'You should be able to talk about abuses of power': Quentin Tarantino fires back at police union head who threatened him with 'surprise' after director's 'anti-cop' remarks

Director Quentin Tarantino, who drew verbal fire from police after he called some 'murdering cops' at an anti-police brutality rally in New York City in October, says that he shouldn't be threatened for talking about abuses of power - especially not by police themselves.

Tarantino received a veiled threat from the executive director of the largest police union in the country, which promised a 'surprise' for Tarantino.

Jim Pasco of the Fraternal Order of Police told the Hollywood Reporter on Thursday that the union has something planned for Tarantino and that 'the element of the surprise is the most important element'.

'The time and place will come up and we'll try to hurt him the only way that seems to matter to him, and that's economically,' said Pasco. 

'A civil servant shouldn’t be issuing threats, even rhetorically, to private citizens,' the director shot back at Pasco, reports The Daily Beast. 

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Tarantino, pictured, received a veiled threat from the executive director of the largest police union in the country

Drawing police fire: Quentin Tarantino (third from left) is pictured promoting his new movie The Hateful Eight with (from left) Michael Madsen, Kurt Russell, and Demian Bichir

Pasco had told the outlet: 'Something is in the works, but the element of surprise is the most important element. Something could happen anytime between now and [the premiere]. And a lot of it is going to be driven by Tarantino, who is nothing if not predictable.'

The director of the upcoming The Hateful Eight said on Saturday at a press event that he expected that the vague threat probably had to do with picketing his premiere.

'People ask me, ‘Are you worried?’ And the answer’s no, I’m not worried, because I do not feel like the police force is this sinister black hand organization that goes out and fucks up individual citizens in a conspiracy sort of way.

'The only thing I can imagine is that they might be planning to picket us, picket one of the screenings or maybe picket the premiere, or one of the 70mm screenings.'

'You should be able to talk about abuses of power': (Behind, left) Channing Tatum, (from far left) Walton Goggins, Samuel L. Jackson,  (behind) Tim Roth, and (far right) Quentin Tarantino talk about themes of brutality and power in The Hateful Eight at a press conference in Los Angeles on Saturday

Jim Pasco (above), head of the Fraternal Order of Police, issued a veiled thread to Tarantino 

When one of the stars of his film, Samuel L. Jackson, joked that maybe they were planning to buy up all of the tickets to make sure the theaters are empty, Tarantino replied: 'Well, that don’t really hurt me! I don’t have any inkling and I haven’t heard anything about it, other than Patrick Lynch is keeping the fire on simmer.'

Patrick Lynch is the head of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York.

Lynch had previously called the director a 'cop hater' and a 'purveyor of degeneracy' and called for a boycott of his films.

Tarantino added that he doesn't have anything against the cops in his upscale Los Angeles 'hood: 'I live in the Hollywood Hills and when I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume he has my best interest at heart and he has the interest of my property at heart ... 

[But] go down to Century Boulevard and start knocking on apartment doors in Inglewood, and they’re not going to say the same thing.'

Tarantino was criticized for calling police to investigate a 'home intruder' two weeks before he spoke out against some cops at the rally.

He's also been accused of lying about spending time in jail for traffic stops - but police have no record of him ever being in jail. 

He added that it's wrong for cops to target him for speaking out: 'At the same time, you be able to talk about abuses of power. You should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases as far as I’m concerned, is outright murder and outright loss of justice, without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.  

The Fraternal Order of Police has promised to 'hurt' Quentin Tarantino some time in the next month - above he appeared at a NYC anti-police brutality rally in October 

Tarantino said that The Hateful Eight, which opens Christmas Day, deals with many of the same themes of today's police brutality headlines, though the movie takes place in the post-Civil War Midwest. 

Numerous police groups have said they'll boycott the film after Tarantino attended an anti-police brutality rally in October where said he was protesting 'murder' and was there to demonstrate that he's 'on the side of the murdered.'

Tarantino appeared at the David Di Donatello Awards in Rome, Italy in June with girlfriend Courtney Hoffman

'[We made this movie] during that last year and a half where many of the themes that we were dealing with, we were watching on television when we got home. We’d come to set and talk about them,' he said at a press conference for the movie. 'But the one good thing about the script getting out there is I’m on record for having written it before all the shit started popping off.'

Appearing on MSBNC on Wednesday, Tarantino said that police, by feuding with him, are obscuring 'the fact that the citizenry has lost trust in (police).' 

The union said their 'surprise' is planned before The Hateful Eight opens on Christmas Day. Samuel L Jackson is pictured in this promotional picture of the new movie which is set in Wyoming after the Civil War 

'Anybody who acknowledges that there's a problem in law enforcement in this country right now is considered by law enforcement part of the problem - whether that be me, whether that be (New York Mayor) Bill de Blasio, whether that be President Barack Obama,' said Tarantino.

On Tuesday, he told the Los Angeles Times, 'I'm not being intimidated. I'm not a cop hater. That is a misrepresentation.'

Messages left with Pasco for further comment on the union's plans were not immediately returned on Friday.