A 39-year-old suspect has been arrested, per multiple reports.
Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and ex-Trump lawyer, in the Staten Island borough of NYC in May. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
was slapped in a Staten Island grocery store while campaigning for his son on Sunday, the former New York City mayor and police confirmed to N.Y. news outlets.Police said they arrested a 39-year-old ShopRite employee after the former Trump lawyer was hit from behind, per the , which obtained footage of the incident. "All of a sudden, I feel this, 'Bam!' on my back," Giuliani told the Post."I feel this tremendous pain in my back, and I’m thinking, what the — I didn't even know what it was," he told the Post. "I hear this guy say, 'You're a f--king scumbag,' then he moves away so nobody can grab him," Giuliani added.he had "red marks" on his back but wasn't bleeding.
"The one thing he said that was political was 'you're going to kill women, you're going to kill women,'" Giuliani told the NYT, in reference to a comment he made about the Supreme Court's decisionThe New York Police Department's initial account didn't mention abortion, but said a man hit Giuliani in the middle of his back while saying, "What's up, scumbag?'" the NYT notes.
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