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  • Block-thrower damages car & shakes activist's view of Sarasota [or liberal meets concrete block]

    05/05/2006 8:01:45 AM PDT · by dukeman · 74 replies · 2,038+ views
    Sarasota Herald Tribune ^ | 5/5/06 | Louise Kennedy
    On April 12, a Wednesday, a boulder-size concrete block was hurled at my car as I passed the Janie Poe public-housing complex on Central Avenue in Sarasota's Newtown. [The predominantly black neighborhood north of downtown.] It narrowly missed the windshield and, after swerving out the way of oncoming traffic, I hotheadedly pulled a U-turn back toward the 15 or so youths -- who appeared to be 12- to 18-year-olds -- standing in front of and just beyond the wall of an apartment at the edges of Janie Poe. I turned into 23rd Street and called 911, and several of the...