Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday blasted the city's current Mayor Bill de Blasio after videos showing people dousing NYPD officers with water surfaced on Monday.
"This disrespect for the uniform in NYC is result of a Democrat-Progressive (Retrogressive)-Socialist Mayor," Giuliani, the city's Republican mayor from 1994 to 2001, tweeted early Tuesday morning. "This is what happens with knee-jerk disrespect for police. It will only get worse until these Left wing idiots are defeated."
De Blasio said on Monday that these actions were "Completely unacceptable. A video from the 28 Precinct shows people interfering in an arrest by throwing water and objects at officers. The NYPD kept New Yorkers safe through the heatwave and last night's outages. We won't tolerate this kind of disrespect. NYPD is investigating."
"That would never happen in a million years while I was mayor of New York City," Giuliani, who is currently working as President Donald Trump's personal attorney, told Fox News host Laura Ingraham Monday night.
"Actually, it wouldn't happen if we didn't have a progressive, retrogressive, completely lazy mayor in New York City who is absolutely destroying the quality of life in this city. He's a disgrace, and actually, even Democrats don't support him and are embarrassed of him."
"That poor police officer, his morale has been destroyed. ... That uniform should be respected," Guliani continued. "When I see that uniform disrespected, it just shouldn't happen in America. That's anti-American. ... Too many people have died, too many people have died protecting us wearing that uniform."
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