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TRUMP ASSAILS
MEDIA, DENIES
CHAOS CLAIMS
President defends his
weeks-old administration
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IMMIGRANTS
NATIONWIDE STRIKE

TAKE A STAND
OCEAN COUNTY
Patrick Fennell was a decorated law
enforcement veteran with the New York Police
Department.

Hundreds from around Shore area take off work,

close businesses to protest presidents policies SWAT officer
cleared in
fatal shooting
of former cop
KATIE PARK @KATHSPARK

TRENTON - A state grand jury chose not to indict

PHOTOS BY PETER ACKERMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Hundreds of people took part in A Day Without Immigrants rally at Town Square in Lakewood on Thursday.
DAN RADEL @DANIELRADELAPP
LAKEWOOD - Waving flags from their countries
of origin and chanting loudly in Spanish, hundreds of
Hispanics endured the cold to pack Town Square as
part of a nationwide demonstration against President
Donald Trumps immigration policies.
Many took off work, closed their businesses and
even gave their kids a day off from school to partici-
pate in A Day Without Immigrants, a planned strike
to show the impact of immigrants on the U.S. work-
force and economy.
A lot of people wouldnt be in business without us.
Some people think were stealing or that we are
thieves, but we are hard-working people, said Suley-
ma Pacheco, 20, of Toms River, born in New Jersey
and whose parents are from Pueblo, Mexico.
People of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity represent-
ed 15 percent of the U.S. labor force in 2011. By 2020,
they are expected to comprise 19 percent of the labor
force.
Some area restaurants had to do without their
kitchen staff, who took the day off of work to partici-
Local minister Jaime Cortez addresses the rally crowd pate in the nationwide strike.
in Lakewood. We got by. It was a challenge, but we supported
the staff who wanted to participate, said Jim Watt,
owner of Brickwall Tavern and Porta, two Asbury
MORE ONLINE Park restaurants with Hispanics among their kitchen
For videos and photos of the day, visit APP.com and search
Day of Immigrants. See RALLY, Page 2A
I wish it didnt involve the school children. Who really gets hurt here? Its the
the Ocean County SWAT team member who fatally
fired eight bullets in two volleys at a retired New York
City police lieutenant who was intoxicated and wielding
a loaded revolver in the woods last summer, the state
Attorney General said Thursday.
The state grand jury voted no true bill, meaning
they declined to indict the unnamed SWAT officer who
shot and killed 57-year-old Patrick Fennell, a decorated
law enforcement veteran with the New York Police De-
partment, according to a statement from state Attorney
General Christopher Porrino. An officer who reason-
ably believes death or severe injury is imminent is al-
lowed to use deadly force in New Jersey to protect the
officer or another person, Porrino said.
The statement detailed what happened the night of
July 16, when Fennell was shot.
According to the statement, Fennells wife called 911
at 6:52 p.m. to say that her husband was drunk and that
she had heard shots fired in the basement of their Little
Egg Harbor home. She told the 911 operator that she
confronted him in the basement and grabbed some
loose bullets, as he loaded his silver .22-caliber revolv-
er. She told the 911 operator that he then pushed her
aside and headed for the woods behind their home, and
that she was really scared, according to Porrino.
Township police arrived, and then the Ocean County
Regional SWAT Team, was dispatched between 7:30
p.m. and 8 p.m. When they arrived, the scene was dark
and the weather was hot and muggy. When SWAT offi-
cers went looking for Fennell, the SWAT team used a
See DEATH, Page 15A
MORE ONLINE
To read more about this case, visit APP.com and search for
Patrick Fennell.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some of the lobbyists, business owners and politicians rush to
the train taking them to Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

kids, they dont learn. Its not a legal requirement to go to work, but it is a
legal requirement to go to school. ROCCO G. TOMAZIC SUPERINTENDENT OF FREEHOLD BOROUGH SCHOOLS Political bigwigs
take annual train
trip to Washington
Judge refuses to free Stern suspect DUSTIN RACIOPPI @DRACIOPPI

KATHLEEN HOPKINS @KHOPKINSAPP
FREEHOLD - The Neptune man accused of help-
ing to throw 19-year-old Sarah Sterns body off of the
Belmar bridge lost a second bid to be released from
jail pending trial.
Superior Court Judge David F. Bauman Thursday
rejected an argument by Preston Taylors attorney to
reopen an earlier detention hearing in which he de-
clined to release 19-year-old Taylor from jail.
If Bauman had reopened the hearing, defense at-
torney John Perrone was prepared to ask the judge to
MORE ONLINE
For videos and additional stories about the Sarah Stern
murder case, visit on.app.com/stern.
reconsider his Feb. 7 decision to keep Taylor, Sterns
junior prom date, in the Monmouth County Jail until
his trial.
Taylor is charged with concealing Sterns remains,
See STERN, Page 4A
Heralding his record as bipartisan and business-
minded, Gov. Chris Christie warned hundreds of lobby-
ists and lawmakers gathered in Washington, D.C., on
Thursday night that candidates competing this year to
replace him are over-promising what can be delivered
and that the progress of his two terms could rapidly be
undone.
Taking the stage at the annual dinner with the states
congressional delegation in his final year as governor,
Christie ticked off a list of highlights of his tenure - an
unemployment rate below the national average, the ad-
dition of 278,000 new jobs and a series of nominal tax
cuts as part of a transportation package. But with a gu-
bernatorial election in November, Christie noted that

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son in state politics and the temptation will be for us
to go to our own separate corners to run down the image
of our state, to talk about how awful things are and how,

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