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Havent seen much by the Libturd media reporting on the horrific violent rioting in Philly??
Why is it that more white people are killed by cops, but zero riots when they are killed? Media fueled and approved rioting??
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/10/28/philadelphia-protest-riot-looting-aramingo-avenue-port-richmond-continues-2nd-night-fatal-police-shooting-walter-wallace/
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Yeah more blatant media censorship.. Nothing to see here...
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Slavery reparations.
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Not only that, 93% of Black murder victims are murdered by other Blacks, where only 0.77% of Black people killed by White people, and that includes all of the shootings of armed Black men shot by the police. I suspect that probably 90% of those deaths of Black people by White people are probably in self-defense.
So for the Jewish-controlled media to assert that White people are somehow hunting down and shooting or killing innocent Black men is just straight up absurd. It's not only a lie - it's the complete opposite of the truth, given that White people are overwhelmingly targeted, attacked, and killed by Black people than the number of Blacks killed by Whites.
The Jewish-controlled media is pushing a narrative that is literally delusional.
Look at the first chart to see just how delusional it is to talk about Black people killed by White people, lol! It's like a full cultural movement/revolution complaining about women raping men. ANY sane person should be like "Are the people promoting this stuff INSANE?" White people are OVERWHELMINGLY targeted more by Black people than the reverse! It's not even close! It's not even comparable! It IS, as said, like saying that women commit most rapes and sexual assaults, and that men are the victims. It just blows my mind that there are ANY White people who still possibly support this, as if spending 7 seconds online searching for the information below is too much work for them.
As for the second attached image - just because a Black person is "unarmed" doesn't mean that the police shooting that they were involved in wasn't completely justifiable. The reality of the matter is that Black people attack or otherwise pose a threat to the safety of police officers without necessarily being armed with a weapon. And Indigenous former friend of mine got arrested - and convicted - of committing armed robbery at a pharmacy because he pulled his shirt sleeve up and pretended that he had a hidden weapon under his sleeve. So he was convicted of armed robbery for literally using his arm as a weapon.
But you will NEVER hear the Jewish-controlled media in the West say any of this, or EVER put these cases in context, because the ONLY agenda they are interested in promoting/advancing is that White people are evil and the scourge of the earth, and are the singular [and only] cause of all the suffering of non-White races.
Even if that complete BULL was true, it begs the question: WHY DO NON-WHITE PEOPLE KEEP STREAMING INTO WHITE/WESTERN COUNTRIES BY THE MILLIONS EACH YEAR, LITERALLY RISKING THEIR LIVES IN THE PROCESS IN SOME CASES? WHY do these people want to live AWAY - far, FAR away - from their own race, but live in the countries that have the highest concentration of White people present?
That is exactly the OPPOSITE of what the Jewish-controlled media is suggesting - according to the narratives they support and advance, White people are EVIL, and "oppress" non-Whites, and if that WERE true, then they should be promoting repatriating those non-White people back to the ancestral homelands, where THEIR races are in the majority, and where THEIR races sustain the institutions in those nations, including law enforcement, so that the innocent and perfect and glorious "people of colour" who can do no wrong, and are only the victims of the evil racism of all the rotten White people won't have to ever experience the evil rotten "racism" of White people, who somehow "oppress" them. That way, they can live far away from White people, and no longer have to face all the "oppression" that White people bring to their lives.
After all, wouldn't THAT be the humane thing to do?
But NOPE - the Jewish-controlled media keeps INSISTING on flooding White countries and only White countries with endless waves of non-White immigration, so that each passing 3-5 years, we see an even GREATER number of non-Whites wishing to overthrow the current socioeconomic and political status quo, and do everything they can to ensure that White people are pushing into extreme minority status to the point where Whites will be in the single digit percentage of current White/Western societies by 2150.
Gee, it's almost like maybe that's the point or something. ::)
Of course by then, Western society will look like a developing country, and non-Whites will have even WORSE lives being in a majority non-White country, just the way that non-Whites CURRENLY have worse lives when they live in majority non-White countries compared to the much higher quality of life, access to healthcare, access to education, access to social services, and stronger and less corrupt institutions to serve their interests and allow them to a much greater chance of achieving fair justice if they are ever on the wrong side of the law, and much better chance of preserving and maintaining their physical safety in White societies than they would have in their own societies.
And yet White people are never allowed to directly VOTE on whether or not we want these endless streams of non-White immigration to continue, as White people are accused of all problems facing non-White people, to do something to push back on the increasingly violent and increasingly unstable nature of the USA and Western society in general because of this endless immigration, and the fact that non-Whites are blamed for every woe facing non-Whites, and the ethnic aliens who control our media continue to agitate, to make as many non-Whites hate Whites as possible and want to accelerate their demographic decline, while increasing mass immigration of non-White people into the USA and other White/Western societies at the highest rate possibles.
And they seriously expect that nothing will give, and that this agitation isn't getting so far out of hand, as if White people are supposed to let a one-sided race war go on and do absolutely nothing to fight back.
I'm sorry, but screw that. And it makes me happy to see so many strongly identified White males on Getbig who have NO FEAR in saying that, and standing up for their unique ethnic and racial interests, and aren't afraid of a word - "racist" - being used to shout them down. As if not being called "racist" is somehow better for White people overall than seeing multiple Democrat cities burnt to the ground, and billions of dollars of property damage ensue.
I am confident that will see an inflection point between now and 2030 where White people just collectively stop caring completely, no matter WHAT we are caused, and that the small minority of vocal "anti-racist" social justice Whites who try to keep the rest of us in line by guilt - and by attempting to destroy our personal economies by having us fired from our jobs - will grow even smaller, and will simply be completely ignored. At that point, I think they will realize that they have to make the choice of supporting their in-group [White people], or being on the side of the hodgepodge of "Oppression Olympics [Everyone Gets a Trophy]" welfare-grabbers who want nothing but endless amounts of free stuff, and who DO NOT care how "anti-racist" a White person is, because they - masses of them - think that White people are irredeemably racist, and don't want them on their side, regardless of how "anti-racist" they claim to be, or how much they "denounce their White Privilege", and blame White people for all of the problems facing Black people.
At that point, which I'm sure will happen by 2030 or, say, between 2030 to 2040 at the very latest, is when we will see White people band together as a group, not just in the USA, but throughout ALL of Western civilization, which will make it impossible for anyone to stop White people for standing up for their collective racial interests. Then it will be the most dominant race that ultimately ends up winning the ensuing riots/conflicts, or even race war or full-on civil war that ensues.
I don't want it to come to that, but what is the alternative? Are we supposed to change the laws that allow Black people to legally shoot at the police, and make it illegal for police officers to match lethal force with lethal force? Or should we allow Black men [like Rayshard Brooks, from Georgia] to pass out drunk in a Wendy's drive-thru and to punch out one cop, and to steal one of their tasers and shoot it at the head/face of the other cop [luckily, he missed], and for the police officer to shoot him in defense, when faced with lethal force, only for him to get fired for doing so?? Is THAT what the Black Lives Matter movement wants to change the law to, basically allowing Black men to get away with anything and everything, with any response or arrest being classified as "racist", and resulting in the police officers getting fired, for simply doing their jobs or, in some of these cases, literally defending themselves with lethal force, when facing lethal force?
I would LOVE for any of the BLM supporters to tell exactly what they expect society to tolerate from Black criminals in their brave new world. But...I think I already know. And I REFUSE to accept that.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, and to see how long it takes before White people put their feet down, and makes mass-arrests of Black criminals and other criminals of the BLM movement. Conversely...well...I don't even want to know what will happen if law enforcement doesn't put a stop to these degradation, violent decay, and filth.
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Mat canning a flesh and blood cannanite who were historically known as the phonecians were a race of sea faring warlords people who invented the modern alphabet we have today
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I'm in Philly and workout with serval cops. Same shit as riots in other cities... they've been told by the mayor and chief to stand down and let pavement apes take whatever they wanted. Didn't cops take an oath to protect property and the public? Just goes to show, most ppl will do anything they're told to maintain their gravy train; a paycheck, a pension and health care bennies.
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I'm in Philly and workout with serval cops. Same shit as riots in other cities... they've been told by the mayor and chief to stand down and let pavement apes take whatever they wanted. Didn't cops take an oath to protect property and the public? Just goes to show, most ppl will do anything they're told to maintain their gravy train; a paycheck, a pension and health care bennies.
Just can't believe it has come to this...
Why bend backwards for the pavement apes?
Being called racist? Big whup
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Just can't believe it has come to this...
Why bend backwards for the pavement apes?
Being called racist? Big whup
The entire system is totally corrupt from top to bottom. Integrity is sold to the highest bidder.
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&t=1s in 1985 they knew how to deal with this shit in philly.
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I'm in Philly and workout with serval cops. Same shit as riots in other cities... they've been told by the mayor and chief to stand down and let pavement apes take whatever they wanted. Didn't cops take an oath to protect property and the public? Just goes to show, most ppl will do anything they're told to maintain their gravy train; a paycheck, a pension and health care bennies.
Being a rookie cop means you have a year that you don't talk about your pension. After that that's all they talk about.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want that job - but they know who butters the bread and they see mayors come and go.
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One of my all-time favorite writers, Jim Goad, wrote a wonderful article on areas where blacks are supreme:
A Nation Cannot Live On Basketball and Rape Alone
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Many are aware of the “13/50” meme — the idea that 13% of the population commits 50% of the nation’s murders. But when you whittle it down to the fact that nearly all of the perps are young and male, it’s more like “4/50.”
What you hardly ever hear about is “64 to 1.” That’s the number I arrived at by crunching the numbers from FBI stats between 1996 and 2008. In raw numbers, black-on-white rapes outpace the inverse by a factor of around 11 to 1, but when you account for the fact that whites also outnumber blacks by about 5.5 to one, a white woman is 64 times more likely to be raped by a black man than a black woman is by a white man.
Only a nimrod would deny black excellency in the field of rape.
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Only an irredeemably jealous racist would deny blacks their rightful place as the intercontinental champeens of rape, basketball, and child-naming.
Problem is, a nation cannot live on basketball and rape alone. It’s easy to see and just as easy to admit. But white Americans seem determined to learn this simple lesson the hard way. So as I type this, I’m filled with racial hatred toward other whites.
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&t=1s in 1985 they knew how to deal with this shit in philly.
The bomb blew up, but it burned many houses with it. All connected row homes. I was at work and watched this live on the news as it was happening. The person who authorized all of this was mayor Wilson Goode... he was black.
What these vids do not mention is that the MOVE members were shooting at police with AR's and AK's. They were given weeks to surrender and come out of there... they did not.
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Pavement apes, that’s a good one.
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&t=1s in 1985 they knew how to deal with this shit in philly.
Move was a religion co-founded by Donald Grossman who changed his name to Donald Glassey. Grossman was an adjunct professor of sociology in Philly.
The police pulled a Branch Davidian on Move.
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Donald Grossman
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Inciter of Riots
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The bomb blew up, but it burned many houses with it. All connected row homes. I was at work and watched this live on the news as it was happening. The person who authorized all of this was mayor Wilson Goode... he was black.
What these vids do not mention is that the MOVE members were shooting at police with AR's and AK's. They were given weeks to surrender and come out of there... they did not.
The Brutal Legacy of Frank Rizzo, the Most Notorious Cop in Philadelphia History
The former police commissioner and mayor known to fellow cops as "The General" has been dead for decades, but Philadelphia is still grappling with his controversial, racially-tinged policies.
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By Jake Blumgart
October 22, 2015, 3:00pm
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FRANK RIZZO AS MAYOR IN 1977. PHOTO COURTESY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTER, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Say the name Frank Rizzo at any old-school dive bar in Philadelphia and you're liable to start a conversation. The former mayor and police commissioner who reigned through most of the 70s might be described as a "tough guy"—or maybe a "racist asshole."
Immediately recognizable from his hulking figure and spiffy threads, Rizzo traded on white working-class fears of the city's rising violent crime rate, and made no bones about his penchant for cracking heads.
"Just wait after November, you'll have a front row seat because I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a homo," he said of his enemies during his 1975 re-election bid.
On Wednesday, a two-hour recounting of his life (simply called Rizzo), based on a mostly friendly 1993 biography from ESPN writer Sal Paolantonio, opened after a run of sold-out previews. In the era of the Black Lives Matter movement and the April conflagration on the streets of Baltimore, a reexamination of the life of Philadelphia's most notorious former mayor and top cop makes sense. And even though Rizzo died in the early 90s, the city is still working its way out of the man's shadow when it comes to local policing.
The police of his day knew Rizzo as "The General," and he certainly cut a commanding figure: 6'2, 250 pounds, a 19-and-a-half inch neck (Mike Tyson, for comparison, is a 20-and-a-half). You might say his appeal was a bit like that of Donald Trump: Rizzo fashioned himself as a tough decision-maker who said what he meant, tact be damned. "[The Black Panthers] should be strung up," he once said after ordering raids on the group's offices throughout Philly. "I mean, within the law. This is actual warfare." Rizzo seemed to lean on cops as an instrument for heading off social change in a city being seismically altered by capital flight, and rising poverty. His imposing frame and brash aphorisms symbolized security.
"When Frank Rizzo walked into a neighborhood, people felt safe," remembers Michael Chitwood, a former Philly cop who served throughout Rizzo's years in power and is now Superintendent of Police in neighboring Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. "If there was an incident, Frank Rizzo was out front leading the charge. He was a combination of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. If he told you to go through a door, you wouldn't hesitate."
"Take Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, the guy in Staten Island, and you put all that shit in one city."—Michael Simmons
Rizzo joined the Philadelphia Police Department in 1943 and would go on to embrace hard-charging tactics, like raiding beatnik and gay hangouts in the 1950s. Nearly anything was justified to get a suspect in cuffs, no matter their race. But African-Americans were some of the poorest residents of the city, and that grim reality set the groundwork for Rizzo's turbulent relations with people of color, which were locked in place by a series of high-profile incidents in the 1960s.
Like plenty of American lawmen in that era, Rizzo didn't seem able, or willing, to differentiate between activism and criminality. In 1966, he organized four squads of shotgun-touting cops to raid offices and an apartment associated with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Philly, turning up two and a half sticks of dynamite. (SNCC activists claimed then, and reiterate today, that the explosives were planted by an informant.) In 1967, after being appointed police commissioner, Rizzo led a phalanx of officers to a school administration building where a crowd of students was protesting in favor of a black history curriculum. What happened next is in dispute, or at least the precise wording is: Local newspapers reported that Rizzo told cops, whom he suggested were being attacked, to "get their black asses."
The results were brutal, with dozens of students beaten in what observers described as a police riot. "A cop chased two black girls right outside of the window of the administration building where we were looking out," the school district's then-public relations manager remembered years later, "and just proceeded to beat the crap out of them with a nightstick." These incidents solidified Rizzo's reputation, along with a 1970 raid against the Black Panther offices that ended with the men being strip-searched before newspaper photographers. In 1967, his approval rating stood at 84 percent, suggesting both blacks and whites were OK with him; after the showdown at the school, letters to the Philadelphia Inquirer were two to one in favor of Rizzo, while letters to the African-American paper, the Tribune, were three to one against. Still, his popularity among white voters secured the police department plenty of resources: The number of city cops went from 7,000 to 9,000 during his commissionership and the budget jumped from $60 million to $100 million.
As both a police official and mayor, Rizzo traded in the kind of tough-on-crime politics that evoked a vision of society beset by shadowy figures of monstrous criminality and radicalism—concepts that often bled together in his narratives. In the face of these existential threats, the forces of law and order were justified in responding with extreme prejudice: More officers, scarier guns, bigger prisons, and stiffer sentences. "If the prisons are crowded, if we need more prisons, let's build them," Rizzo said in 1968, 20 years before George HW Bush used awfully similar language as he ramped up mass incarceration. "Most of these hardened criminals are beyond rehabilitation… They are being pampered," Rizzo added. A decade later, he bragged on national television that the department's armory had grown from a mere six shotguns when he took over as commissioner: "Now we're equipped to fight wars. We could invade Cuba and win."
After he became mayor in 1972, the Philly police department's budget climbed steadily, and in negotiations, Rizzo granted cops pay hikes and extremely generous pension plans that allowed many to retire with full benefits after 25 years. Such benefits might be easier to bear with a larger tax pool, but in a city with a shrinking population and tax base, allowing thousands of officers to retire at early at age 45 proved a heavy burden. A few years ago, Philadelphia Magazine estimated that thanks to pension requirements negotiated under Rizzo and his predecessor, James Tate, 12,000 retired officers and their beneficiaries are owed today between $1.2 and $1.7 million each.
"Rizzo kidnapped the fucking city, that's what he really did." —Larry Krasner
Meanwhile, Rizzo retained absolute control over the police department. He appointed a new commissioner, but officers who needed favors or help with a problem still knew who to go to. "When I was in trouble, I circumvented the whole world and went right to the Mayor's Office," remembers Chitwood, who was among the subjects of a Philadelphia Inquirer investigation into pervasive brutality in the department. "It was still Rizzo's police department. I went to Rizzo, and said, 'Look, I don't want to lose my job.' And Rizzo said to me, his exact words were, 'As long as I'm mayor, you'll have a job.'"
Critics are still fuming about how the police department under Rizzo was deeply politicized. "Rizzo was responsible for a lot of police frame-ups," alleges Hakim Anderson, a former SNCC activist, who recalls being arrested 17 times in a three-month period. "About every other week I was being picked up for something. They were frame-ups, never any convictions for any of the charges." Radical activists weren't the only targets: Philly police were used to intimidate Rizzo's establishment political opponents too, according to the 1977 book The Cop Who Would Be King , including the president of city council, the head of the local Democratic Party, and the superintendent of the school district.
As violent crime continued to rise, the police department reacted in kind. In 1979, the Department of Justice, in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, charged Rizzo and other city officials with allowing pervasive police abuse. They found that from 1970 to 1978, the police shot and killed 162 people. "The cops were just totally out of control," remembers Michael Simmons, an organizer with SNCC and a variety of other leftist groups who sat in at Rizzo's office to protest police brutality. "They were really beating and shooting African Americans and Puerto Ricans. It's like what's going on now, but it was all taking place in one city. Take Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, the guy in Staten Island, and you put all that shit in one city."
Rizzo's clout never stretched beyond Philadelphia, though: His higher aspirations were tarnished by a series of scandals, many linked to patronage or police brutality, and an enormous tax hike to pay for his largesse. He barely survived a recall effort and, even as his political base shrunk, tried a blatant racial appeal, encouraging residents to vote for a change in the city charter to let him serve a third consecutive term. "I'm asking white people, and blacks who think like me, to vote Frank Rizzo," he said. "I say vote white." (He lost the vote to change the term limit two to one.)
In many ways, Philadelphia is still living with Frank Rizzo's police force. Data from Governing shows that the city has the fifth highest police-officer-to-citizen ratio in the nation, and the pensions he negotiated with the police and firemen's unions remain a weight on the city's shaky finances. A report from the Department of Justice released this year found that between 2007 and 2013, the Philly police force killed people at a rate six times greater than their counterparts in New York; 81 percent of those killed were black. Scandals rock the department with disturbing regularity, but even if the commissioner wants to fire an officer, the arbitration system makes it all but impossible. The police department remains a hidebound and hugely powerful institution apart from the rest of Philadelphia, one that seems stuck in the 1970s.
"Rizzo kidnapped the fucking city, that's what he really did," says Larry Krasner, a civil rights attorney who frequently sues the police department over issues of brutality and corruption. "He said, 'We're cops and we're in charge of the money, the pensions, race relations,' and he took us to the bottom of the fucking ocean. He was the strong man who dispenses with niceties like laws and constitutional protections and just gets the job done. And we still have a police department that feels they can do pretty much whatever they want. And they're right about that."
Jake Blumgart is a reporter and editor based in Philadelphia. Follow him on Twitter.
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We need more Frank Rizzos/Matt Cannings/Frank Castigliones settling things in the world today.
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Just can't believe it has come to this...
Why bend backwards for the pavement apes?
Being called racist? Big whup
It's better than bending forward. :-X
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Replace police with rooftop Koreans.
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The Brutal Legacy of Frank Rizzo, the Most Notorious Cop in Philadelphia History
The former police commissioner and mayor known to fellow cops as "The General" has been dead for decades, but Philadelphia is still grappling with his controversial, racially-tinged policies.
JB
By Jake Blumgart
October 22, 2015, 3:00pm
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FRANK RIZZO AS MAYOR IN 1977. PHOTO COURTESY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTER, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Say the name Frank Rizzo at any old-school dive bar in Philadelphia and you're liable to start a conversation. The former mayor and police commissioner who reigned through most of the 70s might be described as a "tough guy"—or maybe a "racist asshole."
Immediately recognizable from his hulking figure and spiffy threads, Rizzo traded on white working-class fears of the city's rising violent crime rate, and made no bones about his penchant for cracking heads.
"Just wait after November, you'll have a front row seat because I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a homo," he said of his enemies during his 1975 re-election bid.
On Wednesday, a two-hour recounting of his life (simply called Rizzo), based on a mostly friendly 1993 biography from ESPN writer Sal Paolantonio, opened after a run of sold-out previews. In the era of the Black Lives Matter movement and the April conflagration on the streets of Baltimore, a reexamination of the life of Philadelphia's most notorious former mayor and top cop makes sense. And even though Rizzo died in the early 90s, the city is still working its way out of the man's shadow when it comes to local policing.
The police of his day knew Rizzo as "The General," and he certainly cut a commanding figure: 6'2, 250 pounds, a 19-and-a-half inch neck (Mike Tyson, for comparison, is a 20-and-a-half). You might say his appeal was a bit like that of Donald Trump: Rizzo fashioned himself as a tough decision-maker who said what he meant, tact be damned. "[The Black Panthers] should be strung up," he once said after ordering raids on the group's offices throughout Philly. "I mean, within the law. This is actual warfare." Rizzo seemed to lean on cops as an instrument for heading off social change in a city being seismically altered by capital flight, and rising poverty. His imposing frame and brash aphorisms symbolized security.
"When Frank Rizzo walked into a neighborhood, people felt safe," remembers Michael Chitwood, a former Philly cop who served throughout Rizzo's years in power and is now Superintendent of Police in neighboring Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. "If there was an incident, Frank Rizzo was out front leading the charge. He was a combination of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. If he told you to go through a door, you wouldn't hesitate."
"Take Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, the guy in Staten Island, and you put all that shit in one city."—Michael Simmons
Rizzo joined the Philadelphia Police Department in 1943 and would go on to embrace hard-charging tactics, like raiding beatnik and gay hangouts in the 1950s. Nearly anything was justified to get a suspect in cuffs, no matter their race. But African-Americans were some of the poorest residents of the city, and that grim reality set the groundwork for Rizzo's turbulent relations with people of color, which were locked in place by a series of high-profile incidents in the 1960s.
Like plenty of American lawmen in that era, Rizzo didn't seem able, or willing, to differentiate between activism and criminality. In 1966, he organized four squads of shotgun-touting cops to raid offices and an apartment associated with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Philly, turning up two and a half sticks of dynamite. (SNCC activists claimed then, and reiterate today, that the explosives were planted by an informant.) In 1967, after being appointed police commissioner, Rizzo led a phalanx of officers to a school administration building where a crowd of students was protesting in favor of a black history curriculum. What happened next is in dispute, or at least the precise wording is: Local newspapers reported that Rizzo told cops, whom he suggested were being attacked, to "get their black asses."
The results were brutal, with dozens of students beaten in what observers described as a police riot. "A cop chased two black girls right outside of the window of the administration building where we were looking out," the school district's then-public relations manager remembered years later, "and just proceeded to beat the crap out of them with a nightstick." These incidents solidified Rizzo's reputation, along with a 1970 raid against the Black Panther offices that ended with the men being strip-searched before newspaper photographers. In 1967, his approval rating stood at 84 percent, suggesting both blacks and whites were OK with him; after the showdown at the school, letters to the Philadelphia Inquirer were two to one in favor of Rizzo, while letters to the African-American paper, the Tribune, were three to one against. Still, his popularity among white voters secured the police department plenty of resources: The number of city cops went from 7,000 to 9,000 during his commissionership and the budget jumped from $60 million to $100 million.
As both a police official and mayor, Rizzo traded in the kind of tough-on-crime politics that evoked a vision of society beset by shadowy figures of monstrous criminality and radicalism—concepts that often bled together in his narratives. In the face of these existential threats, the forces of law and order were justified in responding with extreme prejudice: More officers, scarier guns, bigger prisons, and stiffer sentences. "If the prisons are crowded, if we need more prisons, let's build them," Rizzo said in 1968, 20 years before George HW Bush used awfully similar language as he ramped up mass incarceration. "Most of these hardened criminals are beyond rehabilitation… They are being pampered," Rizzo added. A decade later, he bragged on national television that the department's armory had grown from a mere six shotguns when he took over as commissioner: "Now we're equipped to fight wars. We could invade Cuba and win."
After he became mayor in 1972, the Philly police department's budget climbed steadily, and in negotiations, Rizzo granted cops pay hikes and extremely generous pension plans that allowed many to retire with full benefits after 25 years. Such benefits might be easier to bear with a larger tax pool, but in a city with a shrinking population and tax base, allowing thousands of officers to retire at early at age 45 proved a heavy burden. A few years ago, Philadelphia Magazine estimated that thanks to pension requirements negotiated under Rizzo and his predecessor, James Tate, 12,000 retired officers and their beneficiaries are owed today between $1.2 and $1.7 million each.
"Rizzo kidnapped the fucking city, that's what he really did." —Larry Krasner
Meanwhile, Rizzo retained absolute control over the police department. He appointed a new commissioner, but officers who needed favors or help with a problem still knew who to go to. "When I was in trouble, I circumvented the whole world and went right to the Mayor's Office," remembers Chitwood, who was among the subjects of a Philadelphia Inquirer investigation into pervasive brutality in the department. "It was still Rizzo's police department. I went to Rizzo, and said, 'Look, I don't want to lose my job.' And Rizzo said to me, his exact words were, 'As long as I'm mayor, you'll have a job.'"
Critics are still fuming about how the police department under Rizzo was deeply politicized. "Rizzo was responsible for a lot of police frame-ups," alleges Hakim Anderson, a former SNCC activist, who recalls being arrested 17 times in a three-month period. "About every other week I was being picked up for something. They were frame-ups, never any convictions for any of the charges." Radical activists weren't the only targets: Philly police were used to intimidate Rizzo's establishment political opponents too, according to the 1977 book The Cop Who Would Be King , including the president of city council, the head of the local Democratic Party, and the superintendent of the school district.
As violent crime continued to rise, the police department reacted in kind. In 1979, the Department of Justice, in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, charged Rizzo and other city officials with allowing pervasive police abuse. They found that from 1970 to 1978, the police shot and killed 162 people. "The cops were just totally out of control," remembers Michael Simmons, an organizer with SNCC and a variety of other leftist groups who sat in at Rizzo's office to protest police brutality. "They were really beating and shooting African Americans and Puerto Ricans. It's like what's going on now, but it was all taking place in one city. Take Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, the guy in Staten Island, and you put all that shit in one city."
Rizzo's clout never stretched beyond Philadelphia, though: His higher aspirations were tarnished by a series of scandals, many linked to patronage or police brutality, and an enormous tax hike to pay for his largesse. He barely survived a recall effort and, even as his political base shrunk, tried a blatant racial appeal, encouraging residents to vote for a change in the city charter to let him serve a third consecutive term. "I'm asking white people, and blacks who think like me, to vote Frank Rizzo," he said. "I say vote white." (He lost the vote to change the term limit two to one.)
In many ways, Philadelphia is still living with Frank Rizzo's police force. Data from Governing shows that the city has the fifth highest police-officer-to-citizen ratio in the nation, and the pensions he negotiated with the police and firemen's unions remain a weight on the city's shaky finances. A report from the Department of Justice released this year found that between 2007 and 2013, the Philly police force killed people at a rate six times greater than their counterparts in New York; 81 percent of those killed were black. Scandals rock the department with disturbing regularity, but even if the commissioner wants to fire an officer, the arbitration system makes it all but impossible. The police department remains a hidebound and hugely powerful institution apart from the rest of Philadelphia, one that seems stuck in the 1970s.
"Rizzo kidnapped the fucking city, that's what he really did," says Larry Krasner, a civil rights attorney who frequently sues the police department over issues of brutality and corruption. "He said, 'We're cops and we're in charge of the money, the pensions, race relations,' and he took us to the bottom of the fucking ocean. He was the strong man who dispenses with niceties like laws and constitutional protections and just gets the job done. And we still have a police department that feels they can do pretty much whatever they want. And they're right about that."
Jake Blumgart is a reporter and editor based in Philadelphia. Follow him on Twitter.
Some great leftist propaganda there. The Demonrats who run things now run everything into the ground. They don't do anything about rioters and looters until it reaches their immediate neighborhood... scumbags.
I was here back then too and I remember that time. The city was much safer... police did their jobs... crime was much lower. As long as you were obeying the law, you had no problem at all. Violent criminal animals deserved to get their heads beat in. God bless Frank Rizzo.
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Nobody even needs statistics to know black people are more aggressive and violent. Just go to the mall or any public place with a bunch of black people and you can see for yourself what they are like.
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Nobody even needs statistics to know black people are more aggressive and violent. Just go to the mall or any public place with a bunch of black people and you can see for yourself what they are like.
And yet so many are oblivious to this fact.
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And yet so many are oblivious to this fact.
It's convenient for them to be oblivious. Most kneegers act like animals... so plain to see.
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It's convenient for them to be oblivious. Most kneegers act like animals... so plain to see.
It's convenient because most white liberals live in a bubble far removed from reality.
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It's convenient because most white liberals live in a bubble far removed from reality.
It really is a form of mental illness. And it doesn't seem to be treatable either. I vote for bringing back insane asylums.
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Some great leftist propaganda there. The Demonrats who run things now run everything into the ground. They don't do anything about rioters and looters until it reaches their immediate neighborhood... scumbags.
I was here back then too and I remember that time. The city was much safer... police did their jobs... crime was much lower. As long as you were obeying the law, you had no problem at all. Violent criminal animals deserved to get their heads beat in. God bless Frank Rizzo.
I agree , now they have to hide his statue. it's a shame, he and his brother joseph were real men.
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I agree , now they have to hide his statue. it's a shame, he and his brother joseph were real men.
The Vice hit piece's racist Bolshevik author and his racist Bolshevik source doing their hatred against Italians thing.
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Larry Krasner
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I agree , now they have to hide his statue. it's a shame, he and his brother joseph were real men.
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What is the value of a Backbody?
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Some great leftist propaganda there. The Demonrats who run things now run everything into the ground. They don't do anything about rioters and looters until it reaches their immediate neighborhood... scumbags.
I was here back then too and I remember that time. The city was much safer... police did their jobs... crime was much lower. As long as you were obeying the law, you had no problem at all. Violent criminal animals deserved to get their heads beat in. God bless Frank Rizzo.
Agree...I'm from Philly and the city was much nicer and more livable under Rizzo. Then the Democrats took over and now it's a toilet. Everything the Dems touch turns to shit.
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I agree , now they have to hide his statue. it's a shame, he and his brother joseph were real men.
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( long version - www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HWHhev-aag ).
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That first video is awesome.
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Agree...I'm from Philly and the city was much nicer and more livable under Rizzo. Then the Democrats took over and now it's a toilet. Everything the Dems touch turns to shit.
did you ever hear of or go to fritsche's gym or the holy savior barbell club in norristown.
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did you ring the liberty bell before it cracked?
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did you ever hear of or go to fritsche's gym or the holy savior barbell club in norristown.
Heard of Fritche's, never went there. I think Ken Covington trained there. I trained at gyms in Ambler, Jenkintown, Line Lexington and one on Cottman ave.
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Havent seen much by the Libturd media reporting on the horrific violent rioting in Philly??
Why is it that more white people are killed by cops, but zero riots when they are killed? Media fueled and approved rioting??
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/10/28/philadelphia-protest-riot-looting-aramingo-avenue-port-richmond-continues-2nd-night-fatal-police-shooting-walter-wallace/
Dem ran city
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Will we see an event like this again?
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Nobody even needs statistics to know black people are more aggressive and violent. Just go to the mall or any public place with a bunch of black people and you can see for yourself what they are like.
yep they shut down the mall i always went to back in the 80's and 90's, it was one of the biggest malls in the country
there used to be muggings in the parking lot and they tried to keep that out of the local news, but of course people talk when things like that happen
all they had to do was stop sending a bus to their communities and the mall might still be in business, it's not like that would've cost them money because most would just go to the mall to loiter, but taking away that bus route would've been "racist" ::)
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This POS mayor Kenney needs to GO!
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Philly City Council Strips Cops Of Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas After Dozens Wounded In Street Violence
Philadelphia City Council approved legislation, 14-3 vote, that prohibits law enforcement officers from using "less-lethal munitions," such as rubber bullets, tear gas, and pepper spray on demonstrators.
The vote comes days after social unrest was sparked in the City of Brotherly Love - over the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., and days before the Nov. 03 presidential elections. The legislation is expected to be signed momentarily by Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney, who is trying to appease local constituents/demonstrators.
Councilmember Helen Gym, the bill's prime sponsor, said, "in banning the police use of less-lethal munitions in response to demonstrations, we are answering the calls of our constituents."
Gym continued: "This is a moment where repairing trust between our residents, public officials, and police are essential. Residential neighborhoods are not warzones. Demonstrators are not enemy combatants. This is a first step in working with our communities to build a new model for public safety that is driven by their needs and their vision for the future."
While most councilmembers support the bill, three councilmembers, including Republican Councilmembers David Oh and Brian J. O'Neill, along with Democrat Bobby Henon, voted against it. Their opposition stemmed from what they said would be the "chilling effects" of police officers not having the right tools to enforce public safety.
Philadelphia Mayor's Office released an update Thursday of the overall situation in the metro area. At least 11 ATMs were blown up across town, 57 police officers injured, and over 212 felony or misdemeanors arrests.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf was quick to deploy the Pennsylvania National Guard on Tuesday with mandatory curfews on Wednesday.
Readers may recall, other Democratic cities banned "less-than-lethal" weapons earlier this year, following the George Floyd protests.
Seattle City Council voted unanimously to ban police from chokeholds, tear gas, pepper spray, and other crowd-control weapons in June.
This is another example of pandering urban Democrats, placing their political interest above police officers' health and safety and the community they are supposed to be protecting.
Also, suppose officers, barred from carrying "less-lethal munitions," what happens when they're forced into a situation where they have no alternative in firing their service weapon?
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Nobody even needs statistics to know black people are more aggressive and violent. Just go to the mall or any public place with a bunch of black people and you can see for yourself what they are like.
This
No impulse control either.
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Libturdz and BLM made a felon, 'pregnant woman robbing/molesting' drug-using criminal, into a symbol of the party.
Really brain-dead retardz these libKuntz. ::)
George "Pink" Floyd - Dark Side of the Koon.
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Nothing to see here, just peaceful demonstrations. Move along.
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The bomb blew up, but it burned many houses with it. All connected row homes. I was at work and watched this live on the news as it was happening. The person who authorized all of this was mayor Wilson Goode... he was black.
What these vids do not mention is that the MOVE members were shooting at police with AR's and AK's. They were given weeks to surrender and come out of there... they did not.
Yup remember it well. Ever been in the back of on those paddywagons I have. :)
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Yup remember it well. Ever been in the back of on those paddywagons I have. :)
Paddy wagon is a xenophobic term. Derogatory towards Irish. Take that back I am
Offended!!
Said no Irish person ever
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Demturdz ::)
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water-heads of the western-world. ::)
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Brain-dead retard risking kids life to teach hate. Foolish kunt.
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A shit-hole of a violent (black) city.
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Thread of violence and mayhem can just go on forever. Demtards and BLM are the enemy. No brain-cells present though.
So dumb they think destroying a great country is a good thing.
Spray 'em w/ bullets, take out the vile kuntz.
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Not only that, 93% of Black murder victims are murdered by other Blacks, where only 0.77% of Black people killed by White people, and that includes all of the shootings of armed Black men shot by the police. I suspect that probably 90% of those deaths of Black people by White people are probably in self-defense.
So for the Jewish-controlled media to assert that White people are somehow hunting down and shooting or killing innocent Black men is just straight up absurd. It's not only a lie - it's the complete opposite of the truth, given that White people are overwhelmingly targeted, attacked, and killed by Black people than the number of Blacks killed by Whites.
The Jewish-controlled media is pushing a narrative that is literally delusional.
Look at the first chart to see just how delusional it is to talk about Black people killed by White people, lol! It's like a full cultural movement/revolution complaining about women raping men. ANY sane person should be like "Are the people promoting this stuff INSANE?" White people are OVERWHELMINGLY targeted more by Black people than the reverse! It's not even close! It's not even comparable! It IS, as said, like saying that women commit most rapes and sexual assaults, and that men are the victims. It just blows my mind that there are ANY White people who still possibly support this, as if spending 7 seconds online searching for the information below is too much work for them.
As for the second attached image - just because a Black person is "unarmed" doesn't mean that the police shooting that they were involved in wasn't completely justifiable. The reality of the matter is that Black people attack or otherwise pose a threat to the safety of police officers without necessarily being armed with a weapon. And Indigenous former friend of mine got arrested - and convicted - of committing armed robbery at a pharmacy because he pulled his shirt sleeve up and pretended that he had a hidden weapon under his sleeve. So he was convicted of armed robbery for literally using his arm as a weapon.
But you will NEVER hear the Jewish-controlled media in the West say any of this, or EVER put these cases in context, because the ONLY agenda they are interested in promoting/advancing is that White people are evil and the scourge of the earth, and are the singular [and only] cause of all the suffering of non-White races.
Even if that complete BULL was true, it begs the question: WHY DO NON-WHITE PEOPLE KEEP STREAMING INTO WHITE/WESTERN COUNTRIES BY THE MILLIONS EACH YEAR, LITERALLY RISKING THEIR LIVES IN THE PROCESS IN SOME CASES? WHY do these people want to live AWAY - far, FAR away - from their own race, but live in the countries that have the highest concentration of White people present?
That is exactly the OPPOSITE of what the Jewish-controlled media is suggesting - according to the narratives they support and advance, White people are EVIL, and "oppress" non-Whites, and if that WERE true, then they should be promoting repatriating those non-White people back to the ancestral homelands, where THEIR races are in the majority, and where THEIR races sustain the institutions in those nations, including law enforcement, so that the innocent and perfect and glorious "people of colour" who can do no wrong, and are only the victims of the evil racism of all the rotten White people won't have to ever experience the evil rotten "racism" of White people, who somehow "oppress" them. That way, they can live far away from White people, and no longer have to face all the "oppression" that White people bring to their lives.
After all, wouldn't THAT be the humane thing to do?
But NOPE - the Jewish-controlled media keeps INSISTING on flooding White countries and only White countries with endless waves of non-White immigration, so that each passing 3-5 years, we see an even GREATER number of non-Whites wishing to overthrow the current socioeconomic and political status quo, and do everything they can to ensure that White people are pushing into extreme minority status to the point where Whites will be in the single digit percentage of current White/Western societies by 2150.
Gee, it's almost like maybe that's the point or something. ::)
Of course by then, Western society will look like a developing country, and non-Whites will have even WORSE lives being in a majority non-White country, just the way that non-Whites CURRENLY have worse lives when they live in majority non-White countries compared to the much higher quality of life, access to healthcare, access to education, access to social services, and stronger and less corrupt institutions to serve their interests and allow them to a much greater chance of achieving fair justice if they are ever on the wrong side of the law, and much better chance of preserving and maintaining their physical safety in White societies than they would have in their own societies.
And yet White people are never allowed to directly VOTE on whether or not we want these endless streams of non-White immigration to continue, as White people are accused of all problems facing non-White people, to do something to push back on the increasingly violent and increasingly unstable nature of the USA and Western society in general because of this endless immigration, and the fact that non-Whites are blamed for every woe facing non-Whites, and the ethnic aliens who control our media continue to agitate, to make as many non-Whites hate Whites as possible and want to accelerate their demographic decline, while increasing mass immigration of non-White people into the USA and other White/Western societies at the highest rate possibles.
And they seriously expect that nothing will give, and that this agitation isn't getting so far out of hand, as if White people are supposed to let a one-sided race war go on and do absolutely nothing to fight back.
I'm sorry, but screw that. And it makes me happy to see so many strongly identified White males on Getbig who have NO FEAR in saying that, and standing up for their unique ethnic and racial interests, and aren't afraid of a word - "racist" - being used to shout them down. As if not being called "racist" is somehow better for White people overall than seeing multiple Democrat cities burnt to the ground, and billions of dollars of property damage ensue.
I am confident that will see an inflection point between now and 2030 where White people just collectively stop caring completely, no matter WHAT we are caused, and that the small minority of vocal "anti-racist" social justice Whites who try to keep the rest of us in line by guilt - and by attempting to destroy our personal economies by having us fired from our jobs - will grow even smaller, and will simply be completely ignored. At that point, I think they will realize that they have to make the choice of supporting their in-group [White people], or being on the side of the hodgepodge of "Oppression Olympics [Everyone Gets a Trophy]" welfare-grabbers who want nothing but endless amounts of free stuff, and who DO NOT care how "anti-racist" a White person is, because they - masses of them - think that White people are irredeemably racist, and don't want them on their side, regardless of how "anti-racist" they claim to be, or how much they "denounce their White Privilege", and blame White people for all of the problems facing Black people.
At that point, which I'm sure will happen by 2030 or, say, between 2030 to 2040 at the very latest, is when we will see White people band together as a group, not just in the USA, but throughout ALL of Western civilization, which will make it impossible for anyone to stop White people for standing up for their collective racial interests. Then it will be the most dominant race that ultimately ends up winning the ensuing riots/conflicts, or even race war or full-on civil war that ensues.
I don't want it to come to that, but what is the alternative? Are we supposed to change the laws that allow Black people to legally shoot at the police, and make it illegal for police officers to match lethal force with lethal force? Or should we allow Black men [like Rayshard Brooks, from Georgia] to pass out drunk in a Wendy's drive-thru and to punch out one cop, and to steal one of their tasers and shoot it at the head/face of the other cop [luckily, he missed], and for the police officer to shoot him in defense, when faced with lethal force, only for him to get fired for doing so?? Is THAT what the Black Lives Matter movement wants to change the law to, basically allowing Black men to get away with anything and everything, with any response or arrest being classified as "racist", and resulting in the police officers getting fired, for simply doing their jobs or, in some of these cases, literally defending themselves with lethal force, when facing lethal force?
I would LOVE for any of the BLM supporters to tell exactly what they expect society to tolerate from Black criminals in their brave new world. But...I think I already know. And I REFUSE to accept that.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, and to see how long it takes before White people put their feet down, and makes mass-arrests of Black criminals and other criminals of the BLM movement. Conversely...well...I don't even want to know what will happen if law enforcement doesn't put a stop to these degradation, violent decay, and filth.
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Demturdz "Lets let them keep peacefully rioting". ::)
Dumb fukkz.
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Matt:
"Or should we allow Black men [like Rayshard Brooks, from Georgia] to pass out drunk in a Wendy's drive-thru and to punch out one cop, and to steal one of their tasers and shoot it at the head/face of the other cop [luckily, he missed], and for the police officer to shoot him in defense, when faced with lethal force, only for him to get fired for doing so??"
Thats what upside down, deranged, retard libturdz want yes. They want what you worked for and libturdz will try to give it to them. Free pass for violent crime for these kuntz.
CNN hiding everything, talk about fake "Trump Supports" causing violence on the roads like Vince mentioned. Comparing a tiny "motorcade" to violently taking over and burning down cities, attacking innocent people, rioting, looting, burning, killing, real stupid blinded-by-hate kuntz.
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Low IQ's of Piss.
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The Brutal Legacy of Frank Rizzo, the Most Notorious Cop in Philadelphia History
The former police commissioner and mayor known to fellow cops as "The General" has been dead for decades, but Philadelphia is still grappling with his controversial, racially-tinged policies.
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By Jake Blumgart
October 22, 2015, 3:00pm
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FRANK RIZZO AS MAYOR IN 1977. PHOTO COURTESY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTER, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Say the name Frank Rizzo at any old-school dive bar in Philadelphia and you're liable to start a conversation. The former mayor and police commissioner who reigned through most of the 70s might be described as a "tough guy"—or maybe a "racist asshole."
Immediately recognizable from his hulking figure and spiffy threads, Rizzo traded on white working-class fears of the city's rising violent crime rate, and made no bones about his penchant for cracking heads.
"Just wait after November, you'll have a front row seat because I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a homo," he said of his enemies during his 1975 re-election bid.
On Wednesday, a two-hour recounting of his life (simply called Rizzo), based on a mostly friendly 1993 biography from ESPN writer Sal Paolantonio, opened after a run of sold-out previews. In the era of the Black Lives Matter movement and the April conflagration on the streets of Baltimore, a reexamination of the life of Philadelphia's most notorious former mayor and top cop makes sense. And even though Rizzo died in the early 90s, the city is still working its way out of the man's shadow when it comes to local policing.
The police of his day knew Rizzo as "The General," and he certainly cut a commanding figure: 6'2, 250 pounds, a 19-and-a-half inch neck (Mike Tyson, for comparison, is a 20-and-a-half). You might say his appeal was a bit like that of Donald Trump: Rizzo fashioned himself as a tough decision-maker who said what he meant, tact be damned. "[The Black Panthers] should be strung up," he once said after ordering raids on the group's offices throughout Philly. "I mean, within the law. This is actual warfare." Rizzo seemed to lean on cops as an instrument for heading off social change in a city being seismically altered by capital flight, and rising poverty. His imposing frame and brash aphorisms symbolized security.
"When Frank Rizzo walked into a neighborhood, people felt safe," remembers Michael Chitwood, a former Philly cop who served throughout Rizzo's years in power and is now Superintendent of Police in neighboring Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. "If there was an incident, Frank Rizzo was out front leading the charge. He was a combination of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. If he told you to go through a door, you wouldn't hesitate."
"Take Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, the guy in Staten Island, and you put all that shit in one city."—Michael Simmons
Rizzo joined the Philadelphia Police Department in 1943 and would go on to embrace hard-charging tactics, like raiding beatnik and gay hangouts in the 1950s. Nearly anything was justified to get a suspect in cuffs, no matter their race. But African-Americans were some of the poorest residents of the city, and that grim reality set the groundwork for Rizzo's turbulent relations with people of color, which were locked in place by a series of high-profile incidents in the 1960s.
Like plenty of American lawmen in that era, Rizzo didn't seem able, or willing, to differentiate between activism and criminality. In 1966, he organized four squads of shotgun-touting cops to raid offices and an apartment associated with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Philly, turning up two and a half sticks of dynamite. (SNCC activists claimed then, and reiterate today, that the explosives were planted by an informant.) In 1967, after being appointed police commissioner, Rizzo led a phalanx of officers to a school administration building where a crowd of students was protesting in favor of a black history curriculum. What happened next is in dispute, or at least the precise wording is: Local newspapers reported that Rizzo told cops, whom he suggested were being attacked, to "get their black asses."
The results were brutal, with dozens of students beaten in what observers described as a police riot. "A cop chased two black girls right outside of the window of the administration building where we were looking out," the school district's then-public relations manager remembered years later, "and just proceeded to beat the crap out of them with a nightstick." These incidents solidified Rizzo's reputation, along with a 1970 raid against the Black Panther offices that ended with the men being strip-searched before newspaper photographers. In 1967, his approval rating stood at 84 percent, suggesting both blacks and whites were OK with him; after the showdown at the school, letters to the Philadelphia Inquirer were two to one in favor of Rizzo, while letters to the African-American paper, the Tribune, were three to one against. Still, his popularity among white voters secured the police department plenty of resources: The number of city cops went from 7,000 to 9,000 during his commissionership and the budget jumped from $60 million to $100 million.
As both a police official and mayor, Rizzo traded in the kind of tough-on-crime politics that evoked a vision of society beset by shadowy figures of monstrous criminality and radicalism—concepts that often bled together in his narratives. In the face of these existential threats, the forces of law and order were justified in responding with extreme prejudice: More officers, scarier guns, bigger prisons, and stiffer sentences. "If the prisons are crowded, if we need more prisons, let's build them," Rizzo said in 1968, 20 years before George HW Bush used awfully similar language as he ramped up mass incarceration. "Most of these hardened criminals are beyond rehabilitation… They are being pampered," Rizzo added. A decade later, he bragged on national television that the department's armory had grown from a mere six shotguns when he took over as commissioner: "Now we're equipped to fight wars. We could invade Cuba and win."
After he became mayor in 1972, the Philly police department's budget climbed steadily, and in negotiations, Rizzo granted cops pay hikes and extremely generous pension plans that allowed many to retire with full benefits after 25 years. Such benefits might be easier to bear with a larger tax pool, but in a city with a shrinking population and tax base, allowing thousands of officers to retire at early at age 45 proved a heavy burden. A few years ago, Philadelphia Magazine estimated that thanks to pension requirements negotiated under Rizzo and his predecessor, James Tate, 12,000 retired officers and their beneficiaries are owed today between $1.2 and $1.7 million each.
"Rizzo kidnapped the fucking city, that's what he really did." —Larry Krasner
Meanwhile, Rizzo retained absolute control over the police department. He appointed a new commissioner, but officers who needed favors or help with a problem still knew who to go to. "When I was in trouble, I circumvented the whole world and went right to the Mayor's Office," remembers Chitwood, who was among the subjects of a Philadelphia Inquirer investigation into pervasive brutality in the department. "It was still Rizzo's police department. I went to Rizzo, and said, 'Look, I don't want to lose my job.' And Rizzo said to me, his exact words were, 'As long as I'm mayor, you'll have a job.'"
Critics are still fuming about how the police department under Rizzo was deeply politicized. "Rizzo was responsible for a lot of police frame-ups," alleges Hakim Anderson, a former SNCC activist, who recalls being arrested 17 times in a three-month period. "About every other week I was being picked up for something. They were frame-ups, never any convictions for any of the charges." Radical activists weren't the only targets: Philly police were used to intimidate Rizzo's establishment political opponents too, according to the 1977 book The Cop Who Would Be King , including the president of city council, the head of the local Democratic Party, and the superintendent of the school district.
As violent crime continued to rise, the police department reacted in kind. In 1979, the Department of Justice, in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, charged Rizzo and other city officials with allowing pervasive police abuse. They found that from 1970 to 1978, the police shot and killed 162 people. "The cops were just totally out of control," remembers Michael Simmons, an organizer with SNCC and a variety of other leftist groups who sat in at Rizzo's office to protest police brutality. "They were really beating and shooting African Americans and Puerto Ricans. It's like what's going on now, but it was all taking place in one city. Take Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, the guy in Staten Island, and you put all that shit in one city."
Rizzo's clout never stretched beyond Philadelphia, though: His higher aspirations were tarnished by a series of scandals, many linked to patronage or police brutality, and an enormous tax hike to pay for his largesse. He barely survived a recall effort and, even as his political base shrunk, tried a blatant racial appeal, encouraging residents to vote for a change in the city charter to let him serve a third consecutive term. "I'm asking white people, and blacks who think like me, to vote Frank Rizzo," he said. "I say vote white." (He lost the vote to change the term limit two to one.)
In many ways, Philadelphia is still living with Frank Rizzo's police force. Data from Governing shows that the city has the fifth highest police-officer-to-citizen ratio in the nation, and the pensions he negotiated with the police and firemen's unions remain a weight on the city's shaky finances. A report from the Department of Justice released this year found that between 2007 and 2013, the Philly police force killed people at a rate six times greater than their counterparts in New York; 81 percent of those killed were black. Scandals rock the department with disturbing regularity, but even if the commissioner wants to fire an officer, the arbitration system makes it all but impossible. The police department remains a hidebound and hugely powerful institution apart from the rest of Philadelphia, one that seems stuck in the 1970s.
"Rizzo kidnapped the fucking city, that's what he really did," says Larry Krasner, a civil rights attorney who frequently sues the police department over issues of brutality and corruption. "He said, 'We're cops and we're in charge of the money, the pensions, race relations,' and he took us to the bottom of the fucking ocean. He was the strong man who dispenses with niceties like laws and constitutional protections and just gets the job done. And we still have a police department that feels they can do pretty much whatever they want. And they're right about that."
Jake Blumgart is a reporter and editor based in Philadelphia. Follow him on Twitter.
This Frank Rizzo is even worse than what was described in that lengthy article. He was also responsible for many terroristic phone pranks in the early to late 1980s.
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Rizzo was a great mayor, of course the criminal elements hated him. Instead of cleaning up their culture, they cry "racism".
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MY NAME IS FRANK RIZZO JERKY!! R-I-Z-Z-O!!
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MY NAME IS FRANK RIZZO JERKY!! R-I-Z-Z-O!!
This is exactly what I was referring to! His accomplices, Sol Rosenberg and Kissel should also be ashamed of themselves.
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Low IQ's of Piss.
i hope trump wins and sends in the national guard to annihilate any parasite rioting over this vermin getting killed by police
enough is enough, lethal force is the only thing that can stop this insanity
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i hope trump wins and sends in the national guard to annihilate any parasite rioting over this vermin getting killed by police
enough is enough, lethal force is the only thing that can stop this insanity
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Especially when the local government forbids the use of tear gas and rubber bullets.
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i hope trump wins and sends in the national guard to annihilate any parasite rioting over this vermin getting killed by police
enough is enough, lethal force is the only thing that can stop this insanity
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and then crazy nancy will have him impeached again and waste millions of tax payer $$$
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i hope trump wins and sends in the national guard to annihilate any parasite rioting over this vermin getting killed by police
enough is enough, lethal force is the only thing that can stop this insanity
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Cold weather will be a deterrent. Anything below 40F and nignogs tend to hibernate and not come outside. My neighborhood is a paradise during cold winter months.
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Havent seen much by the Libturd media reporting on the horrific violent rioting in Philly??
Why is it that more white people are killed by cops, but zero riots when they are killed? Media fueled and approved rioting??
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/10/28/philadelphia-protest-riot-looting-aramingo-avenue-port-richmond-continues-2nd-night-fatal-police-shooting-walter-wallace/
Nothing about this riot is showing up in my Google news feed for the US. Thanks for sharing this. Googles trying to bury the story.
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Cold weather will be a deterrent. Anything below 40F and nignogs tend to hibernate and not come outside. My neighborhood is a paradise during cold winter months.
NYC will be in the mid 60's all week so they're good
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Low IQ's of Piss.
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=669294.0;attach=1281634;image)
Google search on shows this image for this fine upstanding citizen.
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