Frank’s a pretty imposing guy, but I dealt with him for a long time and actually, my father had dealt with him.” “There was Frank, there was his son Franny. “There was a lot of cops out there,” Meyer’s recalls. When asked now if he was nervous during the encounter, the usually unflinching Meyer admits he was. “We coulda shot ya,” the cameraman is told. Rand unlocked the van door, which was promptly thrown open. As you can see in the video, after handing over his press card, Meyer is interrogated by the group about his motives. With Rizzo himself now involved and leading the charge, the cops threatened to break in to see what was actually going on. In the video, as Meyer points out, “You can hear Rizzo’s son say, ‘He’s saying you got a dog in here!’” “For the longest period of time, he tried to put it off.” Rand’s on-the-fly explanation for the cops was that there was just a dog inside. Meyer radioed Rand to attempt to defuse the situation. “He hemmed and hawed with them,” Meyer remembers. I had done others where it was 111 degrees out, but it was kind of a nice day.” This calm wouldn’t last much longer.Īfter noticing the van, a group of police officers from the security detail approached the vehicle and began knocking on the door. It was a “just another stakeout” for Meyer, a pretty standard day’s work. Parked down the block from the house and on the opposite side of Crefeld Street, Meyer sat solo, while producer Robert Rand’s vehicle was parked around the block.
The crew was then given the go-ahead to rent a van for video surveillance of the Rizzo property. The next day at the KYW offices, Meyer explained what he had seen to Tony Lame, head of the station’s I-Team investigative group. While the former police commissioner had a famously close relationship with the police department, if the allegations were true, it would mean that Rizzo was taking advantage of the city’s private security detail posted at his home by having officers do his personal chores. “I thought they were probably his security, but they shouldn’t be doing that.” While driving past the Rizzo residence in Chestnut Hill one day, Meyer noticed something strange - uniformed Philly Police officers raking the leaves of the former mayor’s lawn.
When she makes it clear that she’s uninterested in doing this, though, he finally lies and says he can’t have sex because he had an operation on his “clavichord,” which, despite what he says, is a small stringed keyboard popular in the Late Middle Ages.More than three decades later, Philly native and KYW cameraman Greg Meyer remembers it exactly. Furthermore, the lack of connection between Sunny and Holden emphasizes Holden’s overall loneliness, which is why he asks if she simply wants to talk. If he can’t bring himself to have sex with somebody he knows, it’s extraordinarily unlikely that he’ll be able to convince himself to have sex with a prostitute, since this experience would no doubt be overwhelming to a young person who’s never become so intimate with another person. Even though he constantly postures as an adult, the truth of the matter is that he’s only a teenager yearning for a sense of acceptance and connection. It is unsurprising that Holden doesn’t go through with his plan to have sex with a prostitute, since it’s clear that he’s quite nervous about engaging in sexual intercourse, which is a significant right of passage into adulthood.
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