Frank Rizzo: Philadelphia’s Tough Cop Turned Mayor
Posted by William Kashatus on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Frank Rizzo: Philadelphia’s Tough Cop Turned Mayor On Saturday night, August 29, 1970, unknown assailants shot to death Philadelphia police sergeant Frank Von Colln while stationed in a small guardhouse in the Cobbs Creek section of the city’s expansive Fairmount Park. No one witnessed the killing, but police suspected that it was the work of the Black Panther Party, an African American revolutionary organization that endorsed violence as a...read more