Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giulani called Beyonce's 15-minute-long MTV Video Music Awards performance a 'shame' for its imagery of cops killing black people.

'I ran the largest and best police department in the world, the New York City Police Department,' Giuliani noted this morning on Fox & Friends. 'And I saved more black lives than any of those people you saw on stage by reducing crime and particularly homicide by 75 percent.'

Giuliani previously had taken offense to Beyonce's Super Bowl performance of 'Formation,' which he called 'outrageous' and an 'attack' on police officers for its Black Lives Matter message and Black Panther Party look.

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani called Beyonce's 'Lemonade' performance a 'shame,'upon hearing about some of the 'Black Lives Matter' imagery

Rudy Giuliani (left) suggested that he 'saved more black lives' than any of the people on stage by reducing crime in New York City

Pop star Beyonce performed for 15 minutes at last night's MTV Video Music Awards and, like her Super Bowl performance, made the show political

But last night's performance was even more pronounced as 'Fox & Friends' host Ainsley Earhardt explained.

She told Giuliani that Beyonce's 'dancers were circling around her and one by one, they feel to the ground, and there were red lights underneath them.'

'And that was supposed to symbolize cops killing black individuals,' Earhardt added.

Beyonce also arrived at the annual awards show with the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Mike Brown and Oscar Grant – all young black men whose lives were snuffed out by police officers – in tow, in case her message of 'Black Lives Matter' was lost on anyone.

Giuliani, who has become one of Donald Trump's main surrogates in recent weeks, was not impressed.

As each 'angel' fell to the floor they were covered in red light, in protest of gun death and police brutality

Beyonce's back-up dancers were 'shot' one by one, falling to the floor in angel costumes, as she paid respects to black men killed in police shootings

Beyoncé posed for pictures with Sybrina Fulton (second left), Gwen Carr (left), Lesley McSpadden (second right), and Wanda Johnson (right) - the mothers of Martin, Garner, Brown and Grant respectively

'You're asking the wrong person because I had five uncles who were police officers, two cousins who were, one who died in the line of duty,' Giuliani began.

Giuliani figured the crime reduction of 75 percent accounted for 'maybe 4,000 or 5,000' African-American young people 'who are still alive today because of the policies I put in effect that weren't in effect for 35 years.'

'So, if you’re going to do that, then you also should also symbolize why the police officers are in those neighborhoods and what are you going to do about that and what are you doing about it?' Giuliani said.

'Are you, to me it’s two easy answers: a much better education and a 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 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,' Giuliani continued.

He was referencing the unrest following the death of Freddy Gray.

Turning to his hometown of New York, where the VMAs were held this year, he noted that during his mayorship he 'didn't fail Harlem,' nor did he 'fail' Bedford-Stuyvesant.

'I turned it around, go there now, go walk in Harlem and 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,' Giuliani said.

Host Brian Kilmeade then pointed out that 'Beyonce is an extremely popular and powerful performer, and when she does stuff like that, that message to the next generation is pretty indelible.'