Posted on 12/14/2025 10:23:22 AM PST by Drew68
The professor said her teaching assistant was leading the review session when a shooter entered a lecture hall and opened fire. The professor herself was not there.
Rachel Friedberg, a Brown University economics professor, said Saturday’s mass shooting at the school happened at a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course.
Friedberg said she was not present during the shooting. The session was led by her teaching assistants, she said, one of whom alerted her.
Friedberg then raced to Rhode Island Hospital, where an Ocean State Media reporter spoke with her. Friedberg said she heard the following account from the teaching assistant, who she said was not shot but visited the hospital to support several of their injured students.
“The room has stadium seating with doors that enter at the top,” Friedberg said. “He said that the shooter came in the doors, yelled something — he couldn’t remember what he yelled — and started shooting.”
“Students started to scramble to try to get away from the shooter, trying to get lower down in the stadium seating, and people got shot,” Friedberg said the teaching assistant told her. “I don’t know if they’re the only ones who got shot or not.”
Brown University President Christina Paxson confirmed at a press briefing later on Saturday night that at least 10 of the 11 people shot were students. And on Sunday she confirmed that the shooting took place in the Economics review session.
Friedberg said she still does not know the names of the two people that university officials say were killed in the shooting.
“I don’t know if they were my students. It’s really surreal to think about,” Friedberg said. “Just horrible.”
Friedberg declined to identify her teaching assistant by name, out of concern for his privacy. He could not be reached immediately for comment.
Friedberg is a teaching professor of economics at Brown and a faculty associate in the program for Judaic Studies. Her Principles of Economics course is the most heavily attended class at Brown, taken by half of all undergraduates, according to her online biographical notes.
“The professor herself was not there.”
Yes, that’s what TAs are for.
“Friedberg is...a faculty associate in the program for Judaic Studies.”
Yeah, I caught that.
When Brown's president said she didn't know what classroom the shooting happened in, she was full of s***.
She knew.
Finals will do that to you.
Can’t remember what the shooter yelled???
I suspect this one will be memory-holed in short order. Much too inconvenient for the preferred narrative.
Aloha at bar?
Weird. Doesn't make any sense. Must just be a crazy person.
Memory-holed? Doesn’t something need to be relevant in the first place for it to be memory-holed?
Has there been anything bad that has happened since the creation of the Earth that Trump hasn’t been blamed for?
Yeah, we all know where this is going. ABC is already firing up Tapper and Kimmel to “accidentally” say the shooter is white conservative so they can later quietly walk that back and admit it was a recently resettled Muslim.
The motive on this one is really hard to figure out...
for moron lefties.
Was George Floyd "relevant?"
“Yes, that’s what TAs are for.”
But she’s a self professed “Teaching Professor” [a class of faculty that I never heard of before...] !
I still proclaim the we need common sense Ivy League control.
>>”Was George Floyd “relevant?””
Relevant to what?
Wanna bet the shooter was yelling ALLAH AKBAR
Laura loomer is reporting tbat it’s all over x
“Yes, that’s what TAs are for.”
But she’s a self professed “Teaching Professor” [a class of faculty that I never heard of before...] !
I still proclaim that we need common sense Ivy League control.
I may have mis-interpreted your initial comment. It initially sounded like you were suggesting the professor might have been involved or had fore-warning of the attack (which was why she wasn’t present). But yes, if she was the intended target, then yes, it would be relevant.
.....“The room has stadium seating with doors that enter at the top,”......
Oh boy! I’ve been in several lecture halls “with doors that enter at the top”. The most iconic is MIT’s 26-100, where I was introduced to first-year Physics!
Harvard has rooms similar to that. And I’ve lectured in similar rooms in other universities.
I hope that other shooters don’t concoct strategies to use the layout of such rooms to kill more people! Lord have Mercy!
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