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1/9 A statue of Frank #Rizzo, Philadelphia’s former police chief turned “law-and-order” mayor, was taken down from across City Hall after years of complaints that it was a monument to brutal, racist policing. It had become a rallying point for protestors. #Philadelphiaprotest 
2/9 Rizzo rose to power during the fight for civil rights in the 1960s. As manufacturing left Philadelphia, he stoked a blue-collar conservatism that found intense support in white ethnic neighborhoods. Like President Trump, he styled himself as a straight talker.
3/9 Rizzo’s way with words was so remarkable even his opponents cashed in. In 1977, a chapter of the liberal group @ADAction published an anthology of Rizzo’s wildest quotes, “The Sayings of Chairman Frank, or I Never Saw My Mother Naked.” Some excerpts:
