Video Shows Rudy Giuliani Slapped on Back by Grocery Store Worker, Man Arrested

Rudy Giuliani was slapped on the back by a supermarket employee in Staten Island Sunday, the New York Post reports.  

Giuliani, 78, was speaking with shoppers inside a ShopRite, where he was campaigning for his son Andrew, who is running for governor of New York. That’s when an employee at the store approached the ex-mayor and slapped him on his back. 

Per the New York Times, an account shared by police said the unnamed 39-year-old man greeted Giuliani with, “What’s up, scumbag?”

“All of a sudden, I feel this, ‘Bam!’ on my back,” Giuliani told the Post. “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 continued. “All of a sudden, I hear this guy say, ‘You’re a f*cking scumbag,’ then he moves away so nobody can grab him.” 

Surveillance footage obtained by the Post shows Giuliani getting a firm pat that certainly took him by surprise. 

“And he says, ‘You, you’re one of the people that’s gonna kill women. You’re gonna kill women,’” Giuliani said, alluding to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday. “‘You and your f*cking friend are gonna kill women.’ 

The man has since been arrested, and will allegedly be charged with second-degree assault involving a person over age 65.