He despised the media, even though they made his reputation. Rizzo ran on white identity politics but ignored civil rights, racial equality, and changing cultural norms. Whenever these issues arose, he responded with violence. As a cop, he raided coffeehouses and gay bars , and arrested hippies lounging in a park. As Philadelphia Inquirer editor E. Rizzo was serving his second term as mayor when Amateur Night was released, having almost been censored by a local public broadcasting station.
The fact that his public memorials have only recently been removed, after much protest, demonstrate how deeply ingrained his kind of politics are in the national consciousness. Sign up for our email newsletters! From thought-provoking books to various dazzling accessories, visit the Hyperallergic Store for artful presents this holiday season.
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Others rely on a culture of secrecy to keep their misdeeds buried , while cops who report misbehavior can face retaliation.
Philadelphia is still unpacking its legacy. Born in to Italian immigrants, Frank Rizzo grew up the oldest of four boys in a two-story rowhome in South Philadelphia. His father was a city police officer, a disciplinarian in the Italian tradition. He was sort of a George Patton type, a law-and-order man — flashy, aggressive, with a sharp tongue. Everyone thought it fit. He rose through the ranks, to deputy commissioner in , and police commissioner in Rizzo summed up his philosophy in blunt terms.
On May 1, , Salaam was one of about 25 protesters outside Girard College, which at the time was a boarding school that only admitted poor, orphaned white boys. Salaam and the others, under the leadership of Cecil B. Moore, president of the NAACP Philadelphia chapter, marched for equality outside the acre campus with foot walls. Rizzo, as deputy police commissioner in charge of uniformed cops, was on the scene.
Hundreds of cops were there, toe to toe, stopping protesters from jumping the wall. One time, when protesters lay in the street to stop traffic, Rizzo told cops to beat them — with fists, nightsticks, whatever. People were bleeding. On another occasion, Salaam and the others stayed overnight, lying on the sidewalk in sleeping bags.
Rizzo ordered the cops who sat nearby in Jeeps to keep their engines running. In , when Rizzo was police commissioner, Salaam was one of a handful of protesters who handcuffed himself outside the post office at 30th and Market Streets to fight for equal-hiring practices.
The cops came and cuffed them with their arms between their legs so they had to hop to the police wagon. When they stumbled out of the wagon, the white officers had formed two lines on either side of a ramp, cursing them with a racial slur and saying, "You want freedom? They were hitting us so hard. It was like running the gauntlet. The nightsticks were long and wooden, but inside there was a bar of steel. Some were worn out and the steel was exposed.
When the steel hit the ground, you could see sparks. That same year, 3, high school students staged a protest over educational issues and some clashed with police.
The shocking scene was documented by news photographers. They were humiliated. State Sen. The senator recalls being warned, as a teenager, to avoid doing anything that might cause him to be taken into police custody. Rizzo became the first police commissioner elected mayor of a U. Popular in much of the city, even adored by some, he easily won reelection in But independent observers told a different story.
In , the U. A judge later tossed the lawsuit.
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