During the day, the banyan-shaded streets of West Perrine, a South Miami-Dade neighborhood settled by black farmers and farmhands, offers a leafy contrast to the strip malls and auto dealerships lining U.S. 1 to the east and the stark landscape of new housing complexes along SW 107th Avenue to the west. And while the farms are gone, the lush foliage and dirt driveways maintain the...
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The people and the place (clockwise from above): Frank Pacheco was
severely beaten during a botched drug buy at this street corner; police
later questioned Cornell Clay and Lyvonne Jackson, while arresting and
then dropping charges against Luis Leon