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Brown University police chief placed on leave after two students killed in deadly classroom massacre
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 23 Dec 2025 | BRITTANY CHAIN

Posted on 12/23/2025 5:32:31 AM PST by V_TWIN

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The police chief at Brown University has been placed on leave as the school examines its response to a mass shooting that left two students dead.

University officials announced Monday that Rodney Chatman, the head of public safety at the school, was placed on leave effective immediately, and his day-to-day responsibilities were given to former Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements.

The decision comes amid intense scrutiny over the school's security policies in the wake of the December 13 mass shooting, during which students Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov were tragically killed and nine others left with injuries.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: brown; brownuniversity; dei; donutwatch; education; hughclements; police; rhodeisland; rodneychatman
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Guess the dei hire didn't work out so well

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1 posted on 12/23/2025 5:32:31 AM PST by V_TWIN
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“University officials” CYing their “A”


2 posted on 12/23/2025 5:33:41 AM PST by V_TWIN (America........so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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That whole town and school are DEI hellholes, and the people are circlefest clowns.


3 posted on 12/23/2025 5:37:39 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: V_TWIN

The article says this is routine during such an investigation.

I found this sentence interesting about his temporary replacement. Community-oriented policing?

“Clements, who is the former chief of police of the Providence Police Department, was appointed to temporarily replace Chatman as he is ‘nationally regarded for his expertise in community-oriented policing.’


4 posted on 12/23/2025 5:44:26 AM PST by plain talk
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This campus police chief is just a scapegoat for the leftists who run Brown University. If one looks at the big picture of this pathetic left of left school it goes right to the very top skank president who is Leftist in Charge.

Very glad that Bongino is leaving the FIB, no doubt he got frustrated with all the do-nothings there. Wonder what agreement was made to keep certain cases classified as we look forward to some truth.

Perfect example of your tax dollars at work.


5 posted on 12/23/2025 5:47:23 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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I guess Brown is serving sacrificial lamb for Christmas dinner.


6 posted on 12/23/2025 5:48:31 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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Or, Bongino realized to his dismay, that he was not capable of doing the job he had been given as a political sop


7 posted on 12/23/2025 5:50:05 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: plain talk

Community oriented policing is a term that has been used for the past ten years or so. It is a form of the policing system that the US Army used in Iraq. It’s focused on developing relationships with the local communities to assist them in maintaining law and order.

They use it in our local urban environments. The drug dealers still shoot each other. The terrorists still fired rockets in Sadr City. It sounds nice…but it doesn’t really work.


8 posted on 12/23/2025 5:51:21 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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“community-oriented”....What does that mean?? All policing is community oriented.


9 posted on 12/23/2025 5:52:04 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Do most people here believe the official story that they were killed by that Portuguese guy found dead in a storage shed and that the big break was due to a Reddit post from a so-called homeless guy named "John"?

To me, personally the story makes little to no sense and seems fishy as f***.

10 posted on 12/23/2025 5:52:57 AM PST by jpl ("You are fake news.")
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Once it came out that the custodian reported the killer casing the building to campus “security” not once but twice without anything being done, someone had to take the fall.


11 posted on 12/23/2025 5:54:14 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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So they fired the black guy. Hmmm….


12 posted on 12/23/2025 5:58:33 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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“Bongino is leaving the FIB, no doubt he got frustrated with all the do-nothings there.”

That’s exactly what I think.


13 posted on 12/23/2025 5:58:51 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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Or maybe the police chief was incompetent and misrepresented his job credentials. He was fired from his previous job in Utah in less then a year.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/12/18/brown-university-campus-safety-chief-lost-previous-job-after-lack-of-credentials/


14 posted on 12/23/2025 6:00:16 AM PST by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: V_TWIN
The DEI police chief and the DEI Brown president who hired him


15 posted on 12/23/2025 6:00:39 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Two Brown students and MIT physicist dead because this dude and his department ignored repeated warnings.

Convenient for the needed scapegoating.


16 posted on 12/23/2025 6:03:06 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Vermont Lt

Thanks.

Here is what the DoJ says about it. It seems rather innocuous. I read much of the document and almost fell asleep. :-)

https://portal.cops.usdoj.gov/resourcecenter/content.ashx/cops-p157-pub.pdf


17 posted on 12/23/2025 6:18:13 AM PST by plain talk
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“”””As part of sweeping security upgrades, the school will make it a priority to install additional cameras across campus, focusing on building entraces and common areas.””””


Still no comment from Brown regarding the allegation that the existing cameras were turned off to protect the illegals.


18 posted on 12/23/2025 6:21:36 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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Ah, Brown U...demonstrating the motto of our ivy league: “Standards? We don’t have no stinkin’ standards.”


19 posted on 12/23/2025 6:21:46 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Is he going to learn English?


20 posted on 12/23/2025 6:30:23 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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