Automatically, seconds after they learned of the mass shooting at Brown University last Saturday, Providence’s woke police department, with the DEI police chief, quickly concluded that a white man must have done the shooting. [Five decades ago, merit was outlawed as a qualification when hiring.] Americans are trained to ignore the obvious if it conflicts with their Leftist ideology. Ignoring that the “person of interest” in surveillance videos is overweight, looks like a middle-aged man and moves like a foreigner they, with the help of the FBI, arrested a slender, 24-year-old American man, an Army veteran named Benjamin Warren Erickson.
FOREIGNER, YOU SAY?
Take a close look at the still shot above. Watch the short surveillance video linked here. American men don’t walk with both hands clasped behind their backs. They just don’t. The next day I said that the shooter was raised in some foreign country where it is commonplace for men to walk like that. Period. End of subject. I refuse to believe that SOMEONE in law enforcement, hoping to quickly catch the shooter like they did with Charlie Kirk’s assassin, did not also notice. Utah set the standard for catching college shooters quickly. However, after about three decades of Americans being trained to ignore their eyes, ears, etc. if their senses conflict with woke ideology, anyone who noticed was afraid to mention it.
How Long Will Authorities Hide Brown University Shooter’s Motive?

I am dedicating this article to faithful Christian & Vice President of Brown University’s Republican Club Ella Cook and brilliant legal immigrant & neuroscience student Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov from Uzbekistan. Like Charlie Kirk, they had a lot to offer America. We
The author, Diane L. Gruber, is a First Amendment advocate who writes for Substack. She calls her Substack newsletter America First Re-Ignited. Follow me on X @DianeLGruber.
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