Giuliani on Eric Holder Pursuing Ferguson Discrimination Charges: ‘He Better Watch Out’

DOOCY: “Even though the grand jury out in Ferguson, Missouri did not indict that police officer, Darren Wilson, it sounds — and no fault so far, they may actually sue the Ferguson police department for racial discrimination, unless they make some changes.”
GIULIANI: “It sounds strange because we’ve had two complete investigations in which the police officer has been exonerated. We’ve now had a chance to read the grand jury testimony and he can see the police officer was clearly acting in self-defense. Seven witnesses support that in detail. That wasn’t even a close case, by the way. That’s a case of out and out self-defense, textbook variety under criminal law. He then had a chance to investigate it himself, for two, three months, came to the conclusion, he couldn’t bring criminal charges. So I don’t know. Maybe he has something else I don’t know. If he’s basing it on the Garner case, it would be a big mistake. If there are other incidents that he has that we don’t know about, well then he’s gonna put them in court –“
DOOCY: “But think about the atmospherics back then, people in that community were like, this is unjust! Somebody’s got to help us. And then you had the president, you had Eric Holder, said we’re going to do something too.”
GIULIANI: “You got to be very careful about this case because there was a lot of lying that went on, or I should say a lot of lying that went on in the Ferguson case. Remember there were the people who said he was shot in back.”
HASSELBECK: “That’s right.”
GIULIANI: “They testified, I believe, several testified under oath that he was shot in the back. He was not shot in the back. There is no question about that, from both coroners who examined him. You had some other people who said he had his hands up. Then you had a string of witnesses, African-American, I might add, who said his hands never were up.”
MORRIS: “That’s right.”
GIULIANI: “So you had a lot of exaggerated statements there that turned out to be untrue. So he better watch out that he doesn't base the rest of his case on that.”
MORRIS: “Holder said he hasn’t politicized this department. Do you buy that?”
GIULIANI: “Um -- I would say that — I can’t say that he’s politicized it. I can say he made some decisions I don’t agree with. I can’t say that he’s politicized it in a sense that they’ve gone out campaigning, they’ve supported campaigns. As far as I know they followed those rules. But he certainly has made decisions I don’t agree with.”