Rudy Giuliani

The former New York mayor says he felt like he had been "shot" during the incident at a ShopRite store, but video footage which purportedly captured the ...

In a statement, Andrew Giuliani said: "Innocent people are attacked in today's New York all of the time. He wouldn't have known the difference." "I might have ordinarily ignored it.

A Staten Island grocery store worker has been charged with assault after police say he slapped Rudy Giuliani on the back and called him a “scumbag.”

But as New York mayor, Giuliani was a supporter of abortion rights, even signing a proclamation celebrating the anniversary of Roe v. Throughout his political career, Giuliani has wavered on the issue of abortion rights. Wade, the Tampa Bay Times and CNN reported. A woman immediately puts her arm around Giuliani as the man walks past the former mayor and his supporters and down another aisle. Police did not specify whether the suspect referenced abortion or the Supreme Court decision. “Lucky, I’m a 78-year-old who’s in pretty good shape, because if I wasn’t, I’d have hit the ground and probably cracked my skull.”

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he wants the man accused of slapping him on the back as he campaigned for his son at a Staten Island supermarket ...

In a statement Saturday, Andrew Giuliani said: “Innocent people are attacked in today’s New York all of the time. I respect the fact that there’s a division of opinion in this country," he said. I don't care if we're on the right, if we're on the left, if we're talking about Jan. 6 or yesterday ... Let's not participate in that. "I'm in good shape for a 78-year old. Wade, a decision that eliminates the broadly supported constitutional right to abortion. "I believe you let Mr. Gill go, a lot more of these crazy pro-choice people are going to start attacking people."

Rudy Giuliani insisted Monday that New York has turned into the "Wild, Wild West" after he was slapped by a worker at a ShopRite in Staten Island while out ...

Maybe he is out already, but he shouldn’t be.” He could have easily hit me, knocked me to the ground and killed me,” he said. “He’s lucky he didn’t knock me down.

Rudy Giuliani said he felt like someone had shot him, and claimed that he could have "hit the ground" and cracked his skull.

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The 78-year-old Republican said the smack and was followed by a verbal assault. "There were curse words and kinda threats. It seemed to have to do with abortion ...

Store security observed the incident, reacted swiftly and the police were notified. It seemed to have to do with abortion, you know, with the fact that he thinks women are gonna die," Giuliani said. Giuliani told the station that the man, a store employee, was angry over the Supreme Court's decision on Friday to overturn Roe v. This message has resonated with voters throughout my campaign, leading up to Tuesday's primary." "Innocent people are attacked in today's New York all of the time. I didn't know what it was," Giuliani said.

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani called police on a man who slapped him on the back at a New York supermarket but a video of the incident cast serious doubts ...

"I talk about 'broken windows' theory all the time. "Innocent people are attacked in today's New York all of the time. "Luckily, I'm a 78-year-old who is in pretty good shape," he said after the incident. I gotta get this guy arrested,'" he said. "You don't go around attacking people because of it. Wade, according to The New York Post.

"It was a very, very heavy shot. He could have easily hit me, knocked me to the ground and killed me," the former New York City mayor said.

Andrew Giuliani wrote in a statement on Twitter Sunday: "Innocent people are attacked in today's New York all of the time. He could have easily hit me, knocked me to the ground and killed me," he said. While campaigning for his son Andrew Giuliani's gubernatorial campaign in Staten Island, the former New York City mayor stopped at a ShopRite grocery store to use the restroom.

Rudy Giuliani compared the slap to a gunshot, explaining the man — identified as Daniel Gill — allegedly called him, "a f---ing scumbag?".

In a statement on Twitter, Andrew, 36, wrote, "Innocent people are attacked in today's New York all of the time. Police told CBS2 that Giuliani was at the supermarket to campaign for his son Andrew Giuliani, a New York governor hopeful. "All the sudden, I feel a shot on my back, like somebody shot me," Giuliani, 78, told The Curtis Sliwa Show of the alleged assault. He kept menacing and treating," Giuliana added. "He kept cursing and wouldn't stop. At the time, Giuliani appeared to be addressing a group of people.

Employee Daniel Gill, 38, apparently asked Giuliani, 78, 'What's up, scumbag?' during incident in ShopRite store on Staten Island.

In a statement, Andrew Giuliani said: “Innocent people are attacked in today’s New York all of the time. Giuliani claimed Gill said: “You … you’re one of the people that’s gonna kill women. It was not clear from the video if that man was also a store employee. One of the counts alleges assault on someone 65 or older, the NYPD said. Gill asked Giuliani, “What’s up, scumbag?”, according to a statement from the New York police department. As he was standing, 38-year-old Daniel Gill walked up from behind Giuliani, slapped his back and continued to walk, the video showed.

10:03 AM PT -- The suspect, Daniel Gill, was charged with three misdemeanors - assault, menacing and harassment. According to the criminal complaint, ...

Although Giuliani said he was nearly knocked to the ground ... it doesn't appear that way in the video. He could have easily hit me, knocked me to the ground and killed me." During a news conference he said, "He hit me to knock me down and if that doesn't merit jail time in New York, we're in the wild wild west." Giuliani told the NY Post he felt a "tremendous pain" in his back, and the guy was yelling at him about the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. as he struck Giuliani ... and you can tell from the video the guy's slap and choice words irked, not only Giuliani, but the team of people around him. Giuliani said this caused "physical injury including but not limited to redness, swelling, and substantial pain to the back and left side of his body, as well as causing informant to be placed in fear of physical injury, and becoming alarmed and annoyed."

'It Was a Heavy, Heavy Shot:' Rudy Giuliani Addresses NYC Supermarket Slap · "He could have easily hit me ... knocked me to the ground and killed me," the former ...

He had been a U.S. attorney in New York famous for prosecuting mafia figures and later was a Republican mayor known for tackling crime with his “broken windows” theory of policing. It happens in the home often -- not some criminal coming up to you and banging you on the back as hard as he could because he's angry at you, because he disagrees with you politically." He was released on his own recognizance and is due back in court in mid-August. As governor I will stand up for law and order so that New Yorkers feel safe again." The slap also came in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's Friday decision to overturn Roe v. Not every 78-year-old is in good shape."

A hoarse and angry Rudy Giuliani decried the downgrading of charges to misdemeanors in the Staten Island slapping incident.

“I was stunned,” eyewitness Rita Rugova-Johnson told The New York Post after the attack at the supermarket. “I was shoulder-to-shoulder with Rudy inside ShopRite,” Rugova-Johnson said. “The police observed the whole videotape, and charged him with second degree assault,” Giuliani said. I worry about this little punk for you.” Video showing the suspect backslapping Giuliani is “a little deceptive,” the 78-year-old former Trump lawyer said. The assailant was immediately arrested by police.

The former mayor of NYC claims he could have been killed by the “assault.” Video footage suggests, shockingly, that he is full of s--t.

As for whether or not anyone should ever take his word on something, he is also know for, in the words of one U.S. diplomat, waging a “ campaign full of lies” concerning Ukraine that got Donald Trump impeached the first time. Mr. Gill was then followed and threatened by one of Mr. Giuliani’s associates who allegedly poked Mr. Gill in the chest and told him that he was going to be ‘locked up.’ He was then needlessly held by the NYPD in custody for over 24 hours. You’re one of the people who kills women.” Gill has been charged with second-degree assault and “suspended pending termination,” according to Insider. Andrew Giuliani has since claimed the incident—which, again, appears to show his father being tapped on the back—is an example of “the left wing…encouraging violence.” He also said in a statement that “Innocent people are attacked in today’s New York all of the time. Rudy Giuliani’s election lies—for which he’s had his law license suspended in New York and Washington, D.C., and been sued for defamation—of course, helped lead to the January 6 insurrection that left numerous people dead. According to the longtime Trump attorney, who, over the last two decades, has gone from “America’s mayor“ to “Sir, the Department of Health has rules about people manscaping in places where food is served,” he was assaulted by a ShopRite employee while campaigning for his son, Andrew Giuliani, who is running for governor of New York. “I got hit on the back as if a boulder hit me. It hurt tremendously,” the elder Giuliani claimed in a video posted to Facebook on Monday. He also suggested to The New York Times that it’s a miracle he is still able to walk, and told Insider that if he wasn’t in better shape, the blow would have resulted in him falling to the ground, cracking his skull, and dying.

A heckler who clapped former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on the back at a campaign event has been arrested on an assault charge.

He was released without bail and is due back in court on Aug. 17. In the video, Giuliani barely reacts when his back was touched, but in interviews afterward he said it knocked him forward and nearly caused him to fall. Police said the man said, “What’s up scumbag?” Giuliani said the man accused him of being “a woman killer,” which he took to be a reference to the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v.

NEW YORK – A heckler who clapped former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on the back at a campaign event was arrested, jailed for more than 24 hours and ...

He added that the heckler should face jail time. We have zero tolerance for aggression toward anyone," the statement read. The heckler was initially charged with second-degree assault, a felony, before the charges were downgraded, WABC reported. A ShopRite spokesperson said in a statement to USA TODAY the company is aware of the incident and the employee is "suspended pending termination." The heckler was arrested and was arraigned Monday on misdemeanor charges including third-degree assault, a spokesperson for the Staten Island district attorney said. In the video, Giuliani barely reacts when his back was touched, but in interviews afterward he said it knocked him forward and nearly caused him to fall.

The worker's attorneys say he " merely patted Mr. Giuliani," whom they allege has "demonstrated propensity to distort the truth."

Driving the news: Authorities said at a news conference that 12 adults and four are "pediatric" patients had been taken to local hospitals. Giuliani did not immediately return a request for comment. Giuliani alleged the worker hit him so hard he felt "tremendous pain" in his back.

Not for the first time, Americans face a conundrum over whom to believe: Rudy Giuliani, or their own lying eyes? The former mayor and current election-lie ...

Instead, he made another example of himself: a man so morally confused that even a trip to the supermarket means loading his cart with lies and conspiracies. Giuliani, raspy voiced, wild-eyed, prone to rambling asides and struggling with his webcam, might have been on firmer ground if he had said the slap had knocked the sense out of him. “I worry about this little punk for you, because if he can come and hit me, a 78-year-old man, next thing he does is gonna hit you,” Giuliani told his Facebook Live audience. The employee appeared to direct some words at Giuliani — witnesses quoted him as saying, “Hey, what’s up, scumbag?” — and the video ended with security leading the man out of the picture and Giuliani pointing an index finger at him. At 7 a.m. Monday, Giuliani reported that “I got hit on the back as if a boulder hit me. Let us stipulate, right away, that violence is unacceptable, and that the worker, said by Giuliani to be upset by Giuliani’s antiabortion views, should face whatever legal consequences may come.

A 39-year-old man who allegedly slapped Rudy Giuliani on the back Sunday has been charged with assault with intent to cause physical injury, harassment in ...

Our client merely patted Mr. Giuliani, who sustained nothing remotely resembling physical injuries, without malice to simply get his attention, as the video footage clearly showed," according to the statement. while he was at the supermarket in Staten Island on Sunday, the New York Police Department told CNN. "Lucky I'm a 78-year-old in pretty good shape, because if I wasn't I'd have hit the ground and probably cracked my skull," he said.

Charges against the man who Rudy Giuliani claimed slapped him on the back were downgraded Monday, the same day the former New York City mayor called for him ...

NBC News has reached out to the Staten Island District Attorney's office for comment on the charges. In a video on his Facebook page, he described it as if “a boulder hit me” and “it hurt tremendously.” Wade, a decision that eliminates the broadly supported constitutional right to abortion. “We have zero tolerance for aggression toward anyone.” “We are aware that an incident instigated by a store associate involving former Mayor Rudy Giuliani took place at our store on Staten Island on Sunday. Store security observed the incident, reacted swiftly and the police were notified,” the statement said. "Given Mr. Giuliani’s obsession with seeing his name in the press and his demonstrated propensity to distort the truth, we are happy to correct the record on exactly what occurred over the weekend on Staten Island," the statement concluded.

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, claimed that he was assaulted while campaigning for his son, a candidate for governor. Video footage of the ...

“What if we didn’t have the video?” the mayor asked Tuesday. “This person would have been accused with a serious crime, when all he did was pat the guy on the back. It was clear that he wasn’t about to fall to the ground.” It was clear that it didn’t feel like a bullet. “It was clear that he was not punched in the head. If that video wasn’t there, then this person would have been charged with punching the former mayor.” Mr. Gill spent more than 24 hours in police custody.

New York City's Mayor called on the Staten Island DA to investigate “America's Mayor” — and said he's talking to his police commissioner about a probe of ...

He said the city is not putting NYPD resources to the best use. “New Yorkers know all too well that Mayor Adams is not alarmed by innocent people being assaulted on our streets, subways and supermarkets,” the candidate said in a statement. “We can’t have it both ways,” Adams said. Giuliani said the worker told him “You, you’re one of the people that’s gonna kill women. Gill’s attorneys have said he “merely patted” the former mayor. “Someone needs to remind former Mayor Giuliani that falsely reporting a crime is a crime.

Newsmax host Greg Kelly told Rudy Giuliani on the air on Monday that he doubted whether the former New York City mayor was seriously in danger.

What’s going on there in Staten Island?!” The store worker reportedly said to Giuliani: “Hey, what’s up, scumbag?” Newsmax host Greg Kelly told Rudy Giuliani on the air on Monday that he doubted whether the former New York City mayor was seriously in danger when he was slapped on the back by a ShopRite worker on Staten Island on Sunday.