New York Daily News

I only have 5 friends, Rudy sniffs

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The first time he sued the city after being stopped and frisked, David Ourlicht helped prove the NYPD’s controvers­ial tactic was unconstitu­tional and amounted to racial profiling.

A decade later, and after earning a law degree, Ourlicht sued a second time after being searched and unlawfully arrested yet again — and helped show how the Bloomberg-era policy continues to wrongly target black and Latino men despite a rollback under the de Blasio administra­tion, he told the Daily News.

Ourlicht’s initial suit over a wrongful stop in 2008 was part of the Floyd vs. City of New York class-action suit in which the judge ruled that stop-and-frisk was unconstitu­tional and amounted to racial profiling.

In March 2018, Ourlicht, who had since become a Legal Aid attorney, was with a friend in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, when they were stopped by two cops who accused them of smoking marijuana.

Both men were frisked, though nothing was found, according to Ourlicht’s federal lawsuit. But he was charged with destructio­n of evidence and taken to the 77th Precinct stationhou­se, where, he claimed, he was held for six hours before the charges were dropped when the Brooklyn district attorney declined to prosecute the case.

“This second time hit me a whole other way,” said Ourlicht, 32, who is black. “For it to happen after Floyd, after law school, as a public defender

Rudy Giuliani is having phone trouble again — and this time, it’s sad.

The former New York mayor forgot to hang up on a Daily News reporter Wednesday and, thinking he was off the line, started trash-talking ex-Gov. George Pataki while complainin­g he only has “five friends left.”

Giuliani — who has become infamous for butt-dialing journalist­s — made the mopey confession to someone named “Tony” after this reporter reached out about Pataki’s forthcomin­g book. The tome reportedly alleges Giuliani privately asked the former governor to call off the city’s 2001 mayoral election so he could remain in office in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

“There were people who wanted me to do it,” Giuliani told The News, still aware he was on the phone. “I thought about it for two days, but I never asked him to do it. I never made the decision to do it.”

Then, Giuliani said he had to hang up because he was about to board a flight. “I’m heading to L.A., I’m heading to L.A.,” he said.

But Giuliani never hung up. Pataki, who never ended up canceling the 2001 election, “stands by” his allegation, said spokesman David Catalfamo.

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