DETROIT – RoboCop has finally found a permanent home in Detroit.

A statue looming 11 feet tall (3.3 meters) and weighing 3,500 pounds (1,587 kilograms) began standing guard over the Motor City on Wednesday afternoon.

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“It was snowstorm, dark and below 30 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-1.1 degree Celsius) and there was a steady stream of people driving by,” after it was erected, said Jim Toscano, co-owner of the FREE AGE film production company where the bronze-cast statue now stands bolted into a concrete patio. “You can walk right up to and walk all the way around it.”

It took about 15 years before the idea finally found a home , and almost four decades since the popular science fiction film “RoboCop” hit theaters in 1987.

Set in what was supposed to be the near-futur

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