Former New York City Mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani believes first-degree murder charges are appropriate for the cop who knelt on the neck of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

According to Fox News:

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told “Bill Hemmer Reports” Monday that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin be charged with first-degree murder if officials conclude that George Floyd died of asphyxiation on May 25.

“He had that man down there for about eight minutes,” Giuliani told host Bill Hemmer. “I counted five times [where Chauvin] was warned that he might be killing him [Floyd]. That’s a lot of warning. That’s a lot of intent.

“Every single time he [Chauvin] was told, ‘He’s not breathing,’ he had a chance to reflect and decide, ‘Am I going to continue to have him not breathing … or am I going to stop?’ Four, five times, he made the decision to do that. That’s a lot of intent. That’s just as good as premeditation the day before.”

On Monday, Floyd’s family released an independent autopsy report that stated Floyd died of asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain. Preliminary results from the official autopsy, which were included in a criminal complaint against Chauvin filed Friday, said officials had found nothing “to support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.

Giuliani also slammed liberal mayors for the violence. Stating that arresting the troublemakers would have limited the unrest to one day.