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Rudy Giuliani was mingling with people at a Staten Island grocery store on Sunday when an employee approached the former New York mayor, punched him in the back and called him “dirty,” according to police.
Now this ShopRite employee, 39-year-old Staten Island resident Daniel Gill, has been arrested and charged with assaulting someone aged 65 or over – a crime, a New York City police spokesman told The Washington Post. Gil, who could not be found for comment, has been in custody since Sunday night, the spokesman said. It was not immediately clear whether he had a lawyer.
Giuliani, who was a personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump, did not respond to a request for comment.
Speaking on the Curtis Plum Show after the incident, Giuliani said he was at ShopRite campaigning for his son, a Republican candidate for governor of New York, when “I suddenly felt a shot in the back – as if someone had shot me. ”
“I kept going, but fortunately I didn’t fall,” said Giuliani. “I’m happy, I’m 78 years old, who’s in pretty good shape, because if I hadn’t been, I would have hit the ground and probably broken my skull.”
Giuliani then claimed that the worker mentioned abortion rights, claiming that she added: “You will kill women. You will kill women. “
The video from the observation of the incident, published by the New York Post, shows a man in a cap climbing behind Giuliani and hitting him on the back. A woman immediately embraces Giuliani with her hand as the man walks past the former mayor and his supporters and down another path.
There was no sound in the video, but an NYPD spokesman said Gil asked, “What’s up, scumbag?” As he approached Giuliani. The incident happened shortly before 3:30 p.m., and Giuliani was not seriously injured, the spokesman said.
ShopRite did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post late Sunday. In a statement to WCBS, a spokesman acknowledged that there had been an incident between Giuliani and an employee of a store on site in Staten Island.
“The security of the store monitored the incident, reacted quickly and the police were notified,” the spokesman said. “We have zero tolerance for aggression against anyone.
In an interview with the New York Times, Giuliani said he accepted the employee’s remarks as “political”, a reference to the US Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to overturn Rowe vs. Wadewhich protects the constitutional right to abortion. Police did not specify whether the suspect was referring to an abortion or a Supreme Court decision.
Throughout her political career, Giuliani has been hesitant about abortion rights. In her weekly radio broadcast on Sunday before the incident at the grocery store, Giuliani said she was “strongly” against abortion during a discussion of the Supreme Court ruling.
But as mayor of New York, Giuliani was a supporter of abortion rights, even signing a proclamation to celebrate the anniversary of Rowe vs. Wade, the Tampa Bay Times and CNN reported. Giuliani also donated to Planned Parenthood at least six times in the 1990s, Politico reported in 2007, when Giuliani was seeking to be nominated for Republican president.
It was during this campaign that Giuliani’s position on the issue was scrutinized, as the candidate repeatedly said he was personally against abortion, but believed it was “an emotional decision that should ultimately be left to the woman.” , his spokeswoman told Politico at the time.
Against the background of pressure, Giuliani decided to firmly support abortion rights during the campaign, which made him extraordinary among his Republican opponents, writes the New York Times.
In Sunday’s show, Giuliani called his previous position “very childish and immature” and said he had gone through a “painful intellectual, emotional and moral situation with abortion” and now said he was against abortion.
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Andrew Giuliani, who praised the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday, condemned the alleged attack on his father in a tweet on Sunday night, adding that it was “because of politics”.
“We will not be afraid of attacks on the left wing,” he wrote. “As governor, I will stand up for law and order so that New Yorkers feel safe again.
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