Word: toughtest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When riots were breaking out in many big cities in the late 1960's, Rizzo, often referred to as "America's toughtest cop," was determined to prevent them in Philadelphia. He once told Stokely Carmichael to "choose [his] words carefully" when the revolutionary civil rights leader came to the city to give a speech. He threatened, "I'm tellin' you, Mr. Carmichael, if you cause a riot in this town, I'm going to personally tear you apart. It'll take four orthopedic surgeons a week to put you together...
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