Posted on 02/16/2015 11:00:28 PM PST by Reverend Saltine
Famous "Night-Stick in Cumerbund Shot"
Mr. Rizzo was one of those seemingly larger-than-life figures, destined to be hero to some and villain to others. One view was that the former Police Commissioner and two-term Mayor was the last bastion against threats to middle-class residents of the city's row-house neighborhoods. The other view was that Mr. Rizzo was a barely educated former police officer who used a hard line on crime and tactics bordering on the dictatorial to suppress opposition and keep blacks out of middle-class neighborhoods. 'Tough Cop' Image That he was a "tough cop" -- an appellation that particularly pleased him -- no one debates. One night during the upheavals of the 1960's, Commissioner Rizzo left a black-tie affair, tucked a nightstick in his cummerbund, and led what he called "my men, my army" to break up a riot. As Mayor, from 1972 to 1980, he was warm and generous with friends and associates but given to sudden rages in the presence of others. When, in 1983, Mr. Rizzo made his first attempt to return to City Hall, he saw the need to cast himself as the "new Rizzo," avoiding racially divisive statements. He was defeated in the Democratic primary by W. Wilson Goode, who went on to win election as the city's first black Mayor. Throughout his career, Mr. Rizzo seemed to embrace controversy. "I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot," he once told a newspaper reporter.
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RIP
Did he die again? In 2015? Is that it?
So, ahem, timely. This really ought to be in breaking news.
Oh wait, he died a long a*s time ago. ;p LOL
RIP anyway.
;) I’m busting a gut!
He died right around my half-sister’s wedding... 24 years ago. =8-0
Rissoles had to be more than 70. That would have made 20 years old in sixty four, 26 in seventy when the Black Panthers were getting started. Unjust can’t see it. He had to be older.
So, this is just an old article?
Look at the date of the article. Like me, you’ve been fooled!
And now, decades later, they act like Attila the Hun.
Same here, FRiend! When I first saw this, I thought he aged pretty well for a 95 year old fella. And in other news, I hear that Fransisco Franco is also not longer with us. :)
They could use a guy like Franco over in Greece right about now.
He’d have turned 95 this year. His son, Frank, Jr., turns 72 in a couple weeks.
Wait..what? Am I having a flashback? I left Philly in ‘87, but it keeps haunting me. Papa Rizzo was the king when I was growing up. Philly was nice back then.
Great job, McFly.
Mr. Fusion was still hasn’t been invented...
That is a hell of a quote.
It’s amazing what a pol could say before fascistic-Stalinist political correctness.
How I miss the days of free speech.
Don't be silly.
Breaking News is preoccupied with the passing of Hizzoner Richard J. Daley.
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