Tyler Perry Oscars Speech Says Not to Hate Police Officers, Audience Stops Clapping On 4/26/21 at 4:53 AM EDT The Oscars audience stopped clapping after filmmaker Tyler Perry urged Americans not to hate police officers during his inspirational speech. Perry, 51, told the audience to "refuse hate" as he accepted the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday. In his speech, Perry recalled his homeless past, his mother's experience growing up in the Jim Crow South and how she taught him "to refuse blanket judgment." Read more He later continued: "I refuse to hate someone because they're Mexican or because they are black or white, or LGBTQ. I refuse to hate someone because they're a police officer or because they're Asian. I would hope we would refuse hate."