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Philadelphia Mayor Kenney Sued for Ethnic Discrimination
The plaintiffs alleged that the mayor’s executive orders discriminated against Italian-Americans while exalting another ethnic group.
Also cited are actions to remove the statue of Christopher Columbus from south Philadelphia and a statue of ex-mayor Frank Rizzo last year from near City Hall.
The filing alleged that Kenney “took unilateral actions against two iconic Italian American statues prominently displayed for decades the Frank L. Rizzo from the plaza at the Municipal Services Building and the attempted removal of the 140-year-old Christopher Columbus statue from Marconi Plaza.”
The suit continues to say, “No other statues in the City (amongst the many hundreds) have been targeted by the Mayor.”
i think that reggie felt that in a sense the system betrayed him because his sentence for the same crime of the murder of sonia rosenbaum was, in his mind, much greater than his cohorts. in actuality, everybody took a plea bargain. he went to trial, so he ended up getting a more severe sentence. i vowed that wherever i got out of jail, i would pay frank rizzo and his party back for what they did to me. we have criminals walking our streets that will never be rehabilitated, cannot be rehabilitated, and should be put in prison. the overarching focus for him was frank rizzo, and for 24 years in prison, that feeling festered. in 1993, he died of a heart attack on the campaign trail.
page of the philadelphia enquir enquirer which reports that three of the four suspects were arrested after mrs. rosenbaum s nude body was found tied up with a washcloth stuffed down her throat. everybody agrees that the death was accidental. it wasn t intentional. but because of the pennsylvania law of felony homicide, they tried all of us as adults. in the rosenbaum crime, he minimizes his role in this, that he didn t do it, he didn t commit the homicide, he didn t know this was going to happen, wasn t his plan, but that s very typical of an individual like this because really they re looking out for their own best interests. so very easy to blame everybody else. mcfadden s crime becomes a touchstone issue during then police commissioner frank l. rizzo s campaign to become mayor. he vowed to the jewish community he was going to send me away for life. i was only 17 years old.
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