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An employee at a ShopRite in Staten Island has been arrested after allegedly assaultingRudy Giulianion Sunday, police confirmed to PEOPLE.
“All the sudden, I feel a shot on my back, like somebody shot me,” Giuliani, 78, toldThe Curtis Sliwa Showof the alleged assault. “I went forward, but luckily I didn’t fall down,' he said, adding that if were not in “pretty good shape,” he would have “hit the ground and probably crack my skull.”
He claimed in a Facebook Live Monday morning that the slap “hurt tremendously” and that he did not know what it was. “I got hit on the back as if a boulder hit me,” Giuliani said.
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In the clip, Gill continued to walk after touching Giuliani. He then appeared to verbally engaged with the ex-Trump lawyer.
Giuliani said in his Live the man called him “dirty curse words” that he could not repeat (he toldthe PostGill called him “a f—ing scumbag”).
“Then he turned around and said that I was a woman killer. ‘You kill women. Your party kills women. You’re one of the people who kills women,'” Giuliani said, hinting the man’s words were likely in reference to theSupreme Court’s Friday decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “He might have made a reference to the word abortion in there, but mostly it was killing women.”
“He kept cursing and wouldn’t stop. He kept menacing and treating,” Giuliana added. “So I said, ‘Let’s get him arrested. Let’s make an example out of him. … This has to stop, this idea that you attack people.”
Gill was charged with second-degree assault, PEOPLE can confirm. Attorney info for Gill was not immediately available.
Police told CBS2 that Giuliani was at the supermarket to campaign for his sonAndrew Giuliani, a New York governor hopeful. Ina statement on Twitter, Andrew, 36, wrote, “Innocent people are attacked in today’s New York all of the time. This particular incident hit very close to home.”
source: people.com
