Protecting The Palm Beaches – March 21st, 2025

Remember to back the badge and spread the word. They need us just as much as we need them.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
The news you need to start your day in the
bomb beaches at the Treasure Coast. This is the Brian
Mud Show. Yeah, protecting the Palm Beaches. The weekly feature
design to recognized those who paid the ultimate price in
service also service a reminder of what are police to
resk every day they go to work, they leave their families,
they put on the badge, never knowing what the heck

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might happen next. And unfortunately, after progress was made in
reducing the line of duty debts in twenty twenty three,
now we didn't sustain that progress. Last year. LEDs rose
by seventeen percent nationally in twenty twenty four, with five
additional lds Within the state of Florida. A total of
three hundred and forty two officers were also shot in

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the line of duty last year, resulting in fifty debts.
That was an eight percent increase over the prior year.
In total, we lost one hundred and forty four heroes
in the line of duty last year, eight in Florida.
We've now lost sixteen heroes in the line of duty
this year, including this hero. Since the previous update. In California,
Deputy Hector Kwavas Junior was killed in a crash while

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in pursuit of a suspect who'd stolen a vehicle. The
suspect was detained by responding officers shortly after the crash
and has been charged with manslaughter in duy. He survived
by a wife and two children. As we reflect on
those we've lost, please remember the families have our fallen
as well. The average age of the fallen forty, average

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tour of duty eleven years. In addition to losing sixteen
law enforcement professionals in the line of duty this year,
there are eight widows and nineteen children who've lost a parent.
You're weekly reminder to back the badge and spread the
word because Lord knows they need us just as much
as we need them.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Now, are you? Florida Headlines. Governor d Santa has held
an immigration roundtable with Borders are Tom Homan Sarasota yesterday
home and said in four months there's been a ninety
six percent drop in border crossings, that the Trump Administration's
not going to stop removing Venezuelan and trende Aragua gang
members despite what he calls interference from federal judges. De
Santa says everything President Trump is doing by executive order

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to fight illegal immigration needs to be codified by Congress.
A new parking garage would be built in Lakeworth Beach
and Downtown merchants can't wait City Commission approving a proposal
to build a garage along K Street and an estimated
eight and a half million dollars funded through a public
private partnership. Business owners hope it'll make things easier for
customers to get to their stores. A Southwest Airlines flight

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had to abort its takeoff from the Orlando Airport yesterday
and air traffic controller cancel the plane's takeoff clearance after
the pilot mistakenly began to depart on a taxiway rather
than a runway. A brush fire in Miami Dade County
proving hard to stop. Florida Forest Service says it was
burning over twenty five thousand acres and only thirty percent contained,
and FHP says the fire could last several more days.

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Those are your headlines right and