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...grief. One thousand members of the Fraternal Order of Police came to the funeral. In the meantime, there was outrage in the black community--not over the death of the white policeman, but over the vicious way the police handled the entire situation. Despite claims by Mayor Frank Rizzo and his political hacks that the MOVE organization was universally hated in Philadelphia, most of the black neighbors who lived near MOVE did not resent the group as much as the middle-class whites living on the other side of the city. Right after the shooting, 300 infuriated black neighbors gathered...
Mayor Frank Rizzo, who earned a tough-cop reputation as police commissioner in the 1960s, surrounded the house with officers wearing flak jackets and carrying automatic weapons. Fearful of feeding racial tensions or harming the children, city officials decided not to use force. Instead, they tried to starve MOVE into surrender. For 56 days, the police isolated the block with sawhorses, aimed a water cannon at the house and cut off its gas, water and electricity. Finally, in May, the siege ended. MOVE members reluctantly turned their weapons over to the police and promised to vacate the house within...
Last week the members changed their minds. Said Chuck Africa, a spokesman for the group: "We only signed that agreement to crystallize what Rizzo is. To agree with Rizzo is to disagree with John Africa. We have never compromised before." At week's end police were prepared to move on the house. Said the mayor: "There will be no more bargaining, no more conversations, meetings or agreements. These people represent nobody but themselves; they're complete idiots." But the mayor may not have seen the last of MOVE. "We may be leaving the house," said Delbert Africa, MOVE...
Soon enough, however, Sandy and her family have changed their plans to return to Sydney, and Sandy finds herself plunk in the middle of Rydell High School. Naturally the two lovers discover soon enough that they are in fact at the same high school--thanks to Rizzo (Stockard Channing '64), that is, who presents Danny with the good news while he's hanging out at Rydell's homecoming parade with his greaser friends, and Sandy is cheerleading away. Unfortunately, because he is busy being a greaser Danny can't act like the sweet kid Sandy met at the beach...
William Marimow knew better. A native Philadelphian, he had been an Inquirer reporter since 1972 and had seen the city's police grow increasingly intransigent under Mayor Frank Rizzo, the city's former top cop. The situation galled Marimow as much as it did Neumann. Joining forces, the two produced a well-documented series of articles that exposed local police brutality and that have to date led to the indictment of 15 policemen. So far nine have been convicted and three acquitted, and three are awaiting trial. Seven more cops have been arrested, and two others have pleaded...