Honoring Our Fallen Heroes – July 25th, 2025

As we honor those we’ve lost; we must also hold close the families they leave behind. The average fallen officer is 41 years old, with 11 years of service. 29 widows and 78 children are grieving the loss of a parent. Their sacrifice is profound.        

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Securing America. The Trump administration awarding me one point twenty
six billion dollar contract to defense contract or Acquisition Logistics
to build a five thousand bed immigration detention facility at
Fort Bliss Army Base near al Paso, reflecting the Trump
administration zero tolerance policy on the illegal immigration, including its

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efforts to seal the US Mexican border. The new detention
facility expected to house single adult detainees and will be
managed by Immigration and Customs enforcement, with critics already questioning
what the conditions will be like at the facility that's
set to be completed in twenty twenty seven. We're also
told that US soldiers may serve as security as National

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guardsmen have at the immigration detainment camp dubbed Alligator Alcatraz
deep in the Florida Everglades. Additional military bases are also
set to host camps for immigrant prisoners, including Camp Atterbury
in Indiana and for Dix in New Jersey. Jeff Monosso Fox.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
News Facts, Integrity and Trust. This is the Brian mud
show to our Protecting the Palm Beach is a tribute
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is the weekly tribute dedicated to those who have literally

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laid down their lives in service to their communities, but
also for the rest of us to service a reminder
of what it is that you know. Our friends are
neighbor's risk. Every day they leave their families, put on
the badge, go to work, never knowing what the heck
might happen next. And we just had another harsh reminder
yesterday just west of Cleveland, the Lorraine.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Police Department revealing thirty five year old officer Philip Wagner
died surrounded my family at a hospital in Cleveland. Official
say twenty eight year old Michael Joseph Parker opened fire
on Wagner and his partner as they parked to eat
pizza in a remote area Wednesday. Wagner's partner any third
officer who responded to the scene were injured and take
it to the hospital. The shooter was killed after an

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exchange of gunfire. Police calling this an ambush attack, saying
Parker had multiple rifles, handguns, loaded magazines, and a significant
quantity of improvised explosive materials, not sharing details on a motive.
Officer Wagner, a Marine veteran, had been with the department
since twenty twenty two.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
You hear that, and Philip Officer Wagner. He was also
a Marine Corps veteran as you mentioned, but had a
wife and two children, you know, two young children at
that and it's all part of the story here. Last year,
three hundred and forty two law enforcement professionals were shot
in the line of duty. One hundred and sixty five died.

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We are pacing better this year, it's the good news.
Any too many LEDs. We have suffered forty seven law
enforcement LEDs this year, including two in Florida. Since the
previous update you heard about Philip. In California, you also
had docch and Joshua Bird murdered and the target shooting
by a parole who had just been released from prison

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a week and a half earlier. A Navy veteran josh
has survived by his wife and three children. And in California,
detectives Joshua, Kelly Ecklund, Victor Limus, and William Osborne. They
were killed during an explosion in a tactical training operation.
Joshua was survived by his wife and seven children. Victor
survives by his wife who also works in law enforcement,

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and three children. And William is survived by his wife
who's also in law enforcement excuse me, and six children.
So just the constant reminder. And on that note, in
addition to the ones, we've lost, twenty nine widows and
seventy eight children who've lost a parent so far this year.
So back the badge and spread the word. They need

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the support