There's a debate now in Philly on whether or not they should take down a statue of former mayor and police chief Frank Rizzo. The guy was a pretty good police chief in the 60s and 70s when policing ina major city was really tough. He worked to integrate the police department because he thought black officers would do a better job of policing black neighbors.
But he was definitely racist and he was horrible and corrupt mayor. I don't think he deserves a statue but at the same time I don't think he was so bad that it's worth protesting his statue.
anyway I'm just positng about it because this quote and this interview are hilarious.
Frank Rizzo, has long been as hard on syntax as he is on the "vermin" he blames for his city's problems with crime and decline. During his campaign for a second four-year term in 1975, for instance, the blustery former police chief offered Philadelphians a typically unpunctuated promise: "Just wait after November you'll have a front row seat because I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a
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