Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday dished out more criticism of Beyonce for the second time this year by calling her latest performance a "shame."
Beyonce walked down the red carpet of the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night with the mothers whose children were lost to police brutality. On Monday, "Fox & Friends" co-host Ainsley Earhardt pointed out to Giuliani that in her performance, Beyonce's backup dancers appeared to be shot dead.
"Her dancers were circling around her and one by one, they fell to the ground, and there were red lights underneath them. And that was supposed to symbolize cops killing black individuals," Earhardt said.
Giuliani responded to Earhardt that she was "asking the wrong person" about the performance.
"[I] had five uncles who were police officers, two cousins who were, 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. And I saved more black lives than any of those people you saw on stage by reducing crime and particularly homicide by 75 percent," said Giuliani, a vocal Donald Trump surrogate.
"Of which ... maybe 4,000 or 5,000 were African-American young people who are alive today because of the policies I put in effect that weren't in effect for 35 years," he added. "So if you're going to do that, then you should symbolize why the police officers are in the neighborhoods and what are you going to go about it? To me it's two easy answers: a much better education and good job, and what the heck have you done like in Baltimore, when they all stood in Baltimore.
"I was sick when I saw all the politicians sitting, standing in Baltimore after the police situation and saying, nobody's done anything for this community in 50 years. Well, that is a heck of a thing to say, because they've been in charge for 50 years. And they have failed the community. I didn't fail Harlem," he continued.
"I turned Harlem around. I didn't fail Bedford-Stuyvesant, I turned it around. Go there now. Go walk in Harlem. Then flash back to 25 years ago and go to Harlem before I was mayor, and one was a place where crime was rampant and no national stores and now there's a thriving community in Harlem."
"It's a shame," Giuliani added. "It's a shame."
This isn't Giuliani's first critique of a Beyonce performance. He called her halftime show during this year's Super Bowl — one that was an ode to the Black Lives Matter movement — "outrageous" and a way for her to "attack police officers."