As protestors across the country topple and deface Confederate monuments, Philadelphia is finally removing a long reviled statue for a man whose racism overtook the city only decades ago: Frank Rizzo.
, Philadelphia is finally removing a long reviled statue for a man whose racism overtook the city only decades ago: Frank Rizzo.The statue of former police commissioner Frank Rizzo, which stood outside the municipal services building in Center City since the late 1990s, was finally removed on Wednesday morning after being vandalized by protestors. “I believe this is the beginning of the healing process of our city,” Mayor Jim Kenney said in a press conference, the.
The statue was apparently already supposed to be removed and destroyed in 2021, but its removal was a long time coming. Rizzo served as police commissioner in the late 1960s and ’70s, eventually serving as Philadelphia mayor from 1972 to 1980. As commissioner he was a blatant racist,
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