Rudy Giuliani Slams Beyonce's VMAs Performance: 'I Saved More Black Lives'
Two days later and many of us are still trying to digest everything that happened during Beyoncé's unforgettable performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. A 15 minute set that featured a medley of songs from her latest album Lemonade, Beyoncé's onstage routine was incredible from start to finish, ending with the singer's backup dancers falling one by one and forming the female symbol with their bodies.
However, there's one particular person that wasn't pleased with the performance — former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
In yesterday's (Monday) taping of Fox & Friends Giuliani voiced his complaints about the Queen B's set, perceiving it all as anti-police and ultimately calling the singer's choice of imagery a "shame."
"I had five uncles who were police officers, two cousins who were, and one who died in the line of duty. I ran the largest and best police department in the world, the New York City Police Department," Giuliani said. "I saved more black lives than any of those people you saw on stage by reducing crime, and particularly homicide, by 75 percent — of which maybe 4,000 or 5,000 were African American young people, who are all alive today because of the policies I put in effect that weren’t in effect for 35 years."
This isn't the first time Giuliani has critiqued a Beyoncé performance. Back in February when the pop artist performed at Super Bowl 50 and did the "Black Power" salute after her set, Giuliani told Fox & Friends "I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers who are the people who protect her and protect us, and keep us alive."
Generalizing Beyoncé's performances to being anti-police ignores the problems that the singer is commenting and critiquing on, and obviously Giuliani doesn't get that whatsoever. But it's all good — no matter what the former mayor has to say Queen B will still continue to be the inspiring artist that she is.
