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...been spit upon, chased, beaten up "dozens of times," called "nigger" and had a beer bottle broken over his head. "I feel like we don't belong in our own home," he says. Which seems fine by those whites in Bridgeport whose greatest fear is encroachment from the Stateway projects, part of a stretch of high-rise ghettos on Chicago's South Side where the porches are caged in steel mesh, 70% of the residents are under the age of 17, and, in the words of Sarah Johnson, a 19-year-old mother, "You just keep the little kids inside...
...evening of his brutal encounter, Lenard and two friends pedaled from the Stateway Garden public housing projects to the edge of Bridgeport, where they hoped to get some free air for their bikes and snatch a quick game of basketball on a court that sits in the shadows of Comiskey Park. After the game, Lenard was surrounded and attacked by several teenagers. Within 48 hours, three suspects had been arrested. Freed on bail, all have denied involvement in the incident. But the fact that police were led to them by Bridgeport residents, several of whom are white, bespeaks an outrage...
...forbade the police to conduct sweeps of public-housing projects during which they searched apartments without obtaining warrants. The judge in March modified the order to allow cops to ransack without warning a building's "common areas" (lobbies, hallways, stairwells), and it was such a "vertical patrol" of the Stateway Gardens complex that Ghost joined. But Judge Andersen agreed with an American Civil Liberties Union complaint that warrantless searches of individual apartments violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids "unreasonable searches and seizures...
Those who disagree include no small number of the people the ACLU claims to be representing: the tenants of public-housing projects. In the Robert Taylor Homes just south of Stateway Gardens, Ray Goodwin, 9, describes how one of his friends was gunned down on the monkey bars in a neighborhood playground "because he didn't want to be in a gang." Says Goodwin: "I want the sweeps. There be too many guns in our buildings." Around Easter they went off at an especially horrifying rate: after a truce between the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples gangs apparently broke down...
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