{"id":131552,"date":"2025-09-10T01:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131552\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:03:06","slug":"law-enforcement-honors-fallen-officers-with-portland-cycling-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131552\/","title":{"rendered":"Law enforcement honors fallen officers with Portland cycling event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Maine \u2014 Current and retired law enforcement officers gathered in Portland today to honor fallen officers. <\/p>\n<p>The event was hosted by Portland Police and the Honor Roll Association, a cycling group composed of current and former officers. <\/p>\n<p>The Honor Roll sponsors cycling events across the United States to pay tribute to officers who have died in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Pierson, Director of the Honor Roll, said, &#8220;Law enforcement is a strong brother and sisterhood&#8230;.we don&#8217;t want to forget those who succumbed to injuries and horrible events before us. We have several goals&#8230;one is to raise public awareness for our profession, and we also pay it forward by contributing to local law enforcement charities in the towns and cities we ride through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Funds raised at today&#8217;s event will benefit the &#8216;100 Club of Maine,&#8217; an organization that provides assistance to families of first responders who died in the line of duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Maine \u2014 Current and retired law enforcement officers gathered in Portland today to honor fallen officers. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[91196,64,63,784,3175,91193,80513,91194,28667,7640,91195,85],"class_list":["post-131552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-100-club-of-maine","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-cycling-event","tag-fallen-officers","tag-first-responders","tag-honor-roll-association","tag-law-enforcement","tag-portland","tag-public-awareness","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}