Patricia Smith

Ever since this stuff started, I used to vote. I stopped. I don't even vote no more, I don't. That's sad. But that's the back story of me living down here, of what I see.

I'm not from here. I was brought up in Kennedy Heights. But what they got going on down here is terrible. What I see is, once you get across Central Parkway onto Liberty Street, you can forget about calling the cops for anything, because they're not going to come. For instance, I live in Stanley Rowe. I've been living there for twenty years, and since I've been living there, you might as well say that's the Drop Inn Center. That whole Stanley Rowe has been all on TV, they've been telling lies about they're going to get rid of the building. I called and did my own investigation down there at City Hall, and I asked about the grant money. Okay. They been got grant money. So what did they do? Did they use it on the houses to fix up or? All I want is some help. I'll be sixty two years old, come next month. I just need some help to get out from over there.

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