Past a certain point, incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. People who are so extraordinarily terrible at their jobs to the degree that they cause serious harm to others should be treated just as harshly — if not more harshly — than bad actors who intend to cause damage in the first place. If you take a shower one day and end up getting electrocuted, then it doesn’t really matter, from a practical perspective, whether your electrician meant to kill you or not when he hooked up your wiring in the bathroom. The fact is, you’re dead. The electrician is to blame. And he should pay the highest price for that.
Brown University, the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, has now crossed the threshold into extreme incompetence that’s indistinguishable from malice. So have local authorities in Providence, as well as any federal authorities who are working on the case. On Saturday at 4:00 PM, nearly five days ago, a gunman shot 11 people on the campus of Brown University. One of the two victims who died was the vice president of the university’s chapter of the College Republicans. There are reports that she may have been targeted, and that she was shot multiple times at close range. And in the aftermath of this mass shooting and possible political assassination, the university and the authorities have bungled the case so flagrantly, so many times, that they may as well be working with the shooter.
We truly have never seen a high-profile murder investigation that’s been botched as extensively as this one, at least not in memory. Whether it’s being botched deliberately or not, it doesn’t matter. And therefore if you’re a conservative — particularly if you’re an outspoken conservative on campus, or at work — that means you need to start taking steps to ensure your own safety. Assume absolutely nothing about the level of concern that your administrators or superiors may have for your well-being, because the odds are, they don’t have any concern whatsoever. They’ll celebrate your death and let your killer escape.
Let’s start with this hypothetical. Let’s say you run the Brown University Department of Public Safety, or the Providence Police Department, or the FBI’s local field office in Rhode Island. And then let’s say that, during a study session in a lecture hall at the local university, which was attended by many students, there’s a mass shooting. And then the shooter runs away. What’s the first thing that you’re going to do, in order to identify the shooter?
Odds are, you’re going to do two things. You’re going to check one of the 1,200 surveillance cameras that Brown has admitted are installed on campus, to see if they picked anything up. And then, while those cameras are being reviewed 24/7, you’re going to interview every witness — particularly the students who were attending the study session. You’re going to take statements from those students about what the shooter looked like, what he may have said, where he may have gone, and so on. And if you don’t know the names of the students who were taking the class or who was in the building, you get it from the school. You see who swiped into the building. You check the class roster. It should take ten seconds.
This is all common sense. It almost feels absurd to say any of this out loud, because your average third-grader would understand all of it. And yet, on Wednesday, we learned that the authorities still haven’t spoken to all of the witnesses in the room where the shooting occurred.
This is footage of the Providence Police Chief, Oscar Perez.
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🚨BREAKING: DEI Providence Police Chief reveals that 5-days after the Brown University mass shooting with a killer on the loose and they have not interviewed the student eye-witnesses for a description of the shooter.
Just a spectacular display of incompetence. pic.twitter.com/CTRuuA5jL4
— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) December 17, 2025
Credit: @Dapper_Det/X.com
He can barely speak English, but it’s okay, because the Providence city council made racial equity a top priority after George Floyd’s overdose. So don’t worry about it.
While we’re at it, here’s an image of the head of Brown’s police department, a guy named Rodney Chapman.
Credit: Brown University Public Safety and Emergency Management
He’s been the subject of multiple no-confidence votes by multiple police unions in the past year. But don’t worry — like the female president of Brown, and the Spanish-speaking chief of police in Providence, Rodney Chapman is “diverse,” so it’s all okay. Yes, everyone involved in this debacle, at every level, is “diverse” — imagine that.
In any event, the upshot from the police chief’s comments, as best I can decipher, is that the Providence Police Department is still trying to figure out “who was there” in the room when the shooting happened. It’s an extraordinary admission. This is the lowest caliber of police work imaginable, under the circumstances.
And then he made a reference to this statement from Brown University, which was sent out on Monday evening — two full days after the shooting.
Credit: @BrownUniversity/X.com
It reads: “The Providence Police Department has asked that anyone who was in Barus and Holley [the building where the shooting occurred] on Friday or Saturday, Dec. 12-13, arrange for an interview.”
And then they provide an email address to contact.
That’s a request that should have gone out immediately on Saturday night. And they really shouldn’t have needed to make the request, because again, the building should’ve been locked down immediately, and everyone should have been identified on the spot (with a class roster, or with the access-card readers, or with cameras). But if that’s not possible for some reason, then you still need to conduct the witness interviews immediately, one way or another. Instead, the police and the university waited 48 hours to reach out to potential witnesses. And 100 hours after-the-fact, they still haven’t conducted them.
There are only two possibilities to explain this delay. Either the police and the school want to assist the shooter in making his escape, or everyone involved is criminally incompetent and needs to be fired and treated as if they were accomplices after-the-fact. When you zoom out and consider the timeline of this debacle, you really can’t come to any other conclusion.
First of all, just hours after the shooting, the authorities announced that they had identified a person of interest in the shooting. His name and photograph were plastered everywhere. It was a white guy who had some military experience. Then, within 24 hours, they released him, saying they didn’t have enough reason to hold him.
And after that, the first surveillance images of another potential suspect surfaced, from Ring cameras in the neighborhood.
Credit: Brown University Public Safety and Emergency Management
And this new suspect looked absolutely nothing like their first “person of interest.” The new suspect was much, much larger and less physically fit. So right away, that raised the question of why they suspected the white guy in the first place.
Then, on Monday, the authorities conceded that the shooter had shouted something. But they refused to say more. They also didn’t address speculation that the shooter may have shouted “Allahu Akbar,” as some outlets had reported. Instead, they gave a vague and equivocal response.
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Wait for it…
When they catch the Brown University shooter this video will be part of their undoing.
The Police Department and Brown did not let people know what was shouted before the shooting.
They protected the shooter in the name of WOKE.
Soon.pic.twitter.com/YV5ojJXZfL
— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 16, 2025
Credit: @C_3C_3/X.com
Imagine if the shooter had yelled — or even been rumored to have yelled — something like, “This is MAGA country.” Is there any doubt they’d tell us that, within five seconds of the shooting? All of their hesitation and doublespeak — it’s all so obviously fake and performative at this point.
And of course, when you get double-speak and nonsense, you get an information void. And when there’s an information void, in every single case, it gets filled with speculation, for better or worse. So as it became clear that authorities weren’t going to share any meaningful information, Internet sleuths got to work. And they identified, as a potential person of interest, a Brown student and self-described “Palestinian refugee” with a very public profile, whose body type was a rough match with the surveillance images.
This new individual is clearly a radical Leftist. He had social media accounts with exotic personal pronouns, sympathized with Hamas, and boasted about his extensive work at “the intersection of queer studies and Palestine studies” — which seems like it has to be some kind of parody, but it’s real. The “intersection of queer studies and Palestine studies” is a bit like the intersection of transgenderism and the Taliban. The only relevant “intersection” in “Palestine,” as it relates to homosexuals, is the intersection where the gays land when they get thrown off the roofs. Nevertheless, Brown University’s PR department had aggressively promoted this guy as a migrant success story who was bravely showing the white man who’s boss.
Is this “Palestinian refugee” studying the intersection of queer studies and Palestine studies, also the shooter? I have no idea. No one does. It’s all wild speculation from random people on the Internet. That’s why I’m not naming him. But then something strange happened. This guy’s social media profiles began disappearing. So did the glowing articles that Brown had posted on their website about him.
And then Brown posted this statement online:
Credit: Brown University
“We’ve seen harmful doxxing activity directed toward at least one member of the Brown University Community. It’s important to make clear that targeting individuals could do irrevocable harm. Accusations, speculation and conspiracies we’re seeing on social media and in some news reports are irresponsible, harmful, and in some cases dangerous for the safety of individuals in our community. It is not unusual as a safety measure to take steps to protect an individual’s safety when this kind of activity happens, including in regard to their online presence. As law enforcement officials stated, if this individual’s name had any relevance to the current investigation, they would be actively looking for this individual and providing information publicly.”
Superficially, in general, it’s a reasonable response. It would obviously be horrible to publicly smear an innocent man as a potential suspect in a mass shooting — which is why it was horrible that, just a few days ago, the authorities did exactly that by naming an innocent white guy as their suspect.
But there are two strange aspects of this statement from Brown. First, it’s not an explicit denial. They don’t clearly and unambiguously deny that this “Palestinian refugee” is a suspect, or that he’s being investigated. Instead, they imply that his “name” doesn’t have “relevance” to the current investigation, which is a weird way of saying that he’s not a suspect. Note the weird phrasing in that message — where they say, “if this name had any relevance to the investigation.” We’ll come back to that in a second.
Secondly, there’s reason to doubt that the department would, in fact, inform the public if this individual became a suspect. A Providence police major in charge of the investigation admitted to reporters that, in fact, there are some facts they’re hiding from “public view.”
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🚨This nervous, cotton mouth, out of breath man is Providence Police Major David Lapatin, the Commanding Officer of detectives investigating the mass shooting at Brown University. I’ve now seen and heard enough to stake my reputation on it — There’s a cover up. pic.twitter.com/NunNtBMHY4
— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) December 18, 2025
Credit: @Dapper_Det/X.com
That’s not exactly a rousing promise of transparency. And it gets worse when you listen to what the president of Brown had to say.
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Brown University President says she knows nothing about university web pages being taken down. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/dvEgF6NEnE
— Spitfire (@RealSpitfire) December 16, 2025
Credit: @RealSpitfire/X.com
Things became even more pronounced yesterday, when the following image was released of a separate “person of interest” in the case.
Credit: Providence, Rhode Island Police Department
This surveillance image appears to show a woman wearing a black hijab, walking near the crime scene and the original “person of interest” in the case. Obviously, this image raises the specter, once again, of Islamist terrorism. It raises the question of whether foreigners and Leftists have once again murdered Westerners as part of their global jihad — or their “intifada,” as the mayor of New York calls it.
And if that’s indeed what happened here — and again, we have no idea at this point — then it becomes very important to revisit Brown’s claims about the cameras on their campus. I came across this article from Brown’s student newspaper, which was published back in March.
It’s about how the students at Brown were upset at the situation at Columbia, another Ivy League School where Leftist criminals are rampant.
On Thursday afternoon, approximately 200 students gathered on the Main Green [at Brown] to protest the arrest and detainment of Columbia alum and activist Mahmoud Khalil by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at Columbia on Saturday. … The protestors also requested the University destroy footage of past and future political speech on campus, including security camera footage.
So the Left-wing pro-Palestine activists are demanding that Brown erase security camera footage, supposedly so that ICE and the Trump administration can’t deport them when they commit crimes. Did Brown comply, in any way, with that demand? There were many more demands like it, all year long. And that’s not surprising. Leftists despise surveillance cameras — particularly Ring cameras — because they tend to catch Democrat voters committing crimes.
Yesterday, a reporter asked this specific question at one of these press conferences. And once again, the authorities didn’t answer.
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🚨 The Providence police press conference ended with a latino Rhode Island radio host accusing them of deliberately removing security cameras at Brown because of their sanctuary city law so that it wouldn’t record illegal aliens. pic.twitter.com/wgHlBaFMKZ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 17, 2025
Credit: @greg_price11/X.com
That wasn’t the only moment the authorities gave an unsatisfactory answer on this point. Two days ago, the attorney general stated that some buildings on campus are “old,” and therefore it’s simply unrealistic to expect a multi-billion-dollar university to put cameras on those buildings. This is reminiscent of the Secret Service’s excuse about sloped rooftops.
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Providence officials are now saying that the attack happened in an old part of Brown’s building, so no cameras…
A reporter calls BS: pic.twitter.com/i5GmTRh5ws
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 16, 2025
Credit: @EndWokeness/X.com
The answer never made any sense. For one thing, as Fox reported, there are older buildings on the campus — including the president’s residence — that have cameras. Secondly, it’s not hard to install a camera on a building of any age. You can install a camera on a tree trunk if you want to. You just need a drill. It’s like claiming that you can’t wear brand new shoes and walk on a really old floor. It makes no sense.
But there’s no need to overthink it, because within 24 hours, this answer completely changed once again. Suddenly, according to Brown’s Provost, there were cameras in the building. And as a reporter pointed out (before he was cut off), the Provost’s answer was nonsensical.
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Brown University Provost Prof. Frank J. Doyle: “We have 1,200 cameras located throughout the campus… There are cameras in this building.”
Reporter: “You’re saying there were cameras in the building? I was told yesterday there weren’t cameras in the building. The [Rhode Island]… pic.twitter.com/bYLkHR9oY7
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) December 17, 2025
Credit: @RedWave_Press/X.com
That about sums it up. Nothing about this investigation makes sense, which means that, in a roundabout way, it makes perfect sense. This is what you get when you hire university presidents and police chiefs based on their gender and ethnicity. It’s what you get when you tolerate riots and terrorism on college campuses all over the country, in the name of a global jihad. And most of all, it’s what you get when Leftists — from students to school administrators to public officials — feel like their ideology is losing, at a national level. You get dead conservatives. And then you get gloating.
Sources have reported that, in the aftermath of Saturday’s attack, a Brown University subreddit was shut down because far-left pro-Palestine redditors were celebrating the murder of Ella Cook.
It’s the same gloating we saw from the Left after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the murder of the United Healthcare CEO, and the murder of Charlie Kirk. And now we’re seeing the same gloating after the murder of a conservative student on a college campus. That’s what happens when our leaders are more concerned about Venezuela than protecting conservatives and dismantling Left-wing terror cells. Leftists gloat openly about butchering their political opponents, and they don’t even try to hide it. And based on how the very “diverse” leaders of Brown University (and the local police department) have handled this so-called investigation, it’s not exactly a stretch to conclude that, when the cameras are turned off after these ridiculous press conferences, they’re gloating too.
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This article has been edited in light of recent news reports that the shooter has been found.
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