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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4842847" data-attributes="member: 56035">hes all too familiar with &quot;policing&quot; tactics in the ghettosJames was born on December 30, 1984, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akron,_Ohio" target="_blank">Akron, Ohio</a>, to Gloria Marie James, who was 16 at the time of his birth.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James#cite_note-Jones2003-5" target="_blank">[5]</a>:22 His father, Anthony McClelland, has an extensive criminal record and was not involved in his life.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James#cite_note-6" target="_blank">[6]</a> When James was growing up, life was often a struggle for the family, as they moved from apartment to apartment in the seedier neighborhoods of Akron while Gloria struggled to find steady work.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James#cite_note-jockbio-7" target="_blank">[7]</a> Realizing that her son would be better off in a more stable family environment, Gloria allowed him to move in with the family of Frank Walker, a local youth football coach who introduced James to basketball when he was nine years old.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James#cite_note-Jones2003-5" target="_blank">[5]</a><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🔢" title="Input numbers&nbsp; &nbsp; :1234:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f522.png" data-shortname=":1234:" /> [URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 4842847, member: 56035"] hes all too familiar with "policing" tactics in the ghettos James was born on December 30, 1984, in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akron,_Ohio']Akron, Ohio[/URL], to Gloria Marie James, who was 16 at the time of his birth.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James#cite_note-Jones2003-5'][5][/URL]:22 His father, Anthony McClelland, has an extensive criminal record and was not involved in his life.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James#cite_note-6'][6][/URL] When James was growing up, life was often a struggle for the family, as they moved from apartment to apartment in the seedier neighborhoods of Akron while Gloria struggled to find steady work.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James#cite_note-jockbio-7'][7][/URL] Realizing that her son would be better off in a more stable family environment, Gloria allowed him to move in with the family of Frank Walker, a local youth football coach who introduced James to basketball when he was nine years old.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James#cite_note-Jones2003-5'][5][/URL]🔢 [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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