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Rudy Giuliani slapped by worker angry over abortion ruling at Staten Island supermarket
NY Post ^ | June 26, 2022 4:46pm | Carl Campanile, Joe Marino, Larry Celona and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 06/26/2022 4:52:03 PM PDT by conservative98

Rudy Giuliani was slapped by a worker at a ShopRite on Staten Island on Sunday while campaigning for his son, leaving the 78-year-old former NYC mayor shaken, the ex-pol told The Post.

Giuliani said he had just gotten out of the men’s room at the store on Veteran’s Road and was being greeted by a bunch of supporters when he was suddenly hit from behind — an incident caught on surveillance video obtained by The Post.

“All of a sudden, I feel this, ‘Bam!’ on my back,” Giuliani said. “I don’t know if they helped me not fall down, but I just about fell down, but I didn’t.

“I feel this tremendous pain in my back, and I’m thinking, what the — I didn’t even know what it was,” he said. “All of a sudden, I hear this guy say, ‘You’re a f–king scumbag,’ then he moves away so nobody can grab him.

“And he says, ‘You, you’re one of the people that’s gonna kill women. You’re gonna kill women,’ ” Giuliani said, quoting the suspect, who now faces assault charges. ” ‘You and your f–king friend are gonna kill women.’ Then he starts yelling out all kinds of, just curses, and every once in a while, he puts in that woman thing.

” ‘You guys think you’re saving babies, but you’re gonna kill women,’ ” the worker continued to rage, according to Giuliani, also a lawyer for President Donald Trump.

“The Supreme Court made a decision,” Giuliani said. “You don’t go around attacking people because of it. I mean, go get it changed.”

The ex-mayor told ABC the slap felt like “somebody shot me,” and, “Luckily, I”m a 78-year-old who is in pretty good shape.

“If I wasn’t, I would have hit the ground and probably cracked my skull.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: assaults; bidensfault; bidenvoters; giuliani; hatecrime; rudy; shoprite; summerofrage; violence
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1 posted on 06/26/2022 4:52:03 PM PDT by conservative98
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Witness Rita Rugova-Johnson told The Post she was “stunned” to see the attack.

“I was shoulder-to-shoulder with Rudy inside ShopRite,” Rugova-Johnson said. “We’re talking, and all of a sudden an employee came out of nowhere and open-handedly slapped him in the back and said, ‘Hey, what’s up scumbag?’

“[The attacker] was on duty at the time,” the witness said. “The cops arrested him.”

Sources said police took the assailant into custody at the store.


2 posted on 06/26/2022 4:52:59 PM PDT by conservative98
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Sources said police took the assailant into custody at the store.

So, what is going to happen to that individual? Did the store fire that person? Hello?

3 posted on 06/26/2022 4:55:09 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: conservative98

Civil discourse. Impossible with these Marxist barbarians...


4 posted on 06/26/2022 4:55:23 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: conservative98

It was a “mostly peaceful” slap, so all is OK.


5 posted on 06/26/2022 4:56:35 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: conservative98

Why take it out on Rudy? He had nothing to do with the Supreme Court ruling.


6 posted on 06/26/2022 4:56:41 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Sodomy is nothing to be proud of.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Typically getting arrested at work for assault gets one fired...


7 posted on 06/26/2022 4:56:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: conservative98

It simply cannot go on, that one side in our politics resorts routinely to violence while the other is expected to just take it. They should throw the book at this vermin.


8 posted on 06/26/2022 4:56:59 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

The former federal prosecutor told The Post he felt it was his duty to call the cops — likening the decision to his tough-on-crime policies as mayor.

“I say to myself, ‘You know something? I gotta get this guy arrested,’ ” he said. “I talk about ‘broken windows’ theory all the time. You can’t let the little things go.

“I’m like, ‘I’m gonna get this guy arrested as an example that you can’t do this. And I said, also, in New York, we don’t prosecute people anymore And one of the reasons I brought crime down is I didn’t ignore stuff like this.”


9 posted on 06/26/2022 4:58:08 PM PDT by conservative98
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Typically getting arrested at work for assault gets one fired...

Yes, typically. However, we are living in a new paradigm, ma'am.

10 posted on 06/26/2022 4:58:44 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: conservative98

Assault & battery.


11 posted on 06/26/2022 5:05:17 PM PDT by sasquatch
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“””all of a sudden an employee came out of nowhere and open-handedly slapped him in the back and said, ‘Hey, what’s up scumbag?’”””


I watched the video and the slap on the back without words could have been ‘great job Rudy’.

So unlike the saying ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words cannot harm me’ this episode reverses that saying to “words can harm me after sticks and stones’.


12 posted on 06/26/2022 5:06:18 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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That employee's last words should have been, "No! Wait..."

Followed by an ambulance call, saying, "Take your time..."

Soon enough, it will start.

13 posted on 06/26/2022 5:06:38 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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This is why taxpayers fund jails.


14 posted on 06/26/2022 5:06:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: conservative98

Abortion is at risk in NYC or NYS?

Call Albany.


15 posted on 06/26/2022 5:06:59 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Domestic terrorists. Treat them as such.


16 posted on 06/26/2022 5:08:05 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: conservative98

Press charges to the hilt. Take him to Civil Court and sue the daylights out of him.


17 posted on 06/26/2022 5:08:39 PM PDT by Americannae1362
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To: conservative98

I believe Giuliani is “pro choice.” One of the reasons I didn’t support him for president.


18 posted on 06/26/2022 5:10:05 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: sasquatch

Also elder abuse.


19 posted on 06/26/2022 5:10:48 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

ShopRite
3010 Veterans Rd W, Staten Island, NY 10309

They haven’t released a statement yet.


20 posted on 06/26/2022 5:12:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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