UPDATE: The Weinstein Company Breaks Silence On Quentin Tarantino’s Cop Comments

UPDATE: Tuesday, Nov. 3 (3:30 p.m. ET) – It’s been two weeks since The NYPD, LAPD, Philadelphia PD, Houston PD and Chicago PD unions – the five largest police department unions in the country – announced they would be boycotting Quentin Tarantino’s films, The Weinstein Co. has released a statement regarding the director’s controversial comments on police brutality.

“The Weinstein Co. has a longstanding relationship and friendship with Quentin and has a tremendous amount of respect for him as a filmmaker,”; a Weinstein Co. spokesperson tells The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. “We don’t speak for Quentin, he can and should be allowed to speak for himself.”;

Despite their rather vague statement regarding Tarantino’s comments, sources say some TWC board members are fearful that “The Hateful Eight”; will take a bit hit when it opens at the box office December 25 and are pressuring co-founder Harvey Weinstein to do something about the mess.

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UPDATE: Monday, Nov. 2 (10:32 a.m. ET) – Quentin Tarantino has at least one celebrity supporter of his remarks decrying police violence: Jamie Foxx, who starred in Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

“Keep telling the truth, keep speaking the truth and don’t worry about none of the haters,”; Foxx declared last night at the Hollywood Film Awards when asked by reporters about Tarantino’s controversial comments, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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UPDATE: Monday, Oct 26 (10:32 a.m. ET) –The New York Police Department officer union has lashed out against Quentin Tarantino and called for a citywide boycott of his films.

Upon hearing the director’s comments, Patrick Lynch, the NYPD’s Benevolent Association president, called Tarantino a “purveyor of degeneracy.”;

He posted on the union’s website: “It’s no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too. 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.”;

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Quentin Tarantino was attending a protest rally in New York’s Washington Square when he took to the podium and began to enflame the crowd, already angry over a series of incidents in the city involving police brutality.

“What am I doing here?”; Tarantino told the crowd. “I’m a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by . . . I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers.”;

The protest was against “police terror,”; with protesters sporting such signs as “Rise Up! Stop Police Terror!”; and “Murder with a badge is still murder.”;

The rally, however, comes just four days after the slaying of a heroic NYPD officer, and there were reportedly some tense moments between enraged protesters and police who where on hand to maintain law and order at the event.

As Tarantino told The New York Post, the timing was “unfortunate”; but shouldn’t lessen the point that’s being made.

“It’s like this,”; said the Hateful Eight director. “It’s unfortunate timing, but we’ve flown in all these families to go and tell their stories . . . That cop that was killed, that’s a tragedy, too.”; Watch: