| Angel Arce Torres 35 Park St. Hartford, Connecticut Hit And |
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NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 4,
2008
HARTFORD POLICE RELEASE VIDEO OF HIT AND RUN;
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE REQUESTED IN IDENTIFYING
SUSPECTS
(Hartford) - On Friday, May 30, 2008, at
approximately 5:45 p.m. Hartford Police were
responding to an unrelated call for service
when one of the responding officers came upon
a pedestrian lying in the road in front of 33
Park Street. The pedestrian was found to be
suffering from head injuries after being
struck by a motor vehicle. Emergency Medical
Services were called and transported the
pedestrian, later identified as Angel Torres,
78 years of age, of Hartford, to Hartford
Hospital.
Witnesses reported that two vehicles were
being operated in a reckless manner North on
Main Street. The front vehicle, described as
a tan older model Toyota, was being chased by
a blue or black older model Honda. The
vehicles proceeded through a red traffic
control signal on Main Street taking a left
onto Westbound Park Street. The vehicles
crossed the center line, traveling against
traffic, in front of 33 Park Street where the
Honda struck Mr. Torres. The two vehicles
continued West on Park Street and turned
right onto Northbound John Street, evading
the scene.
Mr. Torres is listed in critical condition at
Hartford Hospital, paralyzed from the neck
down.
The Hartford Police Crime Scene Division has
taken control of the investigation. The
incident was caught on video which has been
enhanced by the Connecticut State Police
Forensic Science Laboratory. The video clip
showing the suspect vehicles can be viewed by
clicking on the link below or by visiting the
HPD's website, www.hartford.gov/police.
Hartford police ask anyone with information
regarding this incident and/or the identity
of the suspects to please contact Crime Scene
Division (CSD) Detective Michael Chauvin at
860-757-4229 or CSD Commander Sergeant Jason
Thody at 860-757-4225.
Video of May 30th, 2008, hit and run of Angel
Torres at 33 Park Street, Hartford.
Association Against Aggressive Driving-Join
to stop aggressive driving.
http://www.freewebs.com/associationagainstagg
ressivedriving/index.htm
I downloaded the video from the Hartford
Police directly not the Associated Press, and
it was offered by the Hartford Police as a
free download. The video was shot by public
cameras funded by public taxes, and should
not be allowed to be copyrighted by a private
company. This is owned by the Hartford
Police, and if they gave the copyrights away
they have no right, because it is owned by
the public, and paid for by their tax dollar
therefore it is in public domain.
I posted this video here at YouTube, and I
did not put it here for people to bash the
United States. I have seen statistics while
working on my other website The Association
Against Aggressive Driving, and the
statistics clearly pointed to the fact that
this is a worldwide problem. The two car look
to be to be in a chase, and if I had to bet
the car in the front most likely cut the car
in the back off. This looks to me to be one
of those incidents where they said you're not
going to get away with this, and because of
it this man was seriously hurt. It look to me
like the people are coming out of a sidewalk
between two buildings, and it probably is a
regular place to cross even if there are no
lines painted on the road. Their reactions
are in some cases slow, but I think that they
were most likely shocked by what they see.
Lets put the blame where it belongs, and that
is the two car that were driving in the wrong
side of the road. People have no patience for
anybody else on the road these days for the
most part, and they have no real concern for
anybody's safety. I have been ticked off for
years about the lack of concern, and the
total lack of traffic enforcement by the
police. That is what I started the AAAD
online to change thing, so please look it
over, and join us.
http://www.freewebs.com/associationagainstagg
ressivedriving/
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| Allen Iverson (Georgetown) vs Ray Allen (Connecticut) 1995 |
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For those who were there at McDonough
Gymnasium on August 4, 1994, few will forget
the arrival of a 6-0 freshman guard who
needed no introduction. The rumors of Allen
Iverson's arrival to the Kenner Summer League
were true, and by game's end, Iverson had
scored 40 points. By the Sunday afternoon
final, before an overflow crowd inside the
gym and a crowd of those outside who could
not get in, Iverson finished a combined 99
point effort in three days against some of
the best collegiate talent in the city. This,
of course, from a player that had not played
organized basketball in over a year.
The Allen Iverson years had begun.
A brief profile can't do justice to tell the
story of one of the greatest pure athletes
ever to attend Georgetown, a man without peer
in his talent over two years at the
collegiate level. Just a year before his
Kenner debut, few would have imagined Allen
Iverson ever playing college basketball.
Iverson was not only a 31 point a game guard
for Bethel HS, but a football player of
tremendous skill. As a quarterback and
defensive back his sophomore season, he
produced nearly 1,600 yards offense and 13
INT's. By his junior year, he accounted for
2,204 yards, 21 touchdowns by rush or
interception, and 14 touchdown passes. In a
region which has produced NFL quarterbacks
such as Michael Vick and Aaron Brooks, there
are those who will still say "Bubbachuck"
Iverson was better than both of them. Schools
such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Duke, and three
dozen other top programs across two sports
were vying for perhaps the greatest two-sport
star the Tidewater had ever produced.
When he led Bethel to the state title,
someone asked what it was like to win the
title. "I'm going to get one in basketball
now," which he did. In late February, 1993,
en route to the state title he had promised,
Iverson was one of a large group of Bethel
teammates at a Hampton bowling alley when a
fight broke out between students from rival
schools trading racial insults. Three people
were hurt in the aftermath. Despite
conflicting testimony from eyewitnesses and
no clear evidence linking him to the crime,
Iverson was one of four black students
arrested.
Racial tensions were heightened when the
prosecutors passed on a misdemeanor assault
charge and charged Iverson with three counts
of felony "maiming by mob", which carried a
20 year prison sentence. Despite video
evidence which did not place Iverson in the
crowd at the time of the fight, he was
convicted in a racially charged case.
The 20 year sentence was later reduced to
five, and Iverson was granted clemency by
Gov. Douglas Wilder three months later,
sending Iverson to a detention program at an
alternative high school. (The original
charges were thrown out by the Virginia court
of appeals in 1995.)
In the spring of 1994, with Iverson still in
detention, his mother approached John
Thompson with a plea to help her son get to
college and start a new chapter of his life.
Though Thompson had passed on a number of
troubled players in the past, he offered
Iverson a scholarship in April of that
season, contingent upon his completion of
high school and his legal release, which was
granted 48 hours before his Kenner debut.
By his debut in a Georgetown uniform in
November 1994, Iverson had been the subject
of intense national media attention. In the
Hoyas' annual exhibition with Fort Hood,
Iverson scored 36 points, five assists, and
three steals in 23 minutes. Local columnists
were in awe.
"Hang his number up in the rafters," wrote
Tom Knott of the Washington Times. "He's
better than most of the point guards in the
NBA right now."
"I saw Lew Alcindor, Austin Carr, Moses
Malone, Alonzo Mourning, Albert King, Ralph
Sampson and Patrick Ewing play in high
school," said the Post's Thomas Boswell.
"Now, I have two memories on my first
impression top shelf. The man who became
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Allen Iverson."
Iverson opened the 1994-95 season in Memphis,
TN in a 97-79 loss to defending NCAA champion
Arkansas, scoring 19 points. Six days later,
he scored 31 in a nationally televised game
with DePaul, followed by 30 four days later
against Providence, leading the team in
scoring 22 times that season. His only game
under double figures for the season (and his
career) was a game where he played only ten
minutes in a loss at Villanova, a game
Georgetown coach John Thompson threatened to
forfeit when a group of Villanova students
paraded through the Spectrum in black and
white-striped prison garb, with a sign
comparing Iverson to O.J. Simpson.
"You accept certain ribbing, but there is a
line," Thompson said after the game. "I
canî–¹ condone any Christian university
sitting and watching that happen...If that
happens [again], Iî–² going to walk. Itî–¸
that simple." Such fan behavior was not seen
thereafter.
Later in the season, with President Bill
Clinton in attendance, Iverson scored 26 as
the Hoyas routed Villanova, 77-52. He
followed it up with 21 to beat Syracuse, 28
versus St. John's, 31 in a Big East
tournament opener with Miami (a game that saw
Iverson outscore the entire Hurricane team at
the end of the first half), and 27 versus
Connecticut in the semis. In the NCAA
regional, he scored 24 in the loss, but held
Jeff McInnis to 1 for 8 shooting. By season's
end, Allen Iverson had been named Big East
Player of the Week nine times, Rookie of the
Year, a second team all-conference selection,
and honorable mention All-America recipient.
Having led the Hoyas in points and steals en
route to the school's first NCAA regional
appearance since 1989, Iverson was already a
star. By 1996, he would become nothing less
than a sensation.
The leaser of a talented team that featured
four future NBA stars, Allen Iverson
dominated the 1995-96 season as no Hoya has
done before or since. Adept at the crossover
dribble that became his NBA trademark,
lightning quick to the basket, and able to
score on opponents at will, Iverson was
largely unstoppable. Even more impressive was
an effort to improve his shooting touch, for
despite averaging 20.4 points as a freshman
in 1994-95 (2nd all time for a Georgetown
rookie), Iverson only shot 39 percent from
the field, 23 percent from three, and 19
percent from three in Big East play. For his
sophomore season, his field shooting
increased to 48 percent, his three point mark
to 36 percent. The results were striking.
In the pre-season NIT versus Temple, Iverson
shot 50 percent for 24 points and a career
high 10 rebounds. After a 23 point effort
against Georgia Tech, he scored a career high
40 against Arizona, one of two 40+ point
games that season. In Big East play, Iverson
could ring up points with ease, such as the
game where he scored 21 points in only 20
minutes against Rutgers.
In the final three months of the season,
Iverson led the team in 21 of the team's 25
games: 40 against Seton Hall, 39 against St.
John's, 34 against Providence. He scored 30
in a wild win over Memphis, and followed it
up two nights later with 26 in an upset of #3
Connecticut. For the game, Iverson totalled
26 points, 8 steals, and 6 assists, including
a soaring dunk past Ray Allen and the
Huskies. It was the highest ranked team any
Georgetown team had defeated since 1988. His
best performance of the season might have
been a 37 point, 8 rebound, and three steal
effort against #6 ranked Villanova, playing
only 27 minutes. The 106-68 win represents
the sixth largest margin of victory and the
largest margin ever by a Georgetown team
against a top 10 opponent.
Iverson was capable of an off game;
unfortunately, two came at particularly
inopportune times for the Hoyas' hopes for a
national title. Entering the 1996 Big East
Final with a #1 seed on the line, Iverson
shot 4 for 15 and the Hoyas lost by one,
76-75. As a result of the loss, Georgetown
was seeded #2 behind top ranked UMass, and in
the regional final between the two teams
Iverson struggled with a 6 for 21 effort in
the loss. For the season, though, his
statistics were astonishing: his 926 points
broke the then-record by 124 points. He set
new single season marks in field goals, field
goal attempts, three pointers, three point
attempts, steals, minutes, and scoring
average (25.0), the latter of which ranked
7th in the nation that season. The Big East's
defensive player of the year, he was named a
consensus All-American amidst numerous other
awards.
If he could somehow have stayed four years,
Iverson undoubtedly would have shredded the
Georgetown record books. But whatever hopes
existed for Iverson to resist the lure of the
NBA were short lived, particularly with the
news that one of his sisters had fallen ill.
Seeing the opportunity to take care of his
family's medical needs, Iverson announced for
the NBA draft soon after the end of his
sophomore season, becoming the first
Georgetown player in the Thompson era to do
so. The compact that had bound so many great
Hoya players to a four year commitment--from
Ewing to Williams, Mourning to Mutombo--had
now been broken.
The first pick in the 1996 NBA draft, Iverson
signed a $3.9 million contract with the
Philadelphia 76ers and a ten year, $50
million deal with Reebok. His effort on the
court is well known and respected, but for
all the media portrayals of Iverson as the
anti-hero, an icon of a "Hip Hop Nation" that
ran counter to the NBA's carefully
constructed marketing image, or as a symbol
of all that is allegedly wrong in
professional basketball, he remains
remarkably well-grounded.
Married for six years and the father of two,
Iverson is fiercely loyal to his teammates
and to his childhood friends. He considered
it an honor to play for the U.S. Olympic team
in 2004 when other NBA stars passed on the
offer, and maintains a number of charity
events to benefit his local community. In
comparison to his NBA career, his years at
Georgetown were largely free of the intense
media and personal scrutiny, providing at
least two years where he could grow as a
person as well as a basketball player.
His arrival and exit at Georgetown is still a
source of debate in some circles, but his
performance on the court is not. Allen
Iverson found a home, even briefly, at the
Hilltop, and remains one of its brightest
stars. "In my heart, I know I'm a basketball
player," Iverson said following his 2006 NBA
trade, "being that I know I can play with the
best of them."
From that first Kenner League game on 1994,
no one has doubted it since.
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| Connecticut State Police Academy Graduation |
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hail, hail State Police..........
The Connecticut State Police graduated 73 new
State Troopers, all members of the 117th
Training Troop, on July 20, 2006.
Department of Public Safety Commissioner
Leonard C. Boyle and Colonel Edward Lynch,
Commanding Officer of the State Police,
congratulated the graduating class during a
ceremony at Jorgensen Auditorium at the
University of Connecticut. Gov. M. Jodi Rell
was the keynote speaker at the event.
The 117th training troop entered the
Connecticut State Police Academy on January
20, 2006, and spent approximately 1,400 hours
in the classroom. They also spent many more
hours training in physical conditioning,
water rescue, driving and other specialized
areas of police work.
The 73 members of this class began the
process of becoming State Troopers more than
a year ago. They applied for the positions,
took the written test and physical fitness
assessment, along with observational tests
and polygraph tests.(ed. --CT Department of
Public Safety Press Release)
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