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Posted on 06/03/2020 10:50:04 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
uthorities in Philadelphia on Wednesday removed a statue of former Mayor and Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, days after demonstrators tried to topple the monument.
Mayor Jim Kenney ordered city crews to remove the statue from Thomas Paine Plaza, near Philadelphia City Hall, in the early morning hours Wednesday.
Demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, a death that has spurred hundreds of peaceful and violent rallies nationwide over the past week, damaged and attempted to set fire to the 10-foot-tall bronze statue last weekend.
Rizzo served two terms as Philadelphia mayor in the 1970s after spending three years as police commissioner. He was praised by many for his firm stance on crime, but critics see him as a national symbol of police violence and prejudice against African Americans.
Rizzo was mayor of Philadelphia between 1972 and 1980 but, despite efforts to change it, was barred by law from a third consecutive term. He later earned scorn from fellow Democrats when he switched to the Republican Party in 1986 and won the GOP nomination for a new term as mayor in 1991, but died of a heart attack at age 70 before the election.
The statue, erected in 1998, was removed with a crane and lowered onto a flatbed truck as National Guardsmen stood nearby to enforce an overnight curfew.
The statue, which has been vandalized over the years, was already set to be moved next year. It will now be placed in storage until officials determine what to do with it.
"The statue is a deplorable monument to racism, bigotry, and police brutality for members of the Black community," Kenney said. "The treatment of these communities under Mr. Rizzo's leadership was among the worst periods in Philadelphia's history."
Wow, Violence and Hate really does work.
Frank Rizzo from the Jerky Boys? He was the best!
Will the Rocky statue be next?
Frank Rizzo is a tough as nails ex cop
the new guy Kenny is a total BLM pussy
Philly now from top to bottom is run by black lives matter activist and so you can expect the entire city to be destroyed and none of these idiots will do anything it’s the brethren
And because of that GOP nomination stunt all of the coverage is going to claim that he was a Republican.
Despite that during his whole time in office he was a Democrat.
Hard to believe they put up a statue of Frank Rizzo in the first place.
Mayor Kenney, you should practice coprophagia and suffer the consequences. (Using my new vocabulary word so I remember it.)
I was afraid something like this was in the back of their minds when the first monument was desecrated.
The plaza, named for a man who incited slave owners to perpetrate gun violence, will undoubtedly be renamed soon.
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This will incense some of you.
He switched parties after his two terms and ran as a Republican to unsuccessfully reclaim his office.
“I”M FRANK RIZZO TOUGH GUY!!”
That’s fine don’t reply there Sizzle Chest!
Lol...Darwin award candidates.
America needs you, Frank Rizzo. My God, just think of what an idiot Larry Krasner is.
Rizzo had the Black Panthers strip searched when they tried to demonstrate in Philadelphia.
They were left naked in the street without their clothes.
They never came back to Philadelphia again.
Yeah, the black mayor who bombed black
cultists, he loved everyone
While you’re at Phili, keep Thomas Paine out o’ your mouth. Rename the plaza, for you are a disgrace to his name.
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