CAMDEN — At noon on June 29, a sultry, sweltering Sunday, Anita Acevedo sat weeping on a bench outside Cooper University Hospital, a plush toy gorilla in her lap.
Sixty hours earlier, first responders rushed her husband Tahj Bolden to Cooper with two gunshot wounds. She had been prohibited from seeing him and had been forced by Cooper security officers to leave the air-conditioned lobby and move to a nearby bench in the heat.
Three Camden County sheriff’s officers approached Acevedo. “They’re adamant,” one said of hospital security, “that they want me to tell you to leave!…I don’t think you should have to go anywhere, it’s ridiculous to me.”…