"Just to see his face," said Gerald Johnson, 41, standing behind it on Bodine Street where he grew up, and where the man on the mural once lived, a narrow block pitted by vacant lots, old neighbors long gone. At the curb, a woman sells potato balls from a cart. "He did so much positive work. It's like he is still watching over the community. Every time I'm in the playground, I feel like he's watching over them kids."