September 11th Reminds Skeptics of Rudy Guiliani as Mayor

As New York City is engulfed in Patriot Day, the holiday given to commemorate the 9/11 attacks six years ago, its former mayor is under question. Rudy Giuliani, the city's mayor on September 11, 2001, has been criticized for using how he handled his mayoral position after the attacks for his campaign to be the Republican Party's presidential nominee.

In 2001, Guiliani became the posterboy of America's greatest tragedy. We worked very well with the New York Police Department and Fire Department, which became heroes to the American public. For the months following the September 11th attacks, New York City news became national headlines, and Guiliani was at the forefront.

Post 9/11 coverage overshadowed Giuliani's politics prior to the attacks. Many minorities in New York City were livid about his treatment of people of color, specifically Amadou Diallo, a man of African descent who was shot 19 times by New York cops in 1999 while picking up his wallet, and Adner Louima, a Haitian who was beaten and sodomized by New York police officers in 1997.

Many think he used to increased media attention and favor of his local police and fire departments to catapult himself in line for a higher office. With that office now being the President of the United States, the highest position in the country, the general public has been questioning his motives behind his approach to 9/11 and his position after the terrorist attacks.

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