Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said Monday he thinks he’s saved a lot more black lives than the Black Lives Matter movement has.
“I’m the mayor that saved more black lives than anyone in the history of the city,” Mr. Giuliani said on “Fox and Friends.”
He said the murder rate declined when he was mayor and that he spent a significant amount of time in the black community.
“I believe I saved a lot more black lives than Black Lives Matter,” Mr. Giuliani said. “I don’t see what Black Lives Matter is doing for blacks other than isolating them.”
“All it cares about is the police shooting of blacks,” he said. “It doesn’t care about the 90 percent of blacks that are killed by other blacks.”
The movement has gotten renewed attention after five police officers were killed in Dallas last week at the conclusion of a Black Lives Matter protest. The protest had gathered after the killings of two black men at the hands of police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier in the week.
Mr. Giuliani also said 82 percent of whites are killed by whites.
“When I was searching for the mafia, I wasn’t looking for black guys,” he said. “When I was searching for Colombian drug dealers, I wasn’t looking for black guys.”
Mr. Giuliani had gone after the Black Lives Matter movement during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that aired Sunday.
“When you say ’black lives matter,’ that’s inherently racist,” he said on CBS. “Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That’s anti-American, and it’s racist.”
“It’s inherently racist because number one it divides us — all lives matter,” Mr. Giuliani said on Fox Monday.
He said former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley was “intimidated” at one point into retreating from a statement that “all lives matter.”
Mr. Giuliani also said he’s prosecuted more police officers than any mayor in city history and has put many police officers in jail.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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