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Police released the name of the grocery store employee accused of slapping former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday.
Giuliani, whose son, Andrew Giuliani, is seeking the Republican nomination for governor of New York, was talking with shoppers in a Staten Island ShopRite when police say Daniel Gill, a 39-year-old store employee, slapped the former mayor on the back.
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Video obtained and published by the New York Post shows a man slapping Giuliani and proceeding to heckle him while moving to a nearby aisle.
Gill proceeded to call Giuliani a “scumbag,” according to a statement from the NYPD. According to Giuliani, the man then began yelling at him over the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“All of a sudden, I hear this guy say, ‘You’re a f***ing scumbag,’ then he moves away so nobody can grab him,” Giuliani said to the New York Post. “And he says, ‘You, you’re one of the people that’s gonna kill women. You’re gonna kill women.’”
Gill was initially arrested and charged with second-degree assault, according to the NYPD. On Monday, his charges were downgraded to a second-degree harassment charge, a third-degree assault charge, and a third-degree menacing charge, according to the New York Post.
Gill was still wearing his ShopRite uniform when he left court on Monday. Gill has been “suspended pending termination” from his job at ShopRite, according to a report.
Andrew Giuliani, whom Rudy Giuliani has been campaigning for, released a statement on Sunday condemning the attack.
“Innocent people are attacked in today’s New York all of the time. This particular incident hit very close to home. The assault on my father, America’s Mayor, was over politics,” Giuliani said.
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Rudy Giuliani said he was not severely injured by the incident when talking on the Curtis Sliwa show on local radio.
“Luckily, I’m a 78-year-old in pretty good shape,” Giuliani said. “If I wasn’t, I would have hit the ground and probably cracked my skull.”
