Jamie Foxx Defends Tarantino For Police Brutality Comments

Jamie Foxx is applauding Quentin Tarantino for his controversial comments about cops.

The actor defended his “Django Unchained” director at the Hollywood Film Awards on Sunday night after Tarantino sparked a storm of controversy when he railed against police brutality at an Oct. 24 rally in Washington Square Park.

“Keep telling the truth, keep speaking the truth and don’t worry about none of the haters,” Foxx said from the podium at the Beverly Hilton, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Foxx then introduced the ensemble cast for Tarantino’s upcoming film, “The Hateful Eight.”

Tarantino, 52, did not attend the awards show.

At the rally last month, Tarantino told the crowd he could not stand by and remain silent in the face of ongoing police brutality.

“I’m a human being with a conscience,” he said. “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.”

He faced immediate backlash from police unions in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago and Philadelphia.

Tarantino’s own father released a statement Friday challenging his son’s stance, and Queens-born actor Robert Davi penned an essay for Breitbart.com condemning the anti-cop rant as “egregious and misguided.”

“When Tarantino does this we can only gather that there is silent compliance from the Hollywood elite. I can only imagine a screening at Quentin Tarantino’s house where the high fives of his friends are saying ‘right on, Quentin,’ ‘Man, you have got a load of balls,’” Davi wrote.

“I wonder if anyone said to him, ‘Wait a minute, slow down, think this through-your condemning the folks who protect us all, you’re being emotionally irrational and misguided,’” he continued.

“Well, I cannot be silent. My younger sister was murdered by her ex-boyfriend when she was 21. Shot and buried alive in a shallow grave. She wasn’t found until a year later and it was a New York City Police officer that helped me,” he wrote.

Speaking to the Daily News on Friday, Tarantino’s dad Tony Tarantino said he hoped his son would clarify his comments and issue a mea culpa.

“I personally think he should come out with a public apology to police all over the nation, not just the NYPD,” Tony Tarantino, 75, told The News. “I think if he did that, it would have a great effect.”

His son, the acclaimed director of “Reservoir Dogs,” “Inglorious Basterds” and “Pulp Fiction,” has not responded to requests for comment about his rally appearance.

Tony Tarantino, a Queens native, had three cousins on the force in New York City, he said.

“I would want him to say, ‘Hey, my comments were not meant against all police officers everywhere — they are strictly pointed at the few who have committed criminal acts and deserve to pay for those acts,’” the dad said.

Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association head Patrick Lynch echoed the elder Tarantino on Friday.

“He owes an apology to law enforcement officers across the country and we will continue to encourage the boycotting of his films until he makes such an apology,” Lynch said.

You think sh!t is a game!? This fool filed for asylum in Canada, claiming police brutality in New York ……

He’s gone to Canada to get away from America's cops.

A black American citizen from New York State, who has several outstanding warrants, fled to the True North and has applied for refugee status, saying he fears cops at home are targeting him for his race.

“They’re consistently killing black people, it’s documented, the United Nations has condemned America for their racial disparities for their police brutality,” Kyle Lydell Canty, 30, told CBC late last month.

“And honestly, I kept on getting harassed by cops for no reason, false charges, false arrests — I’m not just the only one going through it. All black people in America are going through the same thing. It’s corruption.”

Invoking the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, he said blacks are “being exterminated at an alarming rate” in his native land.

During an Oct. 23 hearing with the country’s Immigration and Refugee Board, Canty professed: “I’m in fear of my life because I’m black. This is a well-founded fear.”

Canty is right on two accounts. Blacks are almost twice as likely to be killed by police than whites, Hispanics or Latinos, according to data from The Guardian’s police deaths project, The Counted. And the United Nations has indeed censured the United States about this very fact, with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination condemning police brutality last August during the riots in Ferguson, Mo. over Michael Brown's death.

But the would-be refugee has a personal stake in his self-imposed exile. Canty said he has lived in six states, faced police harassment in each one and racked up a criminal record. Full details of his criminal past are not clear, but Canty said in his hearing he has outstanding warrants in several states for offenses including disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Records obtained by the Daily News show he faced misdemeanor counts of intimidation, jaywalking and failure to appear in court in Tuscon, Ariz. last summer. He once lived in Little Rock, Ark., and his last listed address is in Rochester, N.Y. Phone numbers listed for him are disconnected.

During the hearing, he also showed a clip of an encounter with cops in Salem, Ore. There, he was arrested for trespass after using the free wifi in a bus station for two hours, he said.

“I got bothered because I'm black,” he said, according to the CBC.

“This is a history of false arrest. My name is ruined because of the false arrest.”

Canty said he crossed the border into Vancouver about two months ago, planning only a short trip, before deciding to live there in a homeless shelter while awaiting asylum.

IRB spokeswoman Melissa Anderson told the Daily Beast the board will decide Canty’s fate in the next few weeks, but she is “not aware” of any refugee case similar to this one.

It is rare for Canada to accept Americans, with only a few being granted asylum every year. One of the most famous (or infamous) cases is actor-turned-nutso Randy Quaid, who applied for refugee status in 2010 after claiming “Hollywood star whacker” assassins were trying to kill him. He later withdrew the claim, and was arrested with his wife last month for crossing the border back into America.

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