes such an apology.” 
 
 So far unions representing police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia have joined the PBA in urging a boycott of Quentin Tarantino's films. But his father won't be joining them. “I’ll be the first in theater when ‘The Hateful 8’ opens," he said. 
 
 "The Hateful 8" premiers in December. Repeated requests for comment from Quentin Tarantino, and the Weinstein Co., which is producing the movie, have not been returned. 
 
 “I wish he would take a hard, dispassionate look at the facts before jumping to conclusions and making these kinds of hurtful mistakes that dishonor an honorable profession," Tony Tarantino said. "We have many friends and relatives who have served honorably in the NYPD and the LAPD and clearly, they risk their lives to keep the rest of us safe. Cops are not murderers, they are heroes.” 
 
 Tony Tarantino said local police officers and his involvement in the Police Athletic League helped him in his childhood. 
 
 In a 2010 interview, Quentin Tarantino said he and his father do not share any sort of relationship, and that he had never even met him. 
 
 "I have tried for years to create a personal relationship with him other than professional but you know due to circumstances that isn’t happening," Tony Tarantino said. "Unfortunately, that happens in too many families today. We just happen to be one of them." 
 
 - FOX411's Diana Falzone contributed to this report.
– NYPD Officer Randolph Holder was shot dead Tuesday, and by Saturday Quentin Tarantino was in Washington Square Park, protesting "murderers"—not the ones going after cops, but the cops themselves. "When I see murders, I do not stand by … I have to call a murder a murder, and I have to call the murderers the murderers," Tarantino said during the "Rise Up October" rally, per the New York Post, adding too often it is cops who kill. The head of the NYPD's labor union wasn't impressed and responded by asking locals to boycott the director's films, including the upcoming Hateful Eight. "It's no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too," Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, said in a statement, via the Post. "New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous 'Cop Fiction.'" About 300 people gathered for the rally, chanting and holding up signs that said things like "Rise Up! Stop Police Terror!" and "Murder with a badge is still murder." Tarantino concedes that the timing so soon after Holder's killing was "unfortunate," but he also says people had already traveled to attend, the Post notes. "I'm a human being with a conscience," Tarantino says, per the AP. "And if you believe there's murder going on, then you need to rise up and stand up against it. … I'm on the side of the murdered." Not everyone sees it that way. "The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls 'murderers' aren't living in one of his depraved big-screen fantasies—they're risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime," Lynch continues in his statement. One of Holder's cousins tells the Post that the rally was "very disrespectful." "Everyone forgets that behind the uniform is a person," she says.