Stolen Valor on Display as Providence Officials Take Bows
No suspect was stopped. No second victim was saved. No accountability has followed. But the mayor and police chief are still taking bows.
Providence city leaders are facing mounting backlash after Mayor Brett Smiley and Police Chief Oscar Perez were publicly celebrated for their response to the Brown University shooting, despite extensive reporting showing that the suspect escaped, killed again, and was never stopped by authorities.
The controversy ignited after Providence College honored the mayor and police chief during its “First Responders Night,” where both men received a standing ovation and posed for photographs, basking in praise for what critics say was a deeply flawed response.
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez are among the first responders being honored tonight. pic.twitter.com/t1Co5BQs2r
— FOX College Hoops (@CBBonFOX) December 19, 2025
According to the official timeline published by ABC News, the shooter was on and around Brown’s campus for hours, fled the scene undetected, and was not identified before committing a second murder days later.
“The last video in the FBI’s timeline shows the individual walking north on Hope Street at 4:07 p.m.”
That failure stands in stark contrast to the accolades now being handed out.
Legal Insurrection documented the inept response in noting that police initially detained and then released the wrong individual, while assuring the public that the investigation was progressing.
“Authorities released the person of interest after lab tests came back negative, even as the real shooter remained at large.”
As confusion mounted, officials went silent, a vacuum that Legal Insurrection warned would only make matters worse.
“The lack of information allows a lot of speculation to flourish,” as authorities refused to answer basic questions about the suspect, motive, or security failures.
Perhaps the most damning issue raised by Legal Insurrection was the absence of usable surveillance footage from the scene of the shooting.
“After five days, officials have no idea who the shooter is, where he is, or what he looks like,” despite hundreds of cameras across campus.
That reporting was compounded by revelations that long-standing security concerns had been ignored.
“Students, staff, and even security officers warned for years about lax access controls and missing safeguards — warnings that went unheeded.”
Only after the suspect was discovered dead in a New Hampshire storage unit, having already murdered an MIT professor, did authorities finally close the case.
“Officials confirmed the suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, ending the manhunt only after irreversible harm was done.”
Stolen Valor by Providence officials – it was a homeless guy living in a basement at Brown who posted the key tip on Reddit that gave the feds the lead they needed to track the perp to where he had already k*lled himself. https://t.co/cXnFMMae7H
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) December 20, 2025
These are the same clowns who led one of the most incompetent responses to a mass shooting that we’ve ever seen and lucked into the shooter killing himself 5 days later after likely having committed another murder?
They should have been booed out of the building. https://t.co/IMRbQK0x7z
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 20, 2025
I didn’t realize we needed to honor people that are incompetent at their job https://t.co/WS6aYbI9B7
— Paula Scanlan (@PaulaYScanlan) December 20, 2025
The anger online has been blunt: officials who failed to stop the killer, failed to inform the public, and failed to prevent a second murder are now being honored as if they had done the opposite.
No suspect was stopped.
No second victim was saved.
No accountability has followed.
But the mayor and police chief are still taking bows.
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Since when has a mayor ever been described as a “first responder?”. That honor is reserved for selfless heroes that are willing to jump into the ugly, get their hands dirty, and risk their health and safety at times.
This joke of a human has Tim Walz vibes.
DEI strikes again.
The ultimate participation trophy
Patting yourself on the back while forgetting the knife in your hand…the hallmark of the left.
First, basic geography — Brookline is a small (gentrified) town in Norfolk County, largely surrounded by Boston which is in Suffolk County — which is why Boston didn’t annex it as it did most of Suffolk County. Cambridge is across the Charles River (and in Middlesex County).
It was the Brookline & Boston Police who found the perp, who identified the fake Maine plate and who got the automated plate reader looking for it, which is how they traced him up I-93 to New Hampshire.
If he hadn’t shot the MIT professor (in Brookline), he probably would have gotten away with it.
And I still want to know who the second set of DNA came from…
FWIW, it was the homeless guy, John, who broke the case wide open, because he luckily confronted the killer beforehand. Which allowed them to ID the rental and killer. Without him they probably would not have linked the Portuguese MIT professor to Brown.
To the mayor, police chief, and ‘deer in the headlights governor, I say pffft.
I’d like to buy John a great big steak at one of Providences fine restaurants.
It was the homeless man that gave the first information
Make the homeless guy police chief of Providence. Hell make him mayor of Providence.
“I didn’t realize we needed to honor people that are incompetent at their job”
If you have a better idea as to how worthless Democrats are supposed to get their participation trophies, we’d all like to hear it.
“I didn’t realize we needed to honor people that are incompetent at their job https://t.co/WS6aYbI9B7”
This is not a first. Just a week or so ago, across the country, the LA Fire Department was awarded a “star” on the Hollywood walk of fame. Yes, the same FD that was helpless against a fire that burnt a good portion of the city, a fire that started days earlier that they failed to properly extinguish.
So, there is fame to be had in failure. This is the participation trophy mentality elevated to industrial levels.
https://sanfernandosun.com/2025/12/12/lafd-receives-award-of-excellence-star-in-hollywood/
It’s absurd that these morons are trying to spike the football on this. They failed at every conceivable level imaginable. They did nothing, had to beg the public for help finding the guy, accomplished nothing, then the FBI found him because a homeless guy happened to write down the license plate of the car.
Typical Dhimmi-crats — malignant and self-congratulatory narcissism, melded with appalling stupidity and professional incompetence.
Did Kamala fly in to help give them the clap?
Sounds like Boston after the marathon bombing.
But that was a different cause for cheerleading,
They were celebrating the destruction of the Fourth Amendment.
First Responders?
To see one, look at the 10-min clip from Bondi Beach. He and the couple who died trying to stop the other shooter were FIRST RESPONDERS.
Citizens *on the scene* are First Responders .. and must be prepared to fend for themselves.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-08-21-stop-campus-surveillance/?fbclid=IwY2xjawO2VEhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFVbUFPck52eEowMDNZd3Nhc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHi-6LZNaVHdFbGYxPONS6HN-Ee_fJVQHaJLshfz44-g39nd6-5Gip73DKhVi_aem_vAaAxdzSS6ga0Rnte9Yx0w
Interesting.
At some point, the adults need to take charge and tell the children NO!
yeah but they got up on stage and projected ( on the mayors part) female leadership a
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the pd spoke in spanish and w/o even trying to explain what was said to the lowly 3rd class grin gos
the left is pushing hard to make the “homeless” ( but still has ph access??) a hero
so the
Why was this guy allowed to live in the college basement??? intrusive questioning by some hick redneck maga thinker
He’s their House Elf.
Blame Harry Potter.
these cucks are lucky–dont know if the shooter ran out of ammo/lost his nerve/decided on his own to leave the scene but their incompetence and malfeasance gave the shooter ample time to take out a lot more people than he did–could have been many more casualties that day
condolences to the victims and their loved ones
Meanwhile we still don’t know why the perp killed people in two different places. The few “dots” we have seen (one victim and the perp might have gone to school together in Portugal about thirty years ago; the perp had attended Brown almost a quarter century ago) are so widely spaced that trying to connect them without more evidence seems ridiculous.
The stock argument that the perp was crazy and we will never know why does not hold up. Even crazy people operate according to SOME kind of reasoning or purpose. And this guy got a “diversity lottery green card” in 2017 which is almost 15 years after he left Brown (where he came on a student visa). Where was he and what was he doing all that time between visas?
They should deputize the homeless. After all, even with their world-class security, “John” was living in the classroom building where the first shooting took place. What could be more convenient and practical?
Anybody look into the charges that their camera system had been turned off or cut down due to complaints from “activists?
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