We had a homicide and a mass shooting in Skid Row. We need the community’s assistance.

Senior Lead Officer Deon Joseph

What began as a federal immigration operation quickly led to confusion, exposing gaps in how agencies respond and coordinate.

Read the full story here: https://lawenforcementtoday.com/ice-operation-exposes-police-response-confusion-pittsburgh-policy-change

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NPA Podcast with Gregory K. Bovino, Commander-at-Large of the United States Border Patrol (Ret.) Pt. 1

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What began as a simple welfare check turned disturbing fast, with a locked bathroom revealing a scene that left investigators shaken.

Read the full story here: https://lawenforcementtoday.com/son-accused-flushing-remains-mother-murder-case-mississippi

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The Kentucky State Police is proud to support public safety efforts at the Kentucky Derby, one of the nation’s most iconic sporting events. 🐎
Our troopers are honored to work alongside local partners to help ensure a safe and successful event for all attendees.

KY State Police

JUST IN: GOLDEN TEMPO WINS THE 152ND ANNUAL KENTUCKY DERBY

CHERIE DEVAUX IS THE FIRST FEMALE TRAINER TO WIN IT!!!

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*NEWS INTERRUPTION*

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We would like to provide the following update:

Eric Fountain has been taken into custody. Thank you to our partners and the community for your assistance.

News Release: http://bit.ly/4npfddv
Press Conference: http://youtu.be/zWrMVaxV1NM

Monroe County Sheriff’s Office

Update:  Our Ottawa PD officer shot and injured last night was released from a KC area hospital and is home resting.  Thanks for the help escorting him home-Gardner PD, Wellsville PD, Osawatomie PD, Miami County SO, Franklin County SO, KHP, Ottawa FD, Fr. Co. EMS, FCECC.

Ottawa, Kansas PD

The Fresno Police Department is warning the public about a potential “takeover” event being promoted on social media that could target Fashion Fair Mall this weekend.

Read more: https://bit.ly/42Ie32U

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On Tuesday, April 28, at 4:18 PM, CSPD received a robbery call for service at Target, involving a person stealing items and threatening to use pepper spray and a firearm on an employee.

As patrol officers were responding, detectives in the RTCC launched a drone to monitor the situation.

At 4:25 PM, the drone operator radioed patrol officers that they had located a person matching the description and was able to monitor their location until officers arrived at 4:34 PM

Colorado Springs Police Department

After losing cats to coyotes in the past, a Pico Rivera family was stunned to see their 10-year-old cat, Mama, stand her ground in a dramatic daytime encounter caught on camera. 🐈😳

“I was in shock… it’s our cat,” the owner said.

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Florida: An off-duty deputy was injured overnight Saturday after a driver crashed into his personal motorcycle in northwest Miami-Dade.

The crash happened along Northwest 22nd Avenue and 58th Street, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities say the deputy was taken to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital and is in stable condition. Please join us in sending prayers and, or positive thoughts for his recovery🙏🏻

Investigators say the other driver involved stayed at the scene. No other details have been released.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2026/05/02/off-duty-deputy-injured-in-motorcycle-crash-in-northwest-miami-dade

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NEW: Oakland police said two people suspected of organizing sideshows were arrested Friday.

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As we just attended this year's NLEOHOF Gala, we've been reflecting on last year's winners as well!

Learn more about the nationalleohof below.  

https://www.nationalleohalloffame.com

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Video captures a hit-and-run as a driver leaves the scene but is later caught.

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Today, SAC Olson spoke at a press conference  alongside local partners to discuss our role in the ongoing investigation into a man who drove a vehicle packed with explosives into the Multnomah Athletic Club. FBI Portland assisted in the investigation and deployed Special Agent Bomb Technicians and our Evidence Response Team.

The PPB press release can be accessed here: https://www.portland.gov/police/news/2026/5/2/update-ppb-provides-additional-information-about-incident-goose-hollow

FBI Portland

WHO WAS THE MAC CLUB BOMBER

I can report the identity of the deceased driver: Bruce Valentine Whitman, a former MAC bartender and Portland resident. A source with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed his identity. PPB and the FBI have not yet established motive.

Portland had met Bruce Whitman once before. In 2015, he dyed his chickens pink with beet juice and Kool-Aid and released them on the city’s waterfront, telling reporters he wanted to make people smile.

In the early morning hours after a violent May Day, a car loaded with multiple improvised explosive devices crashed through the front doors of the Multnomah Athletic Club — the building where Whitman had worked as a bartender — and caught fire. The crash kill the driver and detonated some of the explosives inside the vehicle. PPB and ATF investigators are still on scene, with robots actively locating and handling additional devices found within the vehicle. The FBI is jointly investigating.

A source with direct knowledge of Whitman’s time at the MAC described him plainly: “The guy was a left-wing anti-capitalist antifa whack job.” The source confirmed he struggled with mental health issues and that Whitman harbored a specific, personal grudge against MAC management.

Whitman was involved in a unionization effort at the MAC. The drive failed, and sources suggest he harbored significant resentment over how management handled it. His departure from the club was not amicable. His political views appear consistent with that resentment — a Bernie Sanders supporter whose anti-capitalist worldview put him squarely in the ideological orbit Portland’s radical left has spent years cultivating.

THE CITY THAT BUILT THIS

Portland’s DSA-aligned city councilors didn’t hand Whitman the pipe bomb. But they — along with the broader organized radical left that holds real institutional power — built the cultural and political environment that produced him.

Councilor Angelita Morillo, a proud DSA member, has called for ICE to be dismantled “brick by brick” and described federal agents as a “modern-day gestapo”. Shortly before May Day, she posted a video addressing workers and activists. Her message: unionization and peaceful organizing were the nice way to fight. The hard way, she implied, remained an option.

That is the language of radicalization dressed in the vocabulary of governance. And it finds its audience.
Bruce Whitman was not a soldier in an organized movement. He was a disgruntled former employee with a grudge and a history of mental illness who built a bomb. But he was also a man shaped by a city whose elected leaders treat anti-capitalist fury as a legitimate governing philosophy — and whose rhetoric tells people like him, every single day, that the institutions arrayed against them deserve to be destroyed.

Portland’s radical left didn’t pull the trigger. But they spent years painting the target.

The investigation is ongoing. No motive has been officially established.

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