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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Why on earth would you post this?
What’s the point?
(Not a criticism,just curious as to the reason)
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” Can you imagine any mayor (or any politician) saying that today!”
Arpaio tweaks Obama/Holder in public all the time, and often with hilarious results.
Many italian-Americans here are conservative.
So am I :) .
Good on ya!
Remember him well.
Philly was a vastly different and better place.
FRANKIE MUTHAF***A!!!
If is was possible to attach files here, I’d attach the pic of the huge mural of FRANKIE in PHI that I took.
The guy’s a hero to me.
Ping to 47.
He had his moments for sure...
The Cops were different then, too.
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:^)
Hizzoner Da Mayor
Yeah! Both me & Khent like “FRANKIE”.
Nostalgia. I knew him and i miss him.
Ey? What article, you say? Ey? Margaret, is that you? Did you put the cat out? Is Bossy in the barn? Ey?
I kept thinking that Arizona had to be dead. He led Philadephia through some very tough times. It was a period of growth and rehabilitation for the inner city but also a period of the Black Psnthers.
I Remembervthose going to the art museum with my friends for the day and waiting on a bench by the parkway for my frien’s father to pick us up. I looked over at a new condo building that was nearing completion, right across from the museum. It had a big sign advertising the apartments for “discriminating buyers”. I still laugh about that sign.
Wilson (Worthless) Good and Chief Sambor Foxtrot Uniform.
The radical group also happened to be terrorizing a respectable black neighborhood.
Here's what the NYT said about it. Bear in mind that the NYT HATED Frank Rizzo, as they do all those they presume to be working class Catholic Leaders. Women, Children, and Minority Groups to Suffer Most in Philadelphia Tragedy
Rizzo Mural
THAT’S IT!!! YES!!!
Are you this racist when others know your name...or only when you can be anonymous about it?
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