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The Rev. Jesse Jackson
arrested at gun sholp
demonstration; calls
CHICAGO (AP) - The
Rev. Jesse Jackson was
arrested Saturday at a
demonstration outside a
suburban Chicago gun
shop and charged with
one count of criminal
trespass to property.
The civil rights leader
was arrested when he
refused to move away
from the entrance to
Chuck’s Gun Shop in
Riverdale, police said.
He has protested with
other community
activists outside the shop
in recent weeks after a
16-year-old honor stu
dent was gunned down
on a city bus.
Police said the shooting
was gang-related but the
teen was not the intend
ed target.
Jackson, who says the
gun shop’s proximity to
Chicago provides gang
members and criminals
casy access to firearms,
has used the protests o
call for stricter gun laws.
The Rev. Michael
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developer, did not return
calls Wednesday. Nor did
owners of Brennan Station
and Bent Tree.
Riders feel insulted
Riders say the ban from the
centers adds insult to a long
list of discomforts. Many
stops lack benches, let alone
shelters to keep out the sun.
At Brier Creek on Wednes
day, people waited on an
overturned Target cart.
Many routes, including
Brier Creek, send buses once
an hour. Miss it, as Watkins
did Wednesday, and you wait
another furious 60 minutes
on the shopping cart.
Then the ride from down
town Raleigh to jobs in
North Raleigh can take an
hour. Tack on a walk to the
end of that and it’s hard to
greet customers with a smile.
“When it's pouring,” said
Winston George, who rides
from Durham to his job at
Bob Evans in Brier Creek,
“It’s even worse.”
Watkins has to walk two-
Gangs :
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increase youth activities
and community centers.
However, remember for
every kid who becomes
bored and joins a gang,
that there are ten who
find positive and produc
tive ways to spend their
time.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson
Pfleger, a Catholic priest
who oversees a congrega
tion on Chicago’s South
Side, also was arrested
and charged with Jack
son. '
A message secking
comment from the gun
shop was not immediate
ly returned Saturday
afternoon.
Two teens have been
charged as adults with
taking part in the May
shooting of Blair Holt,
an honor student at
Julian High School.
tenths of a mile to her job at
Home Goods. But its the
finale to a long unpleasant
ness. Her ride takes an hour
and 20 minutes, once she has
navigated the stops between
Southeast Raleigh and Brier
Creek. There is no shelter on
the sidewalk where she waits,
nor a bench. On Tuesday,
two women waited for the
bus sitting on the ground
under a tree, and they pulled
their shirts over their noses
when a dump truck passed
and filled the air with black
fumes.
“And it’s all in the heat,”
Watkins said, who added
lack of air-conditioning to
her list of woes. “I have got
ten on buses in the last three
weeks, and it’s hotter on the
inside than it is outside.”
Both Towne North and
Brier Creek market them
selves to well-off shoppers.
Craig Davis' Web site touts
the recent “upscale” redevel
opment at Towne North and
its location in “affluent
North Raleigh.” On its Web
site, American Asset Corp.
calls Brier Creek “an open-air
Finally, if poverty is a
condition, despair must
be a state of mind, Peo
ple who grow up poor
know their parents were
poor- there perception of
their situation is that
there will be not change.
They are surrounded by
drugs and gangs. Their
parents may even be
addicts. A gang, at times,
AUGUSTA FOCUS
Teen loses feet In Six Flags accident
(AP) - Officials at a
Louisville amusement park say
both of a teenage girl’s legs were
severed above the ankle
while on a thrill ride at the
park. Six Flags Kentucky
Kingdom spokeswoman
Wendy Goldgcrg says the
accident happened around
4:45 p.m. Thursday on the
Superman Tower of Power.
The girl’'s name and home
town have not been
released because she is a
minor.
A broken cable could be
seen sticking out from the
side of the tower
Chris Williams, who wit
nessed the event, told CBS
affiliate WLKY that riders
saw the cable break as it
sot to the top on the right
fiand . side.
Treva Smith said it
snapped again as the ride
descended.
“The people on the ride
just came and hit the
ground,” Smith said.
Next, Williams said he saw
the teen maimed.
“As the ride came down,
the wire swung left, struck
the young lady on the back
side of my children,”
Williams said.
Williams™ daughter had
lifestyle center ... located in
one of the Raleigh market’s
most affluent and rapidly
growing submarkets.”
Access is too public
Just across Glenwood
Avenue from Brier Creek,
buses are allowed in Alexan
der Place Promenade,
anchored by a Wal-Mart
Supercenter.
“They come to Wal-Mart,”
George said.. “Why not
here?”
A retail property’s value is
closely tied to the income of
the people it serves, but bro
kers say it makes no sense to
prevent access.
“Having public access is
always an amenity,” said
John Laßocca, a senior vice
president at Raleigh real
estate services firm Grubb &
Ellis/Thomas Linderman
Graham. “You want as many
people to come there as pos
sible. I can't think of a shop
ping center thats trying to
steer people away. ... Remov
ing a bus stop would be lim
iting their ability to attract
those customers.” Margaret
King, 53, rides the bus every-
may feel like the only
family the member has.
A gang also gives a sense
of belonging. Some par-.
ents even approve of it,
because they have been
in a gang themselves. We
will continue next week
with a study on gang his
tory as we lay the foun
dation to knock out our
gang problem.
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traded seats with the 13-
year-old, and was sitting
on the other side of the
ride.
Smith told WLKY she
raced to the ride to find
members of her group who
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“When I got up there, the
lady, she was just sitting
there and she didn't have
no legs,” Smith said. “She
didn't have no legs at all.
She was just calm, proba
bly in shock from every
thing.”
Goldberg says it’s unclear
at what point during the
ride the 13-year-old girl
was injured. She was taken
to University Hospital.
There was no word on her
condition.
“My son’s over there trip-
where for her house-cleaning
business.
Waiting an hour in the
sun, witfiout shelter, is one
thing. Walking the bus-to
shopping center gap is
another.
“Sometimes you walk a
mile, feels like,” she said.
“Ride the bus, you're in for
a rude awakening.”
Staft writer Jack Hagel
contributed to this report.
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The ride lifts passengers
177 feet straight up, then
drops 154 feet, reaching a
speed of 54 miles per hour
according to the park’s
website. It opened in
1995, then known as “the
Hellevator,” reports the
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The ride has been shut
down indefinitely while
park officials investigate
what caused the accident.
The rest of the park
remained open.
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