At 72, James Hawkins fights back against street toughs
He is only 5 ft. 4 in. and 140 Ibs., a 72-year-old man looking like a victim waiting to be taken. Instead James Hawkins is becoming the hero of Watts, Los Angeles, a crusader in a war with street toughs who have vowed to run him out of the neighborhood where he has lived and worked for 42 years and raised 14 children. In the past six weeks, he has been shot at and his home has been riddled by bullets and scarred by bombs. Hawkins'...
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