Tarantino never says, nor does he imply, that he thinks all policemen are murderers. In fact, given the context, it seems perfectly clear that he’s talking only about specific instances of people killed by specific policemen. In later remarks on MSNBC, he said that he was talking about the deaths of Eric Garner, Sam DuBose, Antonio Lopez Guzman, Tamir Rice, and Walter Scott: He believes that these men were murdered, and that the policemen who killed them were murderers. He may have had other specific cases in mind (I imagine he did). Obviously, though, talking about a subset of police shooting is very different from saying that everyone killed by a policeman has been murdered, or that every policeman, by virtue of being a policeman, is a murderer.

Furthermore, I believe all (or virtually all) conservatives agree with him on some of the particulars. Walter Scott, for instance, was the unarmed man who was shot in the back as he ran away from a policeman. The policeman who did the shooting said he had been defending himself; a video showed he was lying; he was subsequently indicted and is awaiting trial.

For reasons I won’t go into, there was a time, when I was very young, that my house was under 24-hour police protection. When I was a little older, family friends used to take me to a state-police shooting range for target practice. No one is more pro-police than I am. And I can assure you that thinking Walter Scott was murdered no more makes a man anti-cop than thinking Volkswagen cheated on emissions tests makes him anti-car, or than opposing illegal entry into the country makes him anti-immigrant.