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Men Charged In New Jersey H. S. Football Game Shooting
For Obama And Patrick, A Long Friendship And Political Bond
A number of men have been charged after a shooting at a New Jersey high school football game that critically wounded a 10-year-old boy and sent play- ers and the packed crowd flee- ing in panic.
Ibn Abdullah, 27, was the target of the Friday night shoot- ing and was charged because a gun was found on him when emergency responders went to his aid, authorities said. He is in stable condition and will be un- dergoing surgery.
The 10-year-old remained in critical condition Saturday. A
15-year-old boy was treated for a graze wound.
The shooting happened in the stands of a Friday night playoff game between the Cam- den Panthers and the Pleas- antville Greyhounds. Authorities said it did not ap- pear that any of the men charged had any connection to the game.
“Our community will not be held hostage by a few idiots in- tent on jeopardizing our safety and the safety of our children,” Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon Tyner said in a news
release.
Tyner said the shooting was
“petty vengeance against one another.”
Alvin Wyatt, 31, of At- lantic City, was charged with three counts of attempted mur- der and two weapons counts. He was captured on the football field moments after the shoot- ing by a Pleasantville officer who was part of the game’s se- curity detail.
Three other men face weapons charges, and a fourth faces weapons and eluding charges.
THE MEN CHARGED IN THE SHOOTING
WASHINGTON — Deval Patrick was in need of a pep talk.
He was staring down reelec- tion as Massachusetts governor in 2010, in the midst of a slug- gish economic recovery that would ultimately contribute to sweeping Democratic defeats across the country. In stepped President Barack Obama, a close friend and political ally, who was in town for an event. The two men met for a “get in the game” conversation that helped put Patrick on the path to a second term.
“I think it was very meaning- ful to Deval,” said David Ax- elrod, a political adviser to both Obama and Patrick. “That’s the kind of relationship they have. There’s a level of trust and mutual caring be- tween them.”
That relationship will test whether Obama can maintain his vigorously neutral approach to the 2020 Democratic primary now that Patrick has launched a late bid for the presidential nomination. Although Obama has ties to several candidates — most notably Joe Biden, who spent eight years as his No. 2 in the White House — his ties to Patrick are unique. The two men were friends well before the White House years and have bonded over shared personal experiences and a strikingly similar approach to politics.
“They both had Chicago roots, they both had the Har- vard experience and they shared a set of values,” Axelrod said.
OBAMA AND PATRICK
“You go back and listen to some of Patrick’s speeches from when he was running for gover- nor and you hear echoes of Obama.”
Obama advisers say there are currently no plans for the former president to endorse in the Democratic primary race, though he’s met with most of the major candidates and is said to be following the primary campaign closely. Yet advisers have purposely left some wiggle room in that position, well aware that there could be a mo- ment that demands the input of the nation’s most popular De- mocrat, particularly if the pri- mary appears to be headed toward a contentious conclu- sion.
For now, the former presi- dent appears content to stay on the sidelines and offer occa- sional counsel to the candidates he is closest to, including Patrick.
Anjanette Young said she was relaxing on Thursday night with an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” when Chicago police burst in with guns drawn and handcuffed her while she was naked. As it turns out, the cops raided the wrong house — a common occurrence in the city.
“I’ll never forget it. Febru- ary 21st,” Young said. “[I] had undressed in my bed- room, getting ready to get comfortable. And then I hear these loud slams.”
Anjanette said she grabbed a jacket right as the cops burst through the front door with their guns pointed.
“Before I knew it, there was a swarm of police officers,” she said. “They had these big guns, long guns with scopes and lights... I thought they were going to shoot me.”
Young said officers yelled at her to put her hands up, so she complied, causing the jacket to fall out of her hands. Police handcuffed her while
ANJANETTE YOUNG
she was still naked.
“I can just remember cry-
ing and yelling, ‘Please let me put my clothes on...you have the wrong place,” she said. “I can see it all over again...I can see them walking around my house and feeling like, feeling humiliated.”
Police raided her home acting on a tip from an in- formant about a 23-year-old
man with ammunition and a handgun. But CBS 2 found they didn’t do sufficient re- search, which would have re- vealed (through publicly available information) the address of the suspect they were in search of was listed address across the street from Young’s home.
“It just felt like they didn’t even consider me a person or had any concern of who may live in the home because they didn’t even check,” Young said. “Everything about that apartment is in my name.
“If they had done any front end research,” she continued, “I think I would never be sit- ting here telling this story.”
The officers eventually let her make a phone call, and she phoned Reverend Ray Hawkins, the associate pas- tor at her church. When he arrived on the scene to con- sole her, he found Young “shaking and crying” and “to- tally in the nude [during the raid].”
Chicago Police Handcuffed Naked Woman During Wrong Raid
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