The question is: Did Brown University acquiesce under pressure from far-left human rights groups to disable their CCTV systems, in advance of the mass shooting on campus?
As originally reported in August 2025 {SOURCE}, a group of far-left human rights advocates sent a letter to 150 U.S. colleges and universities asking them to disable the CCTV systems to protect “free expression and academic freedom across the country,” because “the Trump administration has launched an aggressive campaign against US academic institutions.”
The motive for the request to disable CCTV systems as stated: “Right now these tools are facilitating the identification and punishment of student protesters, undermining activists’ right to anonymity––a right the Supreme Court has affirmed as vital to free expression and political participation.” {SOURCE}
The letter from ‘Fight For The Future‘ (August, 2025) came after an earlier campaign by the same group seeking to stop the use of facial recognition cameras on college campuses. {SOURCE}
The Brown University President and school officials have been giving ridiculous answers to questions about the 800 cameras on the campus and the fact that no current footage exists of the shooter walking around inside the campus or inside the buildings therein.
The question is really a simple one. Did Brown University follow the requests of the hardline leftist groups who asked the school to disable the functioning of their surveillance network in order to protect the identity of the students on campus?
Obviously, this potential explanation would answer a lot of seemingly irreconcilable questions about the lack of surveillance footage available to local law enforcement, state police and FBI investigators. The only current footage of the shooter is from privately owned doorbell cameras and CCTV systems from businesses near the campus. No footage of the shooter on campus has been identified.
Against the factual evidence of Brown University receiving requests to disable their surveillance cameras, someone needs to ask the right question.
Everyone can see the potential ramifications here, along with the severity of the legal risk Brown University would be facing. Perhaps that dynamic is what’s behind the twisted wording and explanations coming from university and local officials.
A targeted political assassination of a young, female conservative vice-chair of the Brown University Republican group takes place. The ideological shooter benefits from the lack of school security and surveillance. That lack of security was intentionally created by ideological school administrators and officials bowing to pressure from ideologically aligned leftist organizations.
If accurate, this is quite a scenario on many levels; including a considerable legal risk, intentional and willful negligence, and massive lawsuit exposure in the aftermath of two deaths and 9 injured students. Brown University has an $8 billion endowment.
As everyone understands, a University like Brown creates a local economy unto itself. College towns like Providence, Rhode Island are college towns for a reason. The college is a considerable foundation for the economic wealth of the community. As an outcome, the local officials would be in full protection mode over their economic foundation. In this case, there are billions at stake.
Perhaps this dynamic explains all the conflicts and seemingly bizarre statements by local and university officials. WATCH:
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Just an FYI… NO GUN-FREE RESTRICTED AREA EVER CAUSED A MASS SHOOTER TO STOP OR HESITATE… and an area without CCTV always made Bad Actors act with redouble their EVIL INTENTIONS.
Wouldn’t insurance be on them for not having surveillance cameras? Anyone can commit arson, too,, without being recorded.
They, the ‘activists and protesters’, can do anything they want without being recorded. That’s the idea.
They’re the ones burning and tearing stuff down.
That’s exactly it. The left wants their own activists to burn, destroy and protest in any means they want with no actual evidence to help identify culprits. Brown better have deep pockets.
The Army of Useful idiots…doing the dirty work for the globalists who are the real ones orchestrating the demise of our country.
An entity with the endowment Brown has is no doubt self-insured.
they may have a very large deductible but I’d be surprised of hey were totally self insured – the potential liabilities are too big
the policy mat require actively working surveillance cameras with regular maintenance in order for coverage to be in effect
“The question is: Did Brown University acquiesce under pressure from far-left human rights groups to disable their CCTV systems, in advance of the mass shooting on campus?”
And the question after is, did Brown act on this letter? If so, did a certain student named Mustapha, with all of his connections and flattery by the university, know of the letter and what action the administration took?
“Against the factual evidence of Brown University receiving requests to disable their surveillance cameras, someone needs to ask the right question.”
In follow up to the questions above about the letter, why did it take the Providence PD 4 days to ask the public for Ring camera video?
Of the Ring camera video released, is it located near any campus cameras that should have captured video? If so, where is the video then from that campus camera?
Here’s a better question. How many other schools got the letter and disabled their security cameras? Inquiring parents want to know.
Either this or, as being reported by others, Brown may have disabled cameras for protection of illegal
aliens. Let’s see what breaks as accurate, but regardless, something is definitely amiss!
I have to wonder how many other Universities have disabled their cameras. We could be having a whole lot more of these
shootings with these perps getting away, which would inspire even more.
I wonder about the Uzbekhi guy that was killed also.
Probably not a radical, just the pride of a wealthy family back home.
Could have just been a harmless friend/ co-student of the Alabama girl.
Just in the line-of-fire, or targeted?
Back in the late 90’s I did a co-worker a favor by hiring her son for a menial position. He had been looking for a job almost 2 years after graduation. He had a BA in Early American Literature from Brown. He quickly became my best shipping clerk. Fast forward 30 years and he is a Logistics Director at a Fortune 500 company, he is 2 steps from the CEO position. You have go to get in the door.
Wow!
Aren’t you the enlightened one.
Early American literature degree? Whoooeee!
That’s sure to be an informative and fascinating subject at your cocktail parties.
Are you serving those little finger sandwiches with the crusts cut off?
MMMMmmmm those are tasty. Maybe some shrimp puffs too, love those…
Some people have to study their literature and history. G-d bless him. The society, that doesn’t know its roots, doesn’t have a future.
He didn’t ask for government support, did he?
Atful-??=no
Zombir-??=yeah
Did Brown follow the recommendations in the letter?
Heck, they probably helped write them!
I see this a little differently. Sundance always wants the unvarnished truth.
I know turning off those surveillance cameras helps the protesters and people doing harm. It also makes it harder for people to be caught when doing this.
I also know this is private property, so it makes it a little different.
But, to me, I think we WANT to turn off the constant surveillance. We WANT to get rid of the patriot act and all the surveillance cameras in all of our cities.
As it’s always stated, Liberty IS more important than safety. If you give up your liberty for temporary safety, you’ll soon have neither.
Now, do I not think that the double standard should be pointed out? Of course not. We most definitely should. Do I think Brown should be off the hook, probably not.
It was interesting to see that they could not or would not clearly answer anything about the cameras not being off. They tried to twist it to say it’s an older building, etc.
The questions should be. Have there ever been cameras in that building? How many cameras are there now? How many are working? Have any been removed? Have any been disabled? If so, why? If so, how many?
It is the governing authority’s responsiblility to provide security—ie: Controlled Borders. It is also the governing authority’s responsibility to guarantee freedom. All in concert with constitutional requirements.
Accomplishing this constitutionally will provide information to all citizens information. A balancing act, like a person walking on a rod narrower than their feet, but using a long pole for balance. Hence Ben’s remark on “keeping it”.
Sundance
Realclear linked this article this morning.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
They put out their morning links at 8.
Don’t see any increase in posts, but maybe you’ll have a spike in people reading.
If true, Brown University should be prosecuted for this, both criminally and civilly.
This tells me the communists at BU planned the assassination of Charlie Kirk since at least August.
Whatever happened to the notion “there’s no expectation of privacy when in public.”?
The very least this lefty university owed their students and faculty was the honesty. The honesty to declare that the cameras were inoperative. Give these poor prey the option of not attending their crappy scho ol. Was it worth dying over. I think not.l. Any parent, even if you are a staunch liberal, should consider taking your kids somewhere else. Preferably to a red state in a red city. Or keep sending your children to the killing pens of blue cities.
This entire “investigation” is a DEI clown-show.
Woke won’t just get you broke. It will get you dead.
Shame upon Brown U’s ruling class.
MIT physics prof was also murdered in Brookline, MA. There are now links between that case and the Brown attack.
(Legitimate) conspiracy theories are about to hit the fan.
Five or ten years ago did any one ever think they would actually WANT mass surveillance? Ever feel like you have been played by a bad cop good cop con? This is truly manipulation at it’s finest!
Some body somewhere has FREEDOM lovers willing to give it up to big brother and LIKE IT?
The US has been trained to accept being eyeballed 24/7, 365 for years. Spy movies, TV series like 24 and so on.
Yeah, looks like there are good reasons, like solving crimes, to capitulate. I understand the tension.
Privacy. Just another word we used to have in freedom’s vocabulary.
Now we see the really bad guys wanting to NOT be watched. That’s because they do most of the domestic terrorism.
IF ANYONE THINKS WHAT IS GOING ON NOW IS BAD…Let the crazy rad dimms & insane Islamists win the midterms.
J6, parents arrested at school boards, Tina Peters style whistle blowers, elderly silent praying at baby slaughter houses, & any one the demonic left even thinks supported Trump & wants to restore the US Constitution will hunted down & imprisoned! They have already done dry runs like their contrived J6 fed-surection & other examples.
SamFox