The San Antonio Police Department over the weekend released video of an officer-involved shooting that occurred last month.

Police said just after 5 p.m. June 16, four SWAT officers responded to execute an arrest warrant.

‘Strong work; I pray for a speedy recovery of the officer and a speedy trial and conviction of the perp.’

Officers arrived in an unmarked vehicle and located the suspect inside his parked vehicle, police said, adding that officers pulled up in front of the suspect’s vehicle and saw he was holding a gun.

Police said the suspect then began shooting at the officers.

With that, all four officers discharged their firearms numerous times, police said.

The police video of the shootout is below:

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During the shootout, the suspect as well as one officer were struck by gunfire, police said, adding that both the officer and the suspect were taken to a hospital for treatment.

No bystanders were injured, police said.

The 35-year-old suspect — Roman Pena — was charged with four counts of aggravated assault against a peace officer, police said.

The officers involved have eight to nine years of service with the San Antonio Police Department, officials said, adding that the department’s Shooting Team and Internal Affairs Unit are conducting separate, concurrent inquiries.

In addition, police said that as with all officer-involved shootings, the District Attorney’s Office is reviewing this incident.

As you might imagine, a number of observers who viewed the police video had things to say about what went down. The following are a few highlights:

“Strong work; I pray for a speedy recovery of the officer and a speedy trial and conviction of the perp,” one commenter wrote.”Agg[ravated] assault?” another commenter asked. “How about attempted murder. Ridiculous.””We have THE best SWAT team,” another commenter declared. “Great job, men.””GOT ‘EM!!!!” another commenter exclaimed. “F**K HOMICIDAL CRIMINALS!!!”

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Two of the internet’s most notorious manosphere influencers got arrested again this weekend.

On Saturday, U.S. Marshals cuffed Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami, reportedly en route to a bare-knuckle boxing event. Footage of the handcuffing went viral almost instantly, with the internet immediately fixating on the brothers’ rumpled outfits — particularly Andrew’s choice of a tight and revealing purple blouse.

Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a ‘political kidnapping.’

By Monday, the fashion critique gave way to a Miami courtroom, tan jail uniforms, and total silence while their lawyer vowed to fight the latest extradition attempt to the United Kingdom.

Between the two brothers, this round alone adds up to 38 new charges — rape, sexual assault, trafficking for sexual exploitation, and, for Andrew, 19 counts tied to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography, plus an alleged pattern of choking victims, sometimes to unconsciousness, before assaulting them.

These charges add to the 21 original charges by the Crown Prosecution Service from May 2025 — bringing the total to 59 charges, all of a similar nature.

A separate, ongoing Romanian case accuses them of running a coercion scheme — faking relationships with women to trap them into producing pornography that authorities say generated over $2.8 million and nearly $1 million in crypto tokens.

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Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a “political kidnapping.” He’s dangled the idea that Trump might personally intervene to block it — McBride has said the president hates “political persecution and communism,” referring to actions by the U.K. government.

The Justice Department has pushed back on the political persecution framing, directly confirming to the Associated Press that leadership of its Criminal Division approved the arrests — contradicting McBride’s earlier claim that it was greenlit by a “low-level functionary” without leadership’s knowledge.

Because the Tate brothers are dual United States-British citizens, the final call on whether they get shipped overseas ultimately falls to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has the discretion to approve, block, or sit on the extradition order regardless of what the court decides.

McBride’s case that the arrests are a political witch hunt leans hard on the brothers’ Capitol Hill victory lap the week before the arrest. A photo circulated online appeared to show Andrew and Tristan posing with a member of Congress, part of a swing through D.C. that also included a stop at the Ned, an exclusive private club near the White House.

Three days after that trip, they were in handcuffs — a coincidence McBride has seemingly leveraged to argue that the case is politically motivated. He has maintained that the brothers are innocent.

A Miami judge ordered both brothers to be held in federal custody until the next hearing on Monday, and McBride estimates a final decision is around 60 days out.

Blaze News reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that concerns over fraud schemes have led him to shut off $1 billion of federal Medicaid spending for California and Minnesota.

Kennedy made the announcement Tuesday after noting the many schemes that had been identified and prosecuted in the two states, both run by Democrats.

‘States that receive federal Medicaid funding must demonstrate that every dollar meets federal requirements.’

“Medicaid exists to serve vulnerable Americans — not to bankroll unsupported claims,” Kennedy said in a press release. “Under President Trump’s leadership, we are restoring accountability across our public programs and protecting taxpayer dollars.”

Kennedy appeared at a media briefing alongside Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz to explain why they halted $867.5 million in spending for California and another $199 million for Minnesota.

“States that receive federal Medicaid funding must demonstrate that every dollar meets federal requirements. When they cannot, we will not release federal funds until they do,” Kennedy added.

HHS is awaiting documentation from both states to justify high-risk Medicaid claims. An analysis from CBS News found that 700 of the approximately 1,800 hospices in Los Angeles County triggered red flags for fraud, using California’s definitions.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a defiant statement about the decision.

“Today’s announcement from Dr. Oz is the same recycled political stunt we’ve seen before. California isn’t being targeted because Trump has evidence of fraud,” he wrote on social media.

‘We are being targeted for political reasons — and because Dr. Oz doesn’t understand that we are *SAVING* taxpayers money by keeping seniors and people with disabilities out of far more expensive nursing homes! We hate fraud. That’s not what this is. And we stand ready to collaborate with CMS in good faith efforts to combat fraud.”

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) also responded in a brief statement to the New York Post accusing the administration of “cutting more money in health care than they’ve prosecuted for fraud.”

HHS said the rate of growth in claims from California’s in-home care programs far outgrew the national average, suggesting some fraud was involved.

The funding paused in Minnesota involved Medicaid claims from “14 high-risk service areas.”

“The Trump administration is committed to rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse across the federal government,” HHS said in its statement. “HHS will continue to aggressively protect taxpayer dollars and hold states accountable for every federal Medicaid dollar they spend.”

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Billionaire Elon Musk may have gotten a death threat from a transgender-identifying liberal after the tech billionaire commented about transgender homicide rates.

Musk was responding to a post about the Zizian transgender cult investigated by independent journalist Andy Ngo. Members of the group are suspected of being involved in numerous slayings, and their alleged leader was arrested in Feb. 2025 in Maryland.

‘He’s putting up Hitler numbers. So maybe he should shut up before spouting lies like this.’

“The obvious reality is that giving rage-inducing hormones to mentally unstable people will cause a major increase in murder,” Musk wrote Sunday on the X social media platform, which he owns. “Statistically, trans and trans-driven (eg Charlie Kirk’s killer) homicide rates are more than triple that of the general population.”

His post grabbed a lot of attention from transgender activists, including trans-identifying activist Alejandra Caraballo.

“This MF is responsible for more deaths than there are trans people in the United States. He’s putting up Hitler numbers. So maybe he should shut up before spouting lies like this,” wrote Caraballo on the BlueSky social media app.

Caraballo’s post was reposted by Aubrey — a user who identifies as a “reclusive trans woman,” according to the bio — along with the suggestion that Musk should be “culled,” a word that can refer to euthanizing.

“Elon Musk should be culled from the human race. If humanity wants to preserve the light of consciousness and such,” read Aubrey’s post.

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Musk’s claim about transgender homicide rates was contradicted by Grok, the artificial intelligence service for Musk’s X platform.

“Mass shooting databases (e.g. Gun Violence Archive) show trans-identified perpetrators as a tiny share overall, though some narrower analyses of public/ideological shootings note higher recent visibility,” the service responded to a user about the claim.

Ngo was publicizing his book “The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.”

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Patrick Preacher is the “pastor for queer ministry” at Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA) — and what he preaches is as bad as his title sounds.

“This particular pastor says that hell doesn’t really exist as a physical place except for the manifestation of anti-LGBTQ discrimination here in America. That that is actually what makes hell,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says, before playing a clip of the pastor.

“Who had the nerve to tell you, or any of us, or this world for that matter, that being queer makes for an awful person?” Preacher asked during a sermon.

“[What] was he thinking when he told you this?” he asked again. “And I assume that it was a man because in most cases it always is. Why has Christianity — the religion of a humble, brown-skinned immigrant from Nazareth — become the religion of bigotry? Who had the nerve to tell any of us that we would be going to hell for the way God created us to be?”

“Here’s the answer,” Stuckey comments.

“Jesus did.”

“And it’s not just people who are gay. As Romans 3:23 tells us, ‘All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,’” she says, before honing in on his claim that Christianity is “the religion of bigotry.”

“He says, ‘Why has Christianity — the religion of a humble, brown-skinned immigrant from Nazareth — become the religion of bigotry?’ So here we see the intersectionality. If someone is brown-skinned, if someone is an immigrant, that they must also be accepting of homosexuality and transgenderism and all of these things,” Stuckey says.

“This is critical theory, queer theory being projected onto the Bible. This is not Christianity. This is not someone who loves God and His authority and wants to read the Bible asking, ‘How can I glorify God?’ This is someone who wants to use a religious text to justify sin, to justify and to downplay what God calls an abomination,” she continues, adding, “That is blasphemy.”

The pastor also claimed that “queer is God’s design.”

He said, “Who had the nerve to tell any of you that you’re too queer, that you’re too masculine, too gay, too feminine, or simply too much? Don’t they know? Look at your bulletin cover. Queer is God’s design.”

“God’s design from the beginning was marriage as a union between a man and a woman,” Stuckey comments.

“Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh,’” she reads from Matthew 19:4-6.

Stuckey explains that like this preacher, “Satan tries to twist God’s word the way that this pastor does.”

But that doesn’t change the true word of God.

“Homosexuality is by definition against God’s design. Scripture describes it as an abomination, unnatural, explains the penalty for persisting in this sin just as persisting in other sins in rebellion to God is hell,” she says, adding, “That is the result.”

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A Democratic congresswoman turned to soccer on Tuesday to support her claim that white supremacy is alive and well in modern culture.

Toward the end of a congressional hearing on the Smithsonian exhibit, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) was in full defense of changes that have been made at the historic museum.

‘Welcome to the Republicans’ white-pride rally.’

The hearing, titled Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past, was a back-and-forth between Republicans and Democrats about whether the museum has become woke and even anti-white.

When it was her turn, Crockett used her limited time to ask David Blight, a history professor from Yale University, a bizarre question about the recent World Cup.

“The World Cup that captured the imaginations of the entire world when they saw all of these people of color that was [sic] playing for all these teams, and ultimately, if you recall, the last two teams, it was Argentina and Spain,” Crockett began.

The congresswoman then asked the professor, “It seemed like the vast majority of the world was rooting … against Argentina, right? And why was that? Just give me an explanation. If you could guess.”

The professor was not in the same mindset as Crockett with his response, though, saying, “Spain had the best team. Maybe that’s why they were rooting for them?”

Crockett took a moment for a hard chuckle before suggesting what the real reason might be.

“There’s also a racist history that exists as it relates to Argentina,” she said.

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Crockett first introduced herself in the hearing by announcing, “Welcome to the Republicans’ white-pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing.”

This was followed by a series of rhetorical questions and comments surrounding the alleged threat of white supremacy in the United States. Crockett claimed that it must be hard for Republicans at the hearing to listen to the true history of America, while making other claims like black people are currently being denied their right to vote.

Republicans are trying to “ban books” and “attack museums,” Crockett went on, before citing the Biden administration’s 2021 claim that the biggest domestic threat to the United States is violent white supremacists.

Crockett also alleged that there were a lot of “white guys” with a “fetish” and “fragile egos” who are trying to feel “oppressed” over the alleged inner workings at the Smithsonian.

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In another viral clip, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) questioned museum officials about training materials and tool kits that listed certain traits as products of white supremacy.

A White House document on the issue said that the National Museum of American History was using a framework that “explicitly treats museums as engines for anti-oppression activism.”

For example, the document said the museum frames ideas like “objectivity, individualism, [and] a sense of urgency” as oppressive character traits of “whiteness” and “white supremacy culture.”

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Joe Biden’s presidency began and ended with the shielding of individuals linked to decades’ worth of dangerous gain-of-function experiments.

Biden concluded his presidency by issuing former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci a blanket pardon, going back all the way to Jan. 1, 2014 — around the time the Obama administration supposedly halted funding for gain-of-function research that makes pathogens more deadly and/or more transmissible.

‘It is hard to say if Daszak will be forthcoming with information.’

Years earlier — days after the geriatric Democrat was sworn in as president and at the height of the COVID pandemic — the Biden FBI requested special treatment for Peter Daszak, the disgraced British zoologist who funneled American funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

According to documents released on Monday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the National Targeting Center — a division of U.S. Customs and Border Protection responsible for catching travelers and detecting cargo that threaten American security — alerted other groups within the Department of Homeland Security to Daszak’s planned trip from Qatar to New York on Feb. 5, 2021.

The NTC was aware not only of the British native’s recent travels around China and his role on the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2 but his work with coronavirus researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology; his predominant use of American grant money for gain-of-function research, including research conducted by one of SARS-CoV-2’s likely patients zero; his contracts “with the DHS Chemical and Biological Threat Division”; his co-authorship of a 2013 study detailing the successful infection of human cells with a SARS-like coronavirus; and the National Institutes of Health’s request that he retrieve “the original type-specimen used by WIV for genetic analysis.”

The NTC recommended that Daszak undergo a Tactical Terrorism Response Team exam.

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In the NTC’s Feb. 2, 2021, email setting the stage for a thorough inspection and interview upon Daszak’s arrival was a list of questions the division evidently figured worth raising with the foreign zoologist, including:

Why was he chosen to be on the WHO investigative team?Where in China did he go?Where did he stay while in China?Did his WHO team visit the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and if so, what areas did the team inspect?Did the WHO team meet with any Chinese officials?Did Daszak collect, travel with, or mail any biological samples during the trip?

One of the documents published by Paul stated, “During the inspection, it is hard to say if Daszak will be forthcoming with information.”

Daszak — who was formally debarred along with his scandal-plagued and now-defunct organization, EcoHealth Alliance, last year by the Department of Health and Human Services — was apparently spared from having to undergo the exam and answer such questions in detail upon his arrival due to an intervention by the Biden FBI.

A senior CBP officer serving as the agency’s Joint Terrorism Task Force liaison wrote, “Please be advised FBI New York requested we do not stop the subject below.”

Customs and Border Protection played ball, sending out a message stating, “Please disregard request for inspection.”

Sen. Paul said that “the inspection never took place.”

Daszak and the FBI did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

When asked by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) during a 2024 congressional hearing whether he had a “standing relationship, either officially or unofficially, with any agency in the intelligence community,” Daszak answered no, then claimed he also wasn’t a witting informant for any U.S. intelligence agency.

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The Christian conservative keyboardist of the band Journey has lashed out at Bruce Springsteen for constantly using his platform to push his liberal politics.

Springsteen has been annoying his fans by criticizing President Donald Trump and his supporters during his concerts, and keyboardist Jonathan Cain says he’s fed up with it.

‘I mean, who cares, guys? Do your art. I try to keep politics out of my music.’

“I’m a diehard conservative. … And guys like Bruce Springsteen should shut up. You know, really, honestly, shut up, Bruce, you know?” said Cain in an interview on the “Complete Disaster Network” podcast from May that has gone viral on X this week, thanks to Variety.

He said he used to be a Democrat in his youth but has since turned to the right. He also tries to avoid injecting his politics into his music.

“Now, people say, ‘Well, you’re a Christian, and you’re conservative,’ and I’m like, ‘So what?’ I don’t preach it on stage. I don’t spend 10 minutes talking about it,” he continued.

“And Bruce, I mean, what the heck? I used to like him, and now he’s just annoying,” Cain said. “He’s an annoying, bitter old man. I mean, stop it. Really. You were born in the U.S.A., weren’t you, dude? So act like it. But even that song, if you look at the lyrics, I mean, it’s a kind of a diss to our country.”

He also turned his ire against a liberal actor known for criticizing Trump.

“Him and … who’s the other one? Robert De Niro,” Cain added. “I mean, who cares, guys? Do your art. I try to keep politics out of my music.”

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Cain is married to Paula White, the controversial prosperity gospel evangelist who was appointed by Trump to his White House Faith Office.

Cain went on to recount how Journey is ridiculed by many in the mainstream but remains a fan favorite. Cain also recounted how Journey was one of the first bands to start touring after the coronavirus pandemic.

“Everybody told us we were going to fail, and we were crazy — we’re all going to die, you know?” Cain recalled. “And we said, ‘Nonsense, it’s time to go back out and celebrate rock ‘n’ roll again,’ and we were right, and we filled every arena we played.”

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