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The protesters who made their way through Center City on the first day Philadelphia saw mass demonstrations following the murder of George Floyd were looking for places to direct their anger. They came upon the statue of Frank L. Rizzo, the late mayor and police commissioner whose legacy so perfectly captured the style of policing they were fighting against that the monument could have been .
Folks who worry about a particularly abstract racism want to get rid of statues of such accused old-time racists as Christopher Columbus and Frank Rizzo, and will probably think of