Opinion: I guess they’d know something about using force....
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The gang truce offered by the notorious 204th Street ‘bangers down in the Harbor Gateway area contains a proposal that some might suggest is an apt (or at least funny) metaphor for certain notions of redevelopment:
Najee Ali, an activist who runs Project Islamic Hope and negotiated the truce with the 204th Street gang, said the gang members are asking the city to use its eminent domain powers to accumulate land for a recreation center. The 12-square-block neighborhood has no park, school, community center or church and has only one business — a small market that the gang claims as its territory. ‘The only way the truce is going to hold is if city leaders do their part and bring in more resources,’ Ali said.
Though it’s definitely true that Harbor could use more parks.