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Storm recovery worker beaten by angry crowd

 
Published Sept. 21, 2004|Updated Aug. 28, 2005

(ran East edition)

An Atlanta man helping clean up Pasco County after Frances said he was beaten by a crowd outside a bar in Dade City early Sunday.

Jakale Dison, 26, told the Pasco Sheriff's Office he ran into several cars with his pickup in front of Cooper's Place, a bar on Center Street in Carver Heights. It was 3 a.m., and Dison told deputies he had had several drinks, a sheriff's report said.

That's when a crowd _ Dison couldn't say how many people _ started hitting him with fists and unknown objects. It appeared to be retaliation for damage done to their cars.

An ambulance took the semiconscious Dison to Pasco Regional Medical Center. His injuries weren't severe. As of Monday, no one had been arrested. Onlookers in Carver Heights, among Pasco's poorest neighborhoods, wouldn't give deputies information on the assailants.