Cities remove racist monuments before protesters can topple them
A vandalized statue of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo. (Matt Rourke/AP)/ Early Wednesday morning, crews removed the statue of former Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo from its base near City Hall, a long-standing demand by activists and a step promised by the city in 2017. Over the weekend, demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd had attempted to take down the statue on their own, vandalizing it in the process. Rizzo remains a polarizing figure in the city, a tough-on-crime police commissioner in the ...
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