Wow, I didn t realize it was so cold, she says.
She turns and heads slowly down the sidewalk, being careful not to slip on the dusting of snow covering her path. Her left leg doesn t move as easily as her right. Pratt has a discernible limp, caused partly by the steel rod in her tibia but also because nerve damage makes it difficult to feel her toes.
She has been healing for six months, ever since a wooden projectile fired by a Toledo police officer shattered her leg as she was holding a sign in front of The Attic at the corner of Adams and 17th Street.