The Brown University Shooting Breakdown |
Douglas V. Gibbs ——Bio and Archives--December 21, 2025
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What happened at Brown University was not a tragedy. It was a catastrophic failure of leadership, security, and common sense. And the more we learn, the worse it looks.”
The Brown University campus, unfortunately, has been built more on “safe spaces” than true physical safety. Brown University is known nationally for its hard-left DEI‑heavy culture, its safe‑spaces, and its emotional‑protection ethos. But when it came to actual physical protection, the kind that stops bullets instead of microaggressions, the university fell dramatically short.
Brown is a gun‑free zone, a campus that prides itself on disarming everyone except the people who don’t follow rules. And yet, despite a multi‑billion‑dollar endowment, the school’s security infrastructure was shockingly inadequate.
Brown reportedly had 1,200 security cameras, but many were nonfunctional. Worse, there was a blind spot near the rear of the Barus & Holley engineering building, the very area where the shooter entered. According to federal investigators, the shooter (Claudio Manuel Neves Valente), a former Brown physics graduate student, knew the campus well and exploited those weaknesses.
And then there’s the leadership question.
Brown’s head of campus security previously worked at the University of Utah, where he reportedly left under pressure after failing to provide adequate credentials and facing performance concerns. At Brown, the campus police........