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