Stories/Essays: Senseless Streets: mbgang11-01

{quote}Uncle{quote} Joe Hunter, a reformed gangster turned preacher, leaves Juvenile Court with a witness he brought to testify in a gang shooting. Hunter says he tries to help everybody, and that he couldn't help anyone without the gang leaders' blessings. {quote}I couldn't do what I do,{quote} Uncle Joe says. {quote}They could shut me down in a heartbeat.{quote}(Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)

"Uncle" Joe Hunter, a reformed gangster turned preacher, leaves Juvenile Court with a witness he brought to testify in a gang shooting. Hunter says he tries to help everybody, and that he couldn't help anyone without the gang leaders' blessings. "I couldn't do what I do," Uncle Joe says. "They could shut me down in a heartbeat." 

(Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)