Following the deadly mass shooting at Brown University on December 13th, it took five full days before police in Salem, New Hampshire found the body of Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a Portuguese national, and former student at Brown, who had also shot and killed MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro last Monday in his home in Brookline Massachusetts, in a storage unit in Salem. Disturbing press conferences were held regularly by Providence and Brown officials from the day of the shooting right through to the discovery of the killer's body, which was made possible by information provided by a homeless man.
While most in the media accepted what was being said at face value, some, like Jesse Watters and Laura Ingraham of Fox News couldn't hide their disgust at the apparent incompetence and dismissive attitudes of those addressing the media. On last Friday night's edition of The Ingraham Angle, Ingraham let it fly in summing up what viewers had been subjected to for the previous five days.
INGRAHAM: Here's a headline for you, "homeless man smarter than high paid officials at Brown University." Now since last Saturday, it's been nothing but a showcase of incompetence. At the state, local and university levels are people who check various boxes but not the one that's labeled common sense...We saw them waste time by detaining the wrong person, we heard them admit that they didn't even know how many people were in the classroom, then we listened as they dismissed a connection to the MIT shooting. Then they confused the public about the location of video cameras. And then they told us they weren't even sure how long the shooter was in the building. But somehow, last night, (Wednesday) they thought that they would put it all and all doubts to rest.
Ingraham then played a clip which included Providence Police Chief Colonel Oscar L. Perez saying he was proud of his department, and the D.A. Peter Neronha praising his "team". and Brown University Police Chief Rodney Chatman, who praising Chief Perez. This led to more outrage from Ingraham.
"The Providence crew went on and on, and on, it was interminable. All we wanted to hear was the name of the shooter, how the case broke open, any information on motive... Just what we didn't want five days after these killings, a self-congratulatory confab where the left-wing mayor acted like he was kind of an MC for the awards ceremony.
She then played video of Providence Mayor Brett Smiley, who praised everyone you could imagine, which led Ingraham to call for the firing of all of them, with the exception of the FBI Special Agent Ted Docks, who she said "Knew what he was doing." She called it a "complete and total embarrassment." And she saved the worst for last.
"And the worst of the worst, the College(Brown) President (Christina Paxson) who makes $3 million a year.." Paxon failed repeatedly to explain why there were no cameras in the part of the building where the shooting took place. She instead praised neighborhood cameras, which she claimed "help crack this case."
Two days prior, on Wednesday's Jesse Watters Primetime, Watters, who had been equally as critical of those assembled on the podium throughout the ordeal, exposed just who some of them are and how they got to where they are. He started with Brown Police Chief Chapman.
WATTERS: We just discovered the Brown University Police Chief isn't really a big fan of policing. He once said this, 'communities don't want policing done to them'. How this guy came to Brown is a crazy story. He was the head of campus security at the University of Utah and right after he was hired there he was immediately suspended because he didn't have the proper credentials. ... So Rodney resigned and Brown said we will take you. Right before this shooting, Brown's police union issued a vote of no confidence in Chief Rodney... He's obviously completely unqualified.
And Watters revealed that the Providence Police Chief Perez, "could be compromised", explaining, "Turns out the Chief's nephew was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for running one of the largest fentanyl rings in Rhode Island. And Mayor Smiley promoted him to Chief knowing his family was trafficking. Why would Smiley do that? Because Smiley and the Chief speak the same language. The Chief's main goal is to diversify the department. It's too white."
Watters pointed out that the Providence City Council Chief of Staff (June Rose), who attended the pressers, "is a genderless bisexual who was arrested for protesting at Trump Tower this year."
Watters also informed the audience that Brown President Paxon, "..has been heckled for years by Muslim underclassmen. . Over the summer, radical left human rights groups demanded Brown disable their security cameras so Palestinian activists could raise hellunder the radar. Did they cave? We asked. No response."
Watters correctly said that the whole city of Providence, "is a DEI mess". Many questions remain. Most of the media will never address them. Bravo to both Jesse Watters and Laura Ingraham for focusing on the incompetence and political correctness that may have led to the death of two students and injuries to nine others. Now let's get answers.
