Brown University Students and Staff Claim Security Worries Were Brushed Off for Years
“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.”
This is one of the reasons why it has been stunning to watch officials from the city, state, and school pat themselves on the back for the last few days.
The New York Post reports:
Brown University students, staff say security worries brushed off for years before massacre: ‘Gamble with our lives’
Brown University has been brushing off security issues for years — ignoring warnings from students, staff and even police, The Post has learned.
The revelation comes after two students were killed and nine others hurt in a mass shooting at the Ivy League school that has seen critics slam the institution for prioritizing image over safety.
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.
On the day of the shooting, there was a 17-minute gap between the 911 call and the university sending out its first alert to students, according to a timeline published in the student newspaper.
Even the Rhode Island school’s own security staff has complained about the lax attitude.
In 2023, a school administrator allegedly refused to cancel a planned children’s reading after a school safety officer warned there was a credible shooting threat, according to an expose in the student newspaper.
At the time, police in Bristol, Conn. warned the Providence, RI university that its ex-assistant football coach — Dennis “DJ” Hernandez, the older brother of infamous NFL player and killer Aaron Hernandez — was planning a mass shooting.
Hernandez was displaying “very erratic behavior,” and told someone close to him he had visited the university’s campus to map out his intended spree, according to Bristol Police’s arrest report.
“When I go, I’m taking down everything. And don’t give a f–k who gets caught in the crossfire. I’ve died for years now and now it’s other people’s turn,” Hernandez wrote on Facebook Messenger, according to a federal criminal complaint.
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“Brown University students … say security worries brushed off for years before massacre”
That’s just sore losership.
Other Brown students demanded defunding the police.
They won and you didn’t. Suck it up.
Brown’s a gun-free zone!
Isn’t that all they need?
Everyone knows bad guys with guns a) read the signs and b) obey them religiously.
Exactly. People who want to commit mass murder look at gun-free zones as attractive places where no one can shoot back. Any place that puts up a “gun-free zone” sign had better practice their active shooter drills.
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