[Vigilanteman]

Thanks for the correction. However, I clearly remember that Rizzo was the one who got blamed. Maybe it was "the atmosphere he created while he was mayor" or some other PC nonsense.

You know, sort of like Bush crated the ObaMao recession and OaMao created the Trump boom.

[NFHale]

Rizzo had been out of office for several years at that point; prior to Wilson Goode, there was Mayor Bill Green 1980-1984, who was the mayor immediately after Rizzo.

Greene declined to run for re-election, and Wilson Goode replaced Bill Greene.

As for blaming Rizzo... I’ll just say this: when Rizzo was mayor, I never had to escort my grandmother to the supermarket with a baseball bat. He was a good guy and he loved his city and his people.

[Albion Wilde]

I clearly remember that Rizzo was the one who got blamed.

I ived there and had close ties with a number of City officials including the prosecuting District Attorney on the MOVE case, and don't remember it that way. I think Rizzo just got dumped on for everything by blacks, but Rizzo had stopped being Police Commissioner in 1971 (Sambor and Armstrong were PC in 1985, the year of the firebombing) and ended his term as mayor five years prevously in 1980. But he was long-hated by the left for supposed police brutality against blacks.

Given today's situation with fake news, I wonder what the truth of it really was.