In an interview with New York’s RNN TV, Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota, who served as a deputy mayor in the administration of Rudy Giuliani, argued his former boss was responsible for saving the lives of many African-American men. Lhota made this claim when host Dominic Carter asked him about rocky race relations during the Giuliani administration, which saw African-American men become victims to multiple high-profile incidents of police brutality including the shooting of Amadou Diallo and the brutal beating of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.
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