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In November 2017, the city voted to remove the statue. However, the mayor refused to remove the statue, due to the $ 200,000 expense involved. Following unsuccessful attempts to pull down the statue by protesters, the mayor's office finally ordered the removal of the statue and it was placed into
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in majority-white neighborhoods. While running for a third term, Rizzo urged supporters to "Vote White". During his tenure as police commissioner and mayor, the Philadelphia police department engaged in patterns of
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Calls for the statue's removal began in 2016, when a group called the Philly Coalition for REAL Justice started an online petition. In August 2017, following the
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in Charlottesville, Virginia, the statue was vandalized, kicking off further calls for its removal. The artist behind the statue, Zenos Frudakis, told the
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reported that sculptor Zenos Frudakis had "decided that his monument should be a statue walking toward the people, hand upheld in a greeting." The
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The statue was placed on its pedestal on December 30, 1998 and unveiled on January 1, 1999. A crowd of 150 listened to speeches by Mayor
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that he "hesitated to do the work at first" due to Rizzo's past and would accept the statue's removal if the city decided on it.
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The statue of former mayor Frank Rizzo stood in front of the Municipal Services Building in Center City Philadelphia
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activists and others protested the statue's presence, and the statue was taken down during the
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noted that Rizzo "had a poor relationship with Philadelphia's African-American community."
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Monuments and memorials in the United States removed during the George Floyd protests
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List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests
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report did not reference any of the controversy over Rizzo's past.
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from the original on October 17, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
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List of monument and memorial controversies in the United States
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of Philadelphia's schools, and prevented the construction of
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Christopher Columbus (Columbus State Community College)
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Index

A picture of the statue
Bronze sculpture
Frank Rizzo
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Coordinates
39°57′14″N 75°09′52″W / 39.95375°N 75.16449°W / 39.95375; -75.16449
Frank Rizzo
Philadelphia
U.S. state
Pennsylvania
bronze sculpture
Black Lives Matter
George Floyd protests
Frank Rizzo
desegregation
public housing
police brutality
constitutional rights
Pulitzer-Prize
Philadelphia Inquirer
William K. Marimow
Jon Neuman
Ed Rendell
death of Trayvon Martin
Unite the Right rally
Artist Zenos Frudakis with the statue, 2009
Zenos Frudakis
The statue became a target of activists during the George Floyd protests in Philadelphia. It was removed by the city shortly afterwards.
George Floyd protests in Philadelphia

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