NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Mayor Eric Adams said on Thursday he pushed Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon to show leniency to the 39-year-old supermarket worker who is facing assault charges for touching Rudy Giuliani’s back.
Staten Island ShopRite employee Daniel Gill patted the former mayor and Donald Trump attorney on the back before allegedly calling him a “scumbag” during a June 26 campaign event for his son Andrew Giuliani’s failed gubernatorial primary campaign.
The elder Giuliani, 78, pushed assault charges for what he characterized as a “hit as if a boulder hit me.”
Security footage of the incident shows a relatively gentle pat on the back.
Adams has publicly suggested an investigation into Giuliani for filing a false police report, and, at an unrelated press conference on Thursday, said he spoke to McMahon about the case in a private meeting.
“I believe it was unfair for a New Yorker to spend 24 hours in jail for an offense that he did not commit,” said Adams. “I communicated that with the district attorney ... I just believe we should not have innocent New Yorkers spend 24 hours in a jail for a crime they did not commit.”
Gill was originally charged with felony second-degree assault of a person over the age of 65, but those charges were reduced to misdemeanor third-degree assault, third-degree menacing and second-degree harassment.
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