Philadelphia is a tough town

This story, "Block captain shot in North Phila.," reports that "A 62-year-old woman who served as a block captain, fighting crime in her North Philadelphia neighborhood, was shot yesterday and forced to call for help on her cell phone after local merchants would not open their doors for her, police and family members said." ... "Yesterday's shooting was especially hard, Marcel Logan said, because after the shooting, employees in one store would not open the door when Latricia Logan asked for help, and in another store, no one called police for her. "She's discouraged, but I think she'll bounce back," Marcel Logan said."

Makes it kind of tough to want to reach out and help small business owners.

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