Word: rizzo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turn to Fudge. Last summer, Tate imposed a state of limited emergency as a precaution against racial violence and fully backed Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, who mobilized massive force at the least hint of trouble. Having dominated the front pages all summer, Tate is now able to declaim: "While other cities were being burned, sacked and pillaged, Philadelphia had law and order." When Tate demands to know if Specter, as mayor, would keep the controversial Rizzo in office, it is the D.A.'s turn to fudge. To take a stand on Rizzo would alienate either those who considered...
...hour, 2,000 men can be dispatched, many with bulletproof vests and shotguns. Because of coordinated planning, 500 state patrolmen are on call to move into the city on two hours' notice, and 4,000 National Guardsmen within five hours. According to one police official, Commissioner Frank Rizzo feels that "what happened in Detroit happened because the police didn't move in quickly enough. He's not going to let that happen here...
...four buildings were raided that night and 1,000 policemen mobilized. Acting Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo said he was acting on a tip from an informer who had brought in some sticks of dynamite himself. But the night's haul was only two-and-a-half sticks, found under a couch. Later, police dug up some blasting caps in a North Philadelphia backyard and arrested a national Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee board member, a 19-year-old member of SNCC and a professional blaster...
...raids, but that did not match SNCC's embarrassment at the publicity. James Forman, SNCC national director, came into town immediately. He charged -- accurately -- that the police had, without evidence, given the impression that the dynamite plot was a SNCC conspiracy. Forman also charged -- perhaps less accurately -- that Rizzo had planted the dynamite himself...
Palmer said he felt that the raids were a good thing because they helped to solidify the black community. His only evidence was a few ads in the Negro newspaper and a few meetings. But Stokely Carmichael, national chairman of SNCC, was equally confident. "Next time racist Rizzo brings his troops into our neighborhood," Carmichael said, "he'll have to answer...