Rudy Giuliani: 'Completely Outrageous' to Call Garner Death Racism

It was "completely outrageous" to say racism was at play in the death of Eric Garner, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told "Fox & Friends."

There were two reasons that proved race was not involved when Garner died last July in Staten Island as police officer Daniel Pantaleo used a chokehold while trying to arrest him, Giuliani maintained — a black sergeant at the scene, and that any suspect under similar circumstances would have been treated the same.

"The part of this that is completely outrageous are the statements that make this a racial incident, when without any doubt this was not a racial incident. The presence of the black sergeant proves that, and the fact that if another man that size resisted arrest, the same thing would have happened," Giuliani, a Republican, said Thursday.

Protests in New York City and across the country followed Wednesday's announcement by a grand jury that Pantaleo would not be indicted in Garner's death.