Slaying Of NYPD Officers: Giuliani Blames Obama’s ‘Propaganda That Everybody Should Hate’ Cops

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani lays blame for the assassination of two NYC police officers at the feet of President Obama.

Asked on Fox News this morning, “What would you do going forward to calm tensions in this city?,” Rudy Giuliani said NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio should tell police he was wrong to focus on their “misconduct” and offered him a script.

“‘Maybe I was wrong,'” Giuliani said de Blasio should tell the NYPD, “‘about putting too much emphasis on, you know, police misconduct,’ when in fact police misconduct is a minor part of the problem. Community, serious violent crime, is a much bigger part of the problem,” he said.

“The police officers are doing the most” to save Black lives he claimed.

Fox News suggested it’s time for the protests to end and people to “ease the tone” about police violence.

Giuliani said the NYPD unions that are blaming Mayor de Blasio for Saturday’s murder of two New York City police officers aren’t looking in the right place. President Barack Obama‘s “propaganda” is to blame, the former NYC mayor and GOP presidential candidate said.

“I think it goes too far to blame the mayor for the murder or to ask for the mayor’s resignation,” Giuliani said. “We’ve had four months of propaganda starting with the president that everybody should hate the police.”

A former federal prosecutor who made a name for himself by going after the Mafia, Giuliani tried to bolster his case on Fox by pointing to nationwide protests against police violence and the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

“The protests are being embraced, the protests are being encouraged. The protests, even the ones that don’t lead to violence, a lot of them lead to violence, all of them lead to a conclusion. The police are bad, the police are racist. That is completely wrong. That is completely wrong. Actually, the people who do the most for the black community in America are the police.”

He also pointed to the President, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Al Sharpton, who, he claimed, “have created an atmosphere of severe, strong, anti-police hatred in certain communities. For that, they should be ashamed of themselves.” 

 

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