Giuliani Hits Back at Dyson: I’ve Saved More Lives in His Community than He Has

Former Gotham Mayor Rudy Giuliani doubled down on his explosive remarks about black-on-black crime on Fox & Friends Monday morning, claiming that the “the danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer; that’s going happen less than 1% of the time. The danger to a black child…is another black.”

On Meet the Press yesterday, Giuliani mixed it up with MSNBC contributor and professor Michael Eric Dyson over the Ferguson case, alleging that white officers wouldn’t shoot so many black teenagers if the high minority crime rate didn’t force them to be in minority neighborhoods so much. Dyson called this “the defensive mechanism of white supremacy in your mind.”

“I’m not even going to dignify that with an answer,” Giuliani said Monday. He went on to argue that his policy of police placement as mayor was statistically-based, not race-based. “I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city,” he said. “I’d like to see if Dr. Dyson has ever saved as many lives in his community as I’ve saved.”

Fox & Friends segued to the commercial with Stevie Wonder, because #classy.

Watch the clip below, via Fox News:

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