Hannity Addresses ‘Migrant’ Beatdown That Happened on His Show: ‘Statements Made by Curtis’ Were ‘Not True’
Fox News host Sean Hannity formally addressed an incident this week where Curtis Sliwa’s Guardian Angels roughed up a man they falsely accused of being a “migrant” during an appearance on Hannity’s show.
At the end of his show Hannity on Thursday, Hannity said:
Now before we go tonight, I want to talk about Curtis Sliwa’s appearance on this show on Tuesday night, when members of the Guardian Angels stopped a man and the police were called. Now, Curtis said that the man was a migrant and that he was shoplifting. Fox News has since spoken to the NYPD and apparently the statements made by Curtis that the man is a migrant is not true and the man was given a summons for disorderly conduct. Today, Curtis Sliwa acknowledged to the Washington Post that the man has not been charged with shoplifting and Curtis said in part, quote, “I shouldn’t have been listening to the crowd. That was my mistake. I should not have had that knee-jerk reaction.”
Hannity concluded, “Again, on this show, we always want to set the record straight.”
Sliwa’s appearance on Hannity, live from the streets of New York, was cut short on Tuesday evening after a group of his Guardian Angels rushed off-camera.
As the camera turned to face the action, the group could be seen roughing up and detaining a man on the street, who Sliwa then falsely identified as a “migrant” and claimed was spotted shoplifting.
“Our guys have just taken down one of the migrant guys right here on the corner of 42nd and 7th while all this is taking place,” said Sliwa. “They’ve taken over!”
Sliwa went on to tell Hannity, “Let’s just say we gave him a little pain compliance. His mother back in Venezuela felt the vibrations. He’s sucking concrete, the cops scraped him off the asphalt.”
The next day, however, NYPD told reporters that the supposed “migrant” was actually a New Yorker from the Bronx and had not been charged with shoplifting.
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