More Than 18,000 People Have Signed a Petition to Keep the Rizzo Statue

Aug 18, 2017 1429

BY: Claire Sasko

petition to keep the city’s Frank Rizzo statue is gaining steam. As of 4 p.m. Thursday, more than 18,000 people had signed the petition, which was posted on change.org by South Philly resident Marc Ferguson. That’s about 15,000 more signatures than a petition calling for the statue’s removal has gathered. 

Ferguson told CBS3 he created the petition on Tuesday, one day after Councilwoman Helen Gym called for the removal of the former mayor and police commissioner’s statue. The statue’s front-and-center presence (it’s located outside the Municipal Services building near City Hall) has drawn increased criticism in the wake of the Charlottesville violence, which was spurred by white supremacists and neo-Nazis who sought to preserve a Confederate statue.

Read more

SOURCE: http://www.phillymag.com/

You may be interested