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.
RE MOVE:
They were a bunch of black commie assholes that harrassed every person that walked past their “compound”.
RE “supposed police brutality against blacks. “
Most of which was brought on by their own attitudes.
Like I said... when he was mayor, I didn’t have to escort my grandmother to the supermarket with a baseball bat.