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How Frank Rizzo, a high school dropout, became Philadelphia’s toughest cop and a harbinger of MAGA politic
The Conversation ^ | 09/05/2025 | Fritz Holznagel

Posted on 09/10/2025 9:32:55 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

In August 2025, the city of Philadelphia agreed to return a statue of Frank Rizzo to the supporters that commissioned the memorial in 1992.

The 2,000-pound bronze tribute to the former police commissioner-turned-mayor had stood in front of the city’s Municipal Services Building from 1998 until 2020, when then-mayor Jim Kenney ordered it removed days after protesters attempted to topple it during the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd. ---SNIP---

Like Rizzo, Trump’s appeal is more social and cultural than economic. Critics have argued that Trump’s promotion of traditional Republican economic policies belie the notion that he is a populist. Trump’s populism, however, lies not in his ability to deliver working-class prosperity, but conservative victories in the nation’s long-standing culture wars

(Excerpt) Read more at theconversation.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: fakenews; ratsorizzo; rizzovgoode; smear; smearjob; thethinbluelie

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1 posted on 09/10/2025 9:32:55 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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2 posted on 09/10/2025 9:43:06 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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Who got murdered? not George Floyd, he overdosed himself.


3 posted on 09/10/2025 9:50:49 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with riminalNixon?)
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To: HYPOCRACY

This is Rizzo....Frank Rizzzo! Open your ears jackass!


4 posted on 09/10/2025 9:54:31 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Don't worry,pray.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Frank Rizzo left the Democratic Party. There was a time when the Democratic Party had a lot of patriots.


5 posted on 09/10/2025 9:55:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“””protests that followed the murder of George Floyd.”””

Murdered by fentanyl. And all the other drugs he had stuffed into his body that day.


6 posted on 09/10/2025 9:57:07 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Kid Shelleen

Rizzo Forever.


7 posted on 09/10/2025 9:57:52 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: 4yearlurker

This is Sol Rosenberg, I’ll bring my shoes and glasses with me so I’ll have them...


8 posted on 09/10/2025 10:07:52 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I’ve been saying for a while that we need to elect people who are the second coming of Frank Rizzo. The crap going on in our cities would stop dead.


9 posted on 09/10/2025 10:32:06 AM PDT by Windcatcher
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I’ve been saying for a while that we need to elect people who are the second coming of Frank Rizzo

He also had strong support from his South Philly homies. Things were taken care of.

10 posted on 09/10/2025 10:37:48 AM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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11 posted on 09/10/2025 10:51:59 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Some Frank Rizzo quotes:

"I'm so tough I make Attila the Hun look like a faggot"

"The Philadelphia Police Department could invade Cuba and win"

12 posted on 09/10/2025 11:54:18 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I'm a white male, and guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere!)
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To: Prov1322

Ping!


13 posted on 09/10/2025 2:53:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (RIP, Charlie. Say hi to Andrew Breitbart...you were of the same caliber. Justice for Charlie Kirk!)
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I used to love it when you’d be sitting in an Italian restaurant, such as Nostalgia, and Frank Rizzo would walk in and shake hands with all us regular folks, table to table. Oh, and the Sarcone’s bread...


14 posted on 09/10/2025 2:55:41 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (RIP, Charlie. Say hi to Andrew Breitbart...you were of the same caliber. Justice for Charlie Kirk!)
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To: Albion Wilde

Now your making me hungry.


15 posted on 09/10/2025 3:36:27 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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