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Francis Lazarro Rizzo (October 23, 1920 – July 16, 1991) was an American police officer and politician. He served as commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) from 1967 to 1971 and mayor of Philadelphia from 1972 to 1980.
Oct 22, 2015 · 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...
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Jun 3, 2020 · Workers removed a statue of Philadelphia's controversial former Mayor Frank Rizzo from its place of honor across from City Hall early Wednesday morning, finishing a job that protesters attempted...
May 5, 2019 · In recent years, it became commonplace to compare legendary and controversial former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo with Donald Trump. Perhaps that was why I finally read Frank Rizzo: The Last Big Man in Big City America, the influential biography published in 1993 by Sal Paolantonio.
Jun 3, 2020 · Demonstrators had tried to topple the statue of Frank Rizzo, the former mayor and police commissioner accused of police abuses in the 1960s and ’70s.
Aug 21, 2017 · The moments that made Frank Rizzo Philly-famous A primer on the life and career of the "Cop Who Would Be King" of Philadelphia, including his famous "crumb bum" video, the nightstick-in-the-cummerbund and his multiple attempts to regain the mayor's office.
Jun 4, 2020 · As Philadelphia police commissioner and mayor, Rizzo oversaw a police force that became notorious nationwide for its violence. Tuxedo-clad Mayor Frank L. Rizzo with nightstick arriving to the scene of a disturbance in a low-income housing project in 1969.
