Brown University Tag

Feds Open Investigation Into Brown Univ Over Security Failures, as Campus Police Chief Placed on Leave

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2025 30 Comments

As more facts come out, Brown's handling of campus security will look worse and worse, and should result in more firings and resignations....

Brown U. Custodian Claims He Warned Security Twice About Suspected Gunman

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 22, 2025 13 Comments

Who did he see? The alleged shooter Claudio Manuel Neves Valente....

RI Whistleblower Ramona Bessinger Barred from Serving on Public Health Board, Sues for Discrimination

Posted by Jane Coleman on December 22, 2025 21 Comments

First DEI drove her out of the classroom, then it drove her out of the doctors' office. Now Ramona Bessinger is suing officials at the RI Dept. of Health for rejecting her board membership based on race and sex....

Stolen Valor on Display as Providence Officials Take Bows

Posted by Ben Smith on December 21, 2025 25 Comments

No suspect was stopped. No second victim was saved. No accountability has followed. But the mayor and police chief are still taking bows....

Brown University Students and Staff Claim Security Worries Were Brushed Off for Years

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 21, 2025 3 Comments

"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."...

Did Hostility To Policing Contribute To Brown U. Failures?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2025 11 Comments

"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...

Trump Suspends Green Card Program That Allowed Brown U. Shooting Suspect Into U.S.

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 19, 2025 2 Comments

“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country”...

Details Emerge About Brown, MIT Shooting Suspect Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 19, 2025 45 Comments

The FBI believes Neves-Valente attended the same university in Portugal as MIT professor Nuno Loureiro....

Brown University and MIT Murder Suspect Found Dead

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2025 43 Comments

Identified as Claudio Manuel Nueves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national...

Report: Police ID Brown University Shooting Suspect

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 18, 2025 61 Comments

They have not released the name....

One Question Looms Large: Why Were There NO Cameras Where the Brown Shooting Occurred?

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on December 18, 2025 61 Comments

"Over the summer, radical human rights groups demanded Brown disable security cameras so Palestinian activists could raise hell under the radar. ...

Authorities Recovered Evidence, DNA at Brown Shooting Scene

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 18, 2025 30 Comments

Great. Now do something....

Brown Shooting: Police Looking for Man ‘in Proximity of Person of Interest’

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 17, 2025 21 Comments

We still have no video or photos from the school....

Police Release More Video of Suspected Shooter at Brown But None at the School

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 16, 2025 36 Comments

What the heck is going on...

Lack Of Information About Brown University Murders “Allows a Lot of Speculation to Flourish”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2025 16 Comments

"I think with the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a campus there's a question, no answers yet, but there's a question whether this was a targeted killing."...