Rudy Giuliani said Friday that the reason many black children are alive today due to law enforcement and that the real “danger” is another “black kid who is going to shoot you on the street.”
In an interview with Brian Williams on “MSNBC Live,” in the wake of five police officers being killed and seven more being injured in Dallas, Texas Thursday, Giuliani said, “A confrontation with police is an inherently dangerous situation whether you’re white or black.” (RELATED: Police: Dallas Suspect ‘Upset About Black Lives Matter,’ ‘Wanted To Kill White People’)
“If you resist, a police officer is immediately going to become concerned for his own life,” Giuliani said. “And the reality is that doesn’t matter if you’re white or black. If a police officer says to me, ‘Put your hands up’ and I try to run away, I try to lung at them, I try to grab him, I don’t care if white or black that gun is going to come out.” (RELATED: Police: Dallas Suspect ‘Upset About Black Lives Matter,’ ‘Wanted To Kill White People’)“We have to teach young people that. My father taught me that. When a police officer tells you something, do what he says,” Giuliani said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re white or black.”