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Wasn't sure where to post this so if there is a more appropriate place, please move it. Please no Trayvon Martin discussions here. All posts going in that direction will be deleted(hopefully).

 

A block club leader in Cleveland who runs a tight ship

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The furor over the Trayvon Martin killing, at the hands of a neighborhood watch captain, makes me think about the purpose that such watch groups serve.

 

It especially makes me think of Cleveland's Mount Pleasant neighborhood, home of the most no-nonsense street club leader I've ever met, Sam Smith.

 

Smith is a human fence around his block on East 151st Street.

Every day he stands watch over his street, ready to keep out the bad element and protect his neighbors.

 

^ Woops! Thanks!

  • 10 months later...

Renamed.

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

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