Mr. Giuliani, who was campaigning for his son, Andrew, a Republican candidate for governor, said a man who hit him in the back said, “You’re going to kill women.”
A grocery store worker on Staten Island was arrested on Sunday after hitting Rudolph W. Giuliani on the back while the former mayor campaigned on behalf of his son, a Republican candidate for governor, according to the police and Mr. Giuliani. In a brief interview, Mr. Giuliani said he was walking through a ShopRite grocery store in the Charleston neighborhood with supporters when the employee disparaged him and slapped his back, then made an apparent reference to abortion.
“The one thing he said that was political was ‘you’re going to kill women, you’re going to kill women,’” said Mr. Giuliani, who said he understood the remark to be about the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v.
