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Giuliani Suggests Bill De Blasio Is The Real Racist

CREDIT: FOX NEWS
CREDIT: FOX NEWS

On a Fox and Friends news segment, the former mayor of New York City said that the encounter between Officer Daniel Pantaleo and Garner, in which Pantaleo put Garner in a fatal chokehold, was not an act of racism. On the flip side, he argued that current mayor Bill de Blasio’s failure to mention black on black crime in the city during his press conference Wednesday night did constitute racism.

De Blasio held a press conference after a grand jury decided not to indict Pantaleo, despite the fact that he was filmed choking Garner to death on a sidewalk. The incumbent mayor expressed concerns that many families have about the safety of their children, given the number of deaths at the hands of police officers. He also talked about the conversation he would need to have with his son. “We are dealing with centuries of racism that have brought us to this day,” he said.

In response to the press conference, Giuliani implied that de Blasio’s comments were racist in and of themselves. If de Blasio were going to talk to his biracial son about being killed while black, he should mention black on black crime, Giuliani argued.

First of all, there’s no racism in this case. If this man were a white man resisting arrest at that same size, the same thing would happen. There was an African American sargeant on the scene observing, in charge of the situation, never did anything to stop it…As far as I know…she did nothing to interrupt it. To suggest that racism is involved, just because it’s a white man and a black man, and then also to talk about families worried about their children, there are a handful of police shootings of blacks. Ninety-six of the time, it’s a black child being killed by a black. If he wants to train young black men in how to avoid being killed in the city, you can talk about police. Police should never kill anybody unjustifiably. I’ve put them in jail when that happens. But you should spend 90 percent of your time talking about the way they’re actually probably going to get killed, which is by another black. To avoid that fact, I think, is racist.

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He also said that the mayor and civil rights lawyers are undermining law enforcement. “One of the things the mayor, Sharpton, and the others are doing,” Giuliani claimed, is “tearing down respect for a criminal justice system that goes back to England in the 11th Century.”

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