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"A spokesman for the Police Department said the former governor was not believed to have been targeted in the assault. Mr. Paterson is legally blind but there was no indication that the attackers were aware of this."

He was the first legally blind person to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state.

"Mr. Sliwa saw some of them going up the fire escape of a brick building on Second Avenue, Mr. Paterson said, and “yelled at them to come down or he was going to call the cops.”

“They came down and he got into it with one of them and that was kind of the end of it,” Mr. Paterson said.

Soon afterward, however, Mr. Sliwa brought the dog home and went back outside with Mr. Paterson, where they encountered the group again, the former governor said.

Mr. Paterson said two adults had joined the fray, and that they physically assaulted him and his stepson.

“It was a bigger argument that ensued but interestingly enough, two adults intervened and actually started the fight,” Mr. Paterson said. “The kids didn’t start the fight. They were arguing.”"

So seems these people know each other but not enough to know Peterson is blind. Weird.