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4B Weekend Edition - October 3-4, 2020 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com LOCAL TRAINING ■ Continued from 1B Photos by SCOTT ROGERS I The Times K-9 Warden gets training Wednesday, Sept. 30, as Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office join the fire department’s swift water rescue and numerous other police agencies on Lake Lanier. should the need arise. Only a small percentage of Lake Lanier is considered inside Gwinnett County. This was the first training for Gwinnett County Police since the death of Blue, a SWAT dog fatally shot Sept. 10 while tracking a suspect who fled from a stolen vehi cle in Norcross. Blue was the depart ment’s first dedicated SWAT dog and had worked for the agency for more than a year. “In Blue’s case, he did his job that day, and officers went home safe to their fam ilies,” Carlyle said. Gwinnett County Cpl. Caleb Jefferson said the training for Warden, who has been on the job for six weeks for Duluth Police, will help him become acquainted with the stimuli of a police search. “The boat, the water, the environment they’re in — they need to push through that and do their job, which is to go and find the suspect so we can arrest (them),” Carlyle said. It was Warden’s first time doing a search like this in the water, Jefferson said, as the dog’s handler, Phil Hal- laday took hold of the leash once they both reached the shore. “It took a little bit of encouragement to get off the boat,” Jefferson said, as the dog jumped from the vessel and swam a few yards toward the island. Almost every track Jef ferson has been on recently involved some type of waterway, whether it’s a pond, a creek or a river. “We just always want to have the knowledge that the dogs are going to perform well and perform safely for everybody, no matter if it’s the lake or a pond in some body’s backyard,” he said. The officer acting as the suspect had his arm wrapped in a material with Kevlar underneath it. The dogs are trained to grab hold at the suspect’s extremities — forearms, calves, biceps, triceps — to cause the least amount of damage possible, Jefferson said. Once Warden has latched onto the “suspect,” it’s a tug of war that the dog is deter mined to win, Jefferson said. “All training to the dog has to be fun,” Carlyle said. “The dog always wins in training, so we make it fun for the dog so the dog wants to go forth and do this type of training.” RICO ■ Continued from 1B about the case. No attorney informa tion was available for Jan Lopez or Juan Carrillo- Lopez from Magistrate Court officials, Friday, Oct. 2. Attempts to reach Carlos Lopez’s attor ney, Leslie Aiken, were unsuccessful. Attorney David Hoffer said he had just received Michael Lopez’s case from another attorney and declined comment. Williams aims to glide by Stanton-King in District 5 BY JEFF AMY Associated Press Associated Press In this image from video, Georgia State Sen. Nikema Williams speaks during the state roll call vote on second night of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, Aug. 18. ATLANTA — Republican Angela Stanton-King knows her outspoken support for Donald Trump is dragging down her longshot candi dacy in the South’s most Democratic congressional district, but she’s not walk ing away from the president. For her part, Democrat Nikema Williams aims to let Stanton-King sink on her own, saying she’s seeking to drive up turnout to defeat Trump in Georgia and nationwide. Williams, a state sena tor and chair of the Geor gia Democratic Party, was tapped to succeed civil rights immortal John Lewis as the party’s nominee in the 5th District, which includes much of the city of Atlanta as well as parts of neigh boring DeKalb and Clayton counties. Lewis died from pancre atic cancer in July after win ning a primary for an 18th term, meaning it was too late under state law for an election to determine who Democrats would nominate. The 42-year-old Williams said she wants to go to Con gress to use federal power to make changes in Georgia and the South, providing more subsidized health care and doing more to guarantee voting rights. “I thought long and hard about the impact I’m able to have in the state and the laws that I want to look at that affect people’s ability to thrive in the state,” Williams said. “COVID has really shined a spotlight on the dis parities in this country.” The nomination contin ues a climb through Demo cratic ranks for Williams. She won a special election to state Senate in 2017, and became party chair in 2019. Williams is an ally of 2018 gubernatorial candidate Sta cey Abrams. Williams is taking an above-the-fray approach in her campaign, declining to run in a special election that will fill out the remainder of Lewis’ term, as did Stan ton-King. Both women are African American. Williams is also declining to debate Stanton-King, saying she refuses to face the Repub lican because Stanton-King spreads falsehoods on social media and because she fears Stanton-King would be just as disruptive as Trump was in his first debate against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. “I’m not going to give her a platform,” Williams said. “I’m not going to legitimize her candidacy.” The 43-year-old Stanton- King accuses Williams of being “afraid to face me.” She argues voters should give her candidacy a look, pushing a message that Trump is delivering eco nomically for African Amer icans and that Democrats have empty promises. “ ”If people would just look at me as Angela Stanton- King, the candidate, some one who is from Atlanta, someone who is going to use their own personal experi ence to make things better for this district,” she said. Williams has organized a campaign committee but hasn’t filed any reports yet. Through June 30, Stanton- King had raised $70,000. Stanton-King has a com bative online presence that prominently features her support for Trump. She’s tweeted multiple times in recent days defenses of Trump’s refusal in the first presidential debate to con demn the Proud Boys, a far-right group, in another example of Trump’s refusal to denounce white supremacists. An author and real ity television personality Stanton-King has a personal connection to Trump. The president pardoned Stanton- King in February for her role in a car theft ring that led to a 2004 conviction on federal conspiracy charges and two years in prison. 2020 VIRTUAL NORTH GEORGIA OCTOBER 6,13,20,27 TUESDAYS 9A-10A ■ % jfl I f ^ mr n. 11* ~—i This year’s North Georgia’s Home Show is going virtual! Join us every Tuesday in October from 9 am to 10 am for speakers, demonstrations and prizes. We look forward to “seeing” everyone! 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