Giuliani, who was former president Donald Trump’s private lawyer, didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Talking on “The Curtis Sliwa Present” after the incident, Giuliani stated he was at ShopRite campaigning for his son, a Republican candidate for New York governor, when “abruptly I really feel a shot on my again — like anyone shot me.”
“I went ahead, however fortunately I didn’t fall down,” Giuliani stated. “Fortunate, I’m a 78-year-old who’s in fairly fine condition, as a result of if I wasn’t, I’d have hit the bottom and doubtless cracked my cranium.”
Giuliani then claimed the employee referenced abortion rights, allegedly including: “You’re going to kill ladies. You’re going to kill ladies.”
Surveillance video of the incident, printed by the New York Publish, reveals a person in a billed cap stroll up from behind Giuliani and slap him on the again. A lady instantly places her arm round Giuliani as the person walks previous the previous mayor and his supporters and down one other aisle.
The video has no sound, however the NYPD spokesman stated Gill requested, “What’s up, scumbag?” when he approached Giuliani. The incident happened simply earlier than 3:30 p.m., and Giuliani was not critically injured, the spokesman stated.
ShopRite didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from The Publish late Sunday. In a press release to WCBS, a consultant acknowledged that an incident happened between Giuliani and a retailer affiliate at a Staten Island location.
“Retailer safety noticed the incident, reacted swiftly and the police have been notified,” the consultant stated. “We’ve zero tolerance for aggression towards anybody.”
In an interview with the New York Instances, Giuliani stated he took the worker’s remarks to be “political,” a reference to the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s resolution on Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, which protected the constitutional proper to abortion. Police didn’t specify whether or not the suspect referenced abortion or the Supreme Court docket resolution.
All through his political profession, Giuliani has wavered on the problem of abortion rights. On his weekly radio present Sunday earlier than the grocery retailer incident, Giuliani stated he was “adamantly” towards abortion throughout a dialogue on the Supreme Court docket resolution.
However as New York mayor, Giuliani was a supporter of abortion rights, even signing a proclamation celebrating the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Tampa Bay Instances and CNN reported. Furthermore, Giuliani donated to Deliberate Parenthood at the least six occasions within the Nineteen Nineties, Politico reported in 2007, when Giuliani was in search of the GOP presidential nomination.
It was throughout that marketing campaign that Giuliani’s stance on the problem got here underneath scrutiny, because the candidate stated repeatedly that he personally opposed abortion however believed it was an “emotional resolution that ought to finally be left as much as the girl,” his spokeswoman informed Politico on the time.
Amid stress, Giuliani determined to firmly assist abortion rights throughout the marketing campaign, making him an outlier amongst his Republican opponents, the New York Instances reported.
On his present Sunday, Giuliani known as his prior stance “very infantile and immature” and stated that he has gone by way of a “torturous mental and emotional and ethical state of affairs with abortion,” now saying he’s towards abortions.
At the same time as Giuliani faces scrutiny for his unfounded claims of fraud following the 2020 presidential election outcomes, he’s utilizing his political model in sure enclaves of New York to assist increase his son’s bid for governor.
Andrew Giuliani, who praised the Supreme Court docket resolution Friday, condemned the alleged assault on his father in a tweet Sunday evening, including that it was “over politics.”
“We won’t be intimidated by left wing assaults,” he wrote. “As governor I’ll get up for legislation and order in order that New Yorkers really feel secure once more.”
