YouBet said:

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How odd.

Reporter: Why didn't the siren emergency system go off?

Brown University President: "That's not a system we would ever use in the case of an active shooter."

Reporter: "It does say on the website...that it is for an active shooter."

Brown University President: "It depends on… pic.twitter.com/SgBHecIplP

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 16, 2025

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If it walks like a duck, shoots at Brown University’s most prominent conservative then all information about him is actively scrubbed from the Internet, who am I to say Mustapha Kharbouch isn’t the sh00ter?? 🤷🏻‍♂️

pic.twitter.com/IVQUKVG6Nd pic.twitter.com/dc0846aYZn

— Mr. Baker (@SeanAnon82) December 16, 2025

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2001049779808165892.html

Ellis Wyatt said:

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Y'all are assuming Brown doesn't condone the shooting. I don't assume that at all.

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I wouldn't guess that is the play.

Im wondering how much Brown could have known about the individual before he committed the crime. Did they get sent screenshot of threats he made against Christians/ conservatives? Was this individual and others protected from threatening speech by the school? Did the school properly support and defend the rights of Christians and conservatives?

Those are the $$$ questions that I think Brown is signaling they might be in a real bad spot on.

it's been a while since a mass shooter got away / escaped for 3 days (and counting)

Psycho Bunny said:

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YouBet said:

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How odd.

Reporter: Why didn't the siren emergency system go off?

Brown University President: "That's not a system we would ever use in the case of an active shooter."

Reporter: "It does say on the website...that it is for an active shooter."

Brown University President: "It depends on… pic.twitter.com/SgBHecIplP

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 16, 2025

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Given the timelines I've seen, the siren wouldn't have accomplished anything. First call to 911 was at 4:05, and at 4:06 the suspected shooter was a block away. He was probably already gone from the building by the time the phone rang at 911.

My guess is that he walked through the door at the back of the lecture hall, emptied a magazine into the room, and then left. Once he's clear of the classroom and the gun is hidden, he's just another dude wearing a mask (on a deep blue campus in a deep blue state, where masks are much more common than in Texas) and dressed for New England in December.

If he had wanted to shoot more people, he easily could have. So he's not your typical active shooter, looking to maximize body count.

But given that he was a block away only a minute after the first call to 911, the sirens wouldn't have done anything, and there's no way the police could have gotten there in time to stop him, unless they were right outside the classroom when he started shooting.

While everyone seems to be largely looking at the Republican club leader as being the target (possibly because she's a photogenic blonde girl), I believe the professor teaching the class for which the study session was being held is Jewish - her name is Rachel Miriam Friedberg, and she's part of the Judaic Studies program.

And the guy who's internet profile is being scrubbed is a "third generation Palestinian refugee." (I heartily invite they/him to go to Gaza, and see how high a building they throw it* off of.)

Speculation: if said "3rd gen refugee" was indeed the shooter, it goes to the room with the intent of shooting the Jewish prof. Except the prof isn't there, it's a TA leading the study session. Having gotten psyched up, and possibly already having the gun out, it proceeds to open fire anyway, then unasses the AO.

In this scenario, the shout might just as likely have been "Free Palestine" as "Aloha Snackbar."


*Note: if a person can't figure out their own gender, I feel myself under no obligation to guess. So, tag, you're It.

It now sounds like they know who they are looking for - they just don't know where it is.

fc2112 said:

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It now sounds like they know who they are looking for - they just don't know where it is.

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Where are you seeing that?

Ellis Wyatt said:

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If they're scrubbing info from their website, are they also deleting video? The ends justify the means, after all.

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Rhode Island, including Providence and Brown, is a cesspool of corruption exceptional even in the habitually corrupt Democrat Party orbit.

Nothing is beyond these goons, including using this time to cover up their connection to the killer rather than capturing the killer.

Seeing accusation that the ASL interpreter at the PC was a phony. It did seem off with the weird facial expressions she was making and she looks like she has no teeth or dentures in her mouth.

bonfarr said:

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fc2112 said:

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It now sounds like they know who they are looking for - they just don't know where it is.

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Where are you seeing that?

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Providence newspaper

https://www.providencejournal.com/live-story/news/crime/2025/12/17/brown-university-shooting-updates-shooter-victims/87799439007/

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"There's a lot of leads we have that identifies this person," he said. "We are very confident."

However, he said police do not know if the suspect is still in the area.

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This has really upset their lib utopia up there.

Another victory for DEI --

I would be suing this school's butt off.

• Rodney Chatman is indeed the Vice President for Campus Safety and Chief of Police at Brown University.
  
  
  He was hired in July 2021, with a stated focus on addressing bias in policing and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in law enforcement.
  
  
  While direct references to Black Lives Matter (BLM) support are less explicit in primary sources, his role emphasized building trust in communities and equity initiatives, which align with broader DEI and anti-bias efforts.
  
  
• Two police unions at Brown did issue unanimous no-confidence votes against Chatman (and Deputy Chief John Vinson) in 2025: The Brown University Police Sergeants Union voted in September, citing a toxic work environment, unlawful quotas, and leadership failures.
  
  
  The Brown University Security Patrolperson's Association followed with a second no-confidence vote in October, echoing concerns about campus safety shortcomings and workplace toxicity.
  

I would prefer Smeghead run this investigation than the Providence Police Department

Jim Carrey's character from "Me, Myself, and Irene", a motorcycle riding cop in the Rhode Island State Police, comes to mind.

From the pastor of the church I visited in Providence earlier this year.

nortex97 said:

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I can't imagine watching this and ever considering paying for an education at this clown show.

Nothing turns me into a conspiracy theorist faster than a government official chastising a reporter for asking a “really dangerous” question, which no one is willing to answer. https://t.co/AF6LdMScu9

— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) December 17, 2025

With all due apologies to any clowns upset by the comparison.

Where is Beshara Doumani (@bdoumani), the former President of Birzeit University in Palestine and the current Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies at Brown University (@BrownUniversity), today?

Where is his teaching assistant, Mustapha Kharbouch (@mustapha_kh_),… pic.twitter.com/u2KYvRUjBC

— Jonathan Bowen (@BostonByBirth) December 16, 2025

Want to know how extremist Brown University is?

Their professor of Palestinian Studies, Beshara B Doumani, was President of Birzeit University in Palestine from 2021-2023.

Birzeit is heavily financed by leftist NGOs and is the de facto home of the Hamas student solidarity… pic.twitter.com/4kt58jELMV

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) December 17, 2025

Hiring, teaching, paying, and training jihadists. To say nothing of the communists at SIPA.

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Hundred thousand conservative march on Providence, RI, in general, and Brown University, in particular?

If you watch the video where he knows the name but won't say the name and is pretty hostile in his weird response, look at the sign language translator. Her facial expressions are done to relay the tone of the speaker and wonderfully reflect his messaging. Very strange

There are different ways to handle it, but if I was going viral as a suspected murderer, I'd probably find some way to address it. At a minimum, have someone publicly state that I am horrified by the crime as much as anyone and had nothing to do with it, etc. Weird that everyone simply says "don't draw conclusions until you're told to," not "he didn't do it."

Doesn't mean he's the guilty party but it's odd and not going to do anything to squash suspicion.

oh no said:

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Do NOT let your children go off to college thinking they are going to be in some safe space for exploring different ideas and sharing different perspectives. Higher academia is not a place where the ideals of classical liberalism, such as individualism and personal liberty, free speech and religion, and tolerance, compassion, and peace, are accepted or tolerated.

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Promote lifelong self-enrichment so your kids can learn about history, art and culture...send them to school to learn to be a welder or electrician or equivalent...

Stay away from university environments. They've been systematically corrupted by the Left.

bonfarr said:

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Seeing accusation that the ASL interpreter at the PC was a phony. It did seem off with the weird facial expressions she was making and she looks like she has no teeth or dentures in her mouth.

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Lol. How many times has this happened now? This is at least the third example in the last year that I've seen on this. How does this keep happening?

oh no said:

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Do NOT let your children go off to college thinking they are going to be in some safe space for exploring different ideas and sharing different perspectives. Higher academia is not a place where the ideals of classical liberalism, such as individualism and personal liberty, free speech and religion, and tolerance, compassion, and peace, are accepted or tolerated.

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I'll add...do NOT let your children go to an Ivy League or a smaller liberal arts school unless it's Hillsdale. Ivy Leagues and liberal arts schools are far left-wing, ****hole academies.

NEW: Providence police ask for help identifying person seen near ‘person of interest’ in Brown University case https://t.co/NZHtyF7hfo

— ABC6 News Desk (@ABC6) December 17, 2025

bonfarr said:

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With every TV in the US having built in CC the only reason to have an interpreter for the deaf on the stage is for virtue signaling purposes. It's ridiculous.

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Conservative wife thought it was racist, when the police chief was speaking in Spanish, that there was no interpreter for the deaf Spanish speaker who might be watching.

For a very liberal state, that's not very inclusive.

Sid Farkas said:

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oh no said:

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Do NOT let your children go off to college thinking they are going to be in some safe space for exploring different ideas and sharing different perspectives. Higher academia is not a place where the ideals of classical liberalism, such as individualism and personal liberty, free speech and religion, and tolerance, compassion, and peace, are accepted or tolerated.

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Promote lifelong self-enrichment so your kids can learn about history, art and culture...send them to school to learn to be a welder or electrician or equivalent...

Stay away from university environments. They've been systematically corrupted by the Left.

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Cool idea, but somebody has to create knowledge.

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I'll add...do NOT let your children go to an Ivy League or a smaller liberal arts school unless it's Hillsdale. Ivy Leagues and liberal arts schools are far left-wing, ****hole academies.

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Or, do not let your children go to any school that has a Dept of Palestinian Studies (such as Brown has reference above). That would cover most if not all of the worst cesspools that call themselves colleges/universities.

I would say anyplace that offers a "(Race/Sex/Religion/Other) Studies" degrees, but way to many schools have these today.