Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo versus KYW-TV News Anchorman Stan Bohrman 11-10-1980
Statue of former police commissioner Frank Rizzo officially removed in Philly after days of defacement by protesters.
FOX: The 10-foot-tall bronze statue of controversial former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo was removed from the front steps of the Municipal Services Building in Center City early Wednesday morning after days of being defaced and graffitied by protesters.
Rizzo, who was also the police commissioner of the city, was lauded as a tough on crime mayor, but his critics opposed him for allegedly being discriminatory against minorities.
For days, protesters participating in demonstrations seeking justice for George Floyd congregated at the statue, with some people spray painting and vandalizing the effigy, which was donated to the city in 1998 after Rizzo died.
“The continued display of the statue has understandably enraged and hurt many Philadelphians, including those protesting the heinous murders of George Floyd and too many others,” the city’s Mayor Jim Kenney said on Wednesday. “I have seen and heard their anguish. This statue now no longer stands in front of a building that serves all Philadelphians.”
Controversy over the statue predated the protests, however, and Kenney had previously promised to have it removed and relocated by 2021. more
That was a great video. A bunch of crumb bums. Yellow cowards, creeps tried to harass a private citizen and Mayor Rizzo would put up with none of it. We need leaders like that but now it’s crumb bums and yellow cowards running the city
And the yellow coward crumb bum denied he has a drinking problem. Media ALWAYS lie so we had an admission of guilt on the air
At least he didn’t call him a lying dog face pony soldier before he took him and his corn pop camera crew behind the gymnasium and showed him what for. *hikes up pants. Shakes fists*
Just watched Nick Depaolo on YouTube play this recording. Priceless.
I can’t recommend Depaolo for analysis and commentary on these troubling times. I mean if the major cities of this nation are going to be pulled down by democrats at least I can laugh like a mad person while it happens.
I’m all for the rights of reporters getting to question people, but dude was walking his dog in front of his own house and that guy was practically standing close enough to wear the mayor’s coat. After the 3rd or 7th leave me alone, leave the person alone.
Personally, I thought that since Rizzo was a democrat, the video was a tribute to real – non-partisan – reporting. Now, maybe there is more to this story or to him personally that I don’t know, but it was an example of the way the press used to be – and a glaring contrast to how the bought and paid for “press” are today
The leftist Taliban destroy all references to history. History is history.
Imam Blackface Coonman Northam showed it today. Of course, his personal history is shameful.
Robert E Lee was an honorable man.
Mr. Pinko un-pixelated?….
Hands up, don’t shoot. Look ya crumb bum, I’ll take all treeofyaz out back and whip your ass. Now get out of here ya lush. That’s how real men used to deal with disputes v hiding behind masks, tossing a Molotov and running away.
It’s being looked at in Internal Affairs. Where have I heard that one before?
I miss the days before MSM ass kissing.
President Trump would approve.
Thanks Frank!
MOVE gets ‘removed’ from Philly, 1985.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvEzA8aUJoU
Rizzo did have a way with words. His biographer quotes him in a comment about a group of demonstrators protesting police brutality (arguably with some justification) as saying
Side note about Rizzo:
He’d been a Dem his whole adult life until he switched to Rep in order to run against Dem mayor Wilson Goode (of MOVE bombing infamy) who had primaried him four years earlier.
@Horatio Prim — Wasn’t it Wilson Goode who bombed the crap out of MOVE and ended up burning down four city blocks? Rizzo was mayor before and after Goode’s tenure.
Hey Uncle A you are probably right as usual…me bad.
But that said, I think it was four ‘squared’ blocks just for blast and fire after that.
Things don’t work in a ‘linear’ way there, in Philly or any other urban center now.
Poof!
That was great MJ.
won’t be long before they’re torching Ben Franklin … book on it
“Crumb Bum”. LOL! Haven’t heard that in years. One of my Uncle’s favorite term for lazy people.
I had the pleasure of being in Philly media for 40+ years. Rizzo hated criminals of all races, but as Mayor, he especially protected law-abiding minorities from their lawless bro’s. This gave folks the impression he was racist. He was brutal, but he was anything but racist. He understood the motivation of Black on White crime, but he never understood, nor tolerated Black on Black crime.
Francis Lazarro Rizzo was a dying breed of Law & Order.
Rizzo and Philly are both dead as door nails.
@ Uncle Al
“I’ll make Attila the Hun look like a faggot.”
No need to Frank, we’ve got the latter as Mayor today.
Why did that remind me of Ralph Kramden?
Interesting history – https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=iba&hsimp=yhs-1&p=frank%20rizzo%20mayor&type=w2pr_5056_CHW_US¶m1=RypDRDjp20T5Vc76fVk9yA%3D%3D¶m2=9dUI1n2R0BLDxNuWfiP4aSFOTltNdSPoIx38%2BUf%2FiXqfF4kD4XxJOATyQUWX0Ft173tStCOJqL%2Foky5u2BPHOf95UibvE0AMrXliUiGcXIK%2FU1ejM7tFfEr%2B3MaCmMXgfConoLLWHrJeU%2FnQWZ5eEzNTOc4u0No0evdxfhTjeaqEXiUtiLk7z1UERHnxYRxHlrrIr0pYTXSFgaKj6EcgYuBwKqOL%2BasSQLl2X%2BkGZFTK5BYtfGo2%2FfBtyAN7evi5eZQ7zVjVYtehAx3yffJhlhUOI4N%2BQ7k7fTBPk70KYLk%3D¶m3=NwVEMR%2FzKcG52XsVBYEh2%2FSF8lWp6hzCFzOIS1SMaXPFPvX6njevUNtxYyc1s89nuNL26iJ3IEDj%2Bj5zYW7TWlCg96hIBphmEErnV%2BtVm0W0H%2BjZL2xkt78dD3RczQVMBvRiUN%2BuSPLsdeB59RkAf9j0WjTZHwW3FzLUBQ1EdsXWFsnv%2BaNr1cyrCyXL92ctuCPx%2BfhBPPmUFMddxyJ3QQ%3D%3D¶m4=w9HwJeXtuqO7yIV%2BaFq3EU6%2F%2BIgM01iHfdMXzMllJno%3D
Wish we had reporters like that in our big cities nowadays.
So is that reporter Shepard Smith’s father?