Equivalent to anything else that happened in charlottesville. I believe the president should have been and still needs to be unambiguous on that point. There was a snowball effect. Reporter an associate professor of finance. They had to decide a trade off. Access to pole pol si with a chance to make changes. They sent a message that the rep talgs cost outweighed the benefits. It leaves the president without two formal councils but the administration can get advice oneonone behind closed doors. This may be less transparency and what the agenda is. Reporter i reached out to the woman you saw in that piece who had been encourage iing poeo boycott campbells soup before the ceo stepped down. She tells me shes not surprised that the ceo did decide to resign from that manufacturing council. Shes also not surprised that the president would disban the council with all the opposition hes facing. Im lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. The developments come days after the violence e erupted over the weekend
Thousands have signed an online petition to keep the statue in place. Deanna durante spoke with one man who wants to see the statue e remain roigt there. She joins us life live with the story new at 5 00. Reporter the barricade you talked about is getting bigger as we speak. Police here setting up a larger perimeter around the statue and the Police Department tells us that a special detail will be on site as long as needed. In the meantime, those who knew frank rizzo are calling to keep this statue in place. Thomas gibbons still has the radio recording from frank rizzo when gibbons was shot on the job. He locked thu his own archives pulling out books and pictures of frank rizzo. I think its up to the people who still remember him and had experience with him to speak out. Rizzo died 25 years ago. The tough talking former cop and mayor was a major figure in gibbons life. He remembers the riots of the 1960s. His security force, it was mostly black guys. All of the black guys in the depart
By all. This began when white nationalists protested and baltimore removed four statues overnight and a statue of confederate attorney general george davis was vanalized and four people were arrested after the toppling of a confederate statue in durham, north carolina. John rawlins is in Center City Philadelphia where another statue is attracting attention the statue of the late frank rizzo. What about this controversy . Reporter well, this is something of a spill over effect. The city has expanded and reconfigured the temporary structures and barriers around the statue right now. The 10 foot statue here and surveillance cameras here the concern is participants involved in an event may target the state you in some way. Intense focus on a statue that is here since 1998. Someone threw eggs at it a 25yearold from miles away in new jersey taken in and charged. After a tweet by Council Woman gwynn. I am clear that this needs to have a public process to move the statue to another location. R
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