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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Better times.
The “apology nazis” are a pet peeve of mine, the positively mild , innocuous statements that are considered “offensive” nowadays, ugh.
Thank goodness for Internet anonymity so one can speak one’s mind without being persecuted.
I want my hoverboard and Cubs WS win!!!
Mayor Cermak’s dead, too.
Tough couple of days for Chicago, I tell ya!
BTW, is Rizzo the guy who ordered a bomb dropped on a house that some radical group had holed up in? Or was that someone else? (I’m too lazy to Google, sorry).
i wasn’t fooled; it’s nostalgia
You were the foolER, unintentionally though of course. ;d
Thanks for posting this.
No, that was Wilson Goode, first black mayor of Philadelphia.
Is their any connection between this and the Alzheimer’s article you posted just before this one?
Gotta love that!
Blacks have ruined Philly. They’ve also ruined Upper Darby,and are expanding to ruin other formerly nice blue collar neighborhoods. They are a plague.
Frank Rizzo? Isn’t that the guy from the Jerky Boys tapes?
While Rizzo had absolutely no patience with race-baiters, he was popular in black neighborhoods because he kept thuggery down and the PPD often received instructions like , "I want to see their goddam teeth in the street .... those are your instructions."
And as popular as he was among the good people the 'hood, black police officers performed brilliantly for him because they knew Rizzo "had their backs" when Philadelphia's Liberals invariably complained about "police brutality."
The NYT will also never tell you about Rizzo's work in WWII. Or that Philadelphis was a very livable city before Wilson Good, whose only talent was his ability to display melanin.
The same guy...
the infowarrior
The same guy...
the infowarrior
Wasn't Rizzo already out of office by then?
He’s dead again, Jim.
” While Rizzo had absolutely no patience with race-baiters, he was popular in black neighborhoods because he kept thuggery down and the PPD often received instructions like , “I want to see their goddam teeth in the street .... those are your instructions.” “
Perfect.....reminds me of my Sheriff Joe : )
Can you imagine any mayor (or any politician) saying that today!
Interesting that they’re both of eye-talian extraction.
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