There is no denying that what happened at Brown University on December 13th was a tragedy. Two days later, the alleged shooter killed former classmate Nuno F.G. Loureiro, after which he went to a storage shed in Salem, New Hampshire, and committed suicide.
That’s the official story given to the press and the public, over which the Providence keystone cops and Brown’s president are taking victory laps. Two students are still dead, and many others are injured, and a confluence of progressive priorities and contradictions is to blame.
One report suggested that surveillance cameras were turned off to protect professors and students participating in pro-Palestine protests on campus. This makes sense, since faculty were warned that cameras were present and that they could be identified as participants.
Another report mentioned the possibility that Brown’s many “international” students might also be affected by the presence of video evidence. This we know to be true because the murderer, Claudio Neves Valente, was a past student and a Portuguese national who would have been “affected,” had the cameras been on or operational.
We have multiple points of failure.
Brown University has been brushing off security issues for years — ignoring warnings from students, staff and even police, The Post has learned. …
The engineering building where the shooting took place didn’t have a swipe-card mechanism and could be accessed by anyone through the public-facing coffee shop, students said. It didn’t have a security officer posted at the front either, like some other buildings do, school officials have said.
And while progressives and their DEI hire police chiefs love themselves some 1984 surveillance superstate, they aren’t for any public safety or public good. They are for the state and the state alone. If the presence of cameras runs contrary to their ideological commitments, then cameras stop working or are left unused to protect illegals, padding population numbers to rob Americans of congressional seats and electoral votes. [Related: Morning Update: Brown Note]
And those Left-Wing DEI police Chiefs are political hires, so the proglodytes can keep hating on the police or any law enforcement that enforces laws that contradict their political agenda. Besides, how could you show your face at a party if your peers knew your security might help the police or ICE in any way?
The problem is a lot of colleges, and Brown also, are under enormous pressure not to cooperate with police, not to have surveillance cameras, not to have mask bans and those things. We need to understand what happened here in order to understand what can be done to remedy the problem. We need to under understand what happened here.
And unfortunately, Brown University and even the Providence Police have not been very forthcoming as to the role of surveillance cameras, the role of Providence being a sanctuary city and Brown also, which does not cooperate with ICE. We need to understand what went wrong here.
All of which leads me to the point I made in Brown Note. You disarmed them all under the pretense that it was safer, that you cared, while knowing law enforcement has no obligation to protect anyone, anywhere, and now eight students are wounded and two are dead.
And it didn’t have to happen.
A Brown University custodian says he saw the alleged mass shooter, who opened fire in a classroom on Dec. 13, nearly a dozen times several weeks before the attack and shared suspicions about the man with an on-campus security guard.
Derek Lisi, who has worked at Brown for 15 years, said he had taken note of a man pacing the hallways, peering into classrooms, and ducking into a bathroom to avoid being seen.
He later recognized him in the photos shared by police of the man they say killed two people and injured nine others on Saturday, Dec. 13.
“He’d been casing that place for weeks,” Lisi said in an interview Sunday.
Lisis thought he might be on the prowl to steal property, not lives. Campus security could not be bothered. There were few, if any, cameras operating to protect anti-semitic protests and students who may have overstayed their visas. The building had no keycard entry or access security in place, and Brown University has retained outside counsel on the presumption that they are going to get sued.
I hope so, if for no other reason than we’ll get to explore the discovery for more evidence of partisan politics before student and public safety. Democrat empathy is a ruse, and you shouldn’t have to get shot or die to learn that.
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