Rudy slapped at SI ShopRite
Worker angered over abortion
Rudy Giuliani was slapped by a worker at a ShopRite on Staten Island on Sunday while campaigning for his son, leaving the 78year-old former New York City mayor shaken, he 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 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. You and your f--king friend are gonna kill women,’ ” Giuliani said, quoting the suspect, who now faces assault charges.
“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, said Giuliani, also a lawyer for former President Donald Trump.
The incident occurred two days after the Supreme Court reversed the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.
“The Supreme Court made a decision,” Giuliani said. “You don’t go around attacking people because of it. I mean, go get it changed.”
‘Can’t let little things go’
The ex-mayor told ABC the slap felt like “somebody shot me,’’ but, “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.’’
The former federal prosecutor told The Post he felt it was his duty to call the cops — likening the decision to his tough-oncrime 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.”
His son, GOP gubernatorial primary candidate Andrew Giuliani, called his dad “tough as nails.”
“He’s doing fine,” Andrew said. “But it’s a sad day when New Yorkers’ greatest crime fighter, ‘America’s Mayor,’ is attacked. I blame the left wing for encouraging violence. This is crazy.”
He said his father was in good spirits and even quipped that “‘I ran into the only person who is not voting for Andrew Giuliani.’ ”
Law-enforcement sources said police took the assailant into custody at the store around 3:30 p.m.
The suspect, Daniel Gill, 39, from Staten Island, was charged with second-degree assault involving a person over age 65. Gill has no prior arrests, sources said.
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