Intense video tape of Rudy Giuliani being lightly smacked by a grocery store worker has leaked and wow, what a rough encounter.
The former NYC mayor and devout Trumper was shopping at a ShopRite on Staten Island on Sunday afternoon when an employee approached and slapped him on the back.
“I was shoulder-to-shoulder with Rudy inside ShopRite,” said witness Rita Rugova-Johnson. “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,” Rugova-Johnson added. “The cops arrested him.”
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The 39-year-old suspect, whose name was not released, was charged with second-degree assault involving a person over age 65, law-enforcement sources said.
“The one thing he said that was political was ‘you’re going to kill women, you’re going to kill women,’” Giuliani said, referencing the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal last week.
“This has to stop. This is getting ridiculous,” he added. “I’ve been in politics 50 years, I’ve never been attacked like this.”
Security video of the encounter has gone viral, but we must warn you that the violence cannot be unseen:
Video of the “assault” on Rudy at ShopRite, where Rudy had the person arrested, and said if he wasn’t in better shape he would’ve fallen, cracked his skull, and died. pic.twitter.com/EpgSpPu2fk
— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) June 26, 2022
Here’s how folks interpreted the event:
Thoughts & prayers to Rudy Giuliani,
who visited Staten Island today
and had his privacy and body autonomy
challenged by a man.— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 26, 2022
Rudy Giuliani are you f’ing kidding me with your “assault” allegation you clown?
You were LIGHTLY TAPPED & said it felt like you were shot
You had a guy arrested for patting you on the back & filed a false police report
You need to STFU & take all the seats you drunken traitor
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) June 27, 2022
Rudy Giuliani after his assault. pic.twitter.com/LdZ7diBFjg
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) June 27, 2022
As you can see in the recreation on the right, Rudy Giuliani was hit on the back with blunt force of all five fingers and an aggressive palm. One inch higher and his Thoracic Vertebrae could have been compromised. I'm calling this would be assassin Sirhand Sirhand. pic.twitter.com/AGCRN0wfTu
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) June 27, 2022
Is it bad I’m laughing about Rudy Giuliani getting slapped in a grocery store today?
— ?Brittney? (@AZ_Brittney) June 27, 2022
If Rudy Giuliani’s back slap was an assault then I’m a natural blonde virgin who doesn’t fucking drink and never ever swears.
— Jo ? (@JoJoFromJerz) June 27, 2022
Rudy Giuliani is marked “safe” at the ShopRite. He survived a harrowing pat on the back by a disgruntled Democrat who is now under arrest. https://t.co/IfLbfW4gD5
— Duty To Warn ? (@duty2warn) June 27, 2022
Jim
New York resources should not be spent on this non-attack
Mack
The “slap” was so light it didn’t even cause him to pitch forward. He’s just a drama queen. And his son is being a “drama princess” by making it a big deal on the campaign trail.
Tombear
At least his hair dye didn’t run.
LumpyPillows
Being spinless, this might have hurt more than expected.
scotty
“e”
LumpyPillows
spineless, I stand corrected 🙂
white-queer-african
As someone that will never condone violence, just this once, if it was me, I would have knocked his hideous teeth right out of his mouth. POS.
Kangol2
I don’t condone violence but this also, at least from the video, hardly looked like the hysterical claim Gooniani made it out to be.
Den
Right wingers lie. Evangelicals lie. Fundamentalists lie. Racists lie. Trump toadies lie. Trump cultists (usually at least two out of the five already listed) eat those lies up like they are donuts.
Giuliani is toadiest of the toadies. He is powerless NOT to lie. And he deserves violence (though I don’t condone it either).
Brian
The shocker is that this is being pursed as a felony. The man could lose his right to vote. He could have employment offers taken away for the rest of his life.
Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani committed election fraud and yet will continue to have the right to vote. Cops and courts ignore too many crimes and then they pursue the most trivial stuff. Shame on all of them.
Den
Hopefully he will have a good lawyer and a sane judge. The video clearly shows how slight the impact was. Giuliani, who is clearly frail from a poorly lead life (serves him right) was not even physically jostled.
And yes, cops exploit economic victims and protect economic criminals.
WillParkinson
No one should touch another person without permission. That said, it was a tap on the back, and he’s damn lucky he didn’t end up in a wheelchair or something. :eye roll:
Jack
If Rudy actually felt like he was shot it’s because his shriveled up, cirrhosis scarred liver popped down into his n*tsack. That. I’d believe
woodroad34
No wonder we don’t like republicans….they shoot guns at us, they run us over and they lie and file false police reports; And, still there is no repercussion for these lowlifes.
CNY1983
the yankees ought to YANK that ring off his dainty clean finger after he was BOO’D by the entire stadium on his ugly birthday.
imagine being in a room with that puss-dripping hair dye running infant penis douchebag drinking shithead and breathing the air in the room while he was in it.
Bosch
“I was murdered!!”
JJinAus
Rudy is an idiot. However, keep your hands off other people. The “perpetrator’s” comment was vicious and hurtful enough and I enjoyed that,