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DID CITY OFFICIALS JUST CELEBRATE THEIR OWN FAILURE? A mere day after the Brown University slaughter suspect was found dead, the very leaders who bungled the manhunt were greeted with a STANDING OVATION at a Providence College basketball game. This isn’t leadership—it’s a SPECTACLE of arrogance.
Mayor Brett Smiley and Police Chief Oscar Perez were APPLAUDED while questions about their disastrous investigation still scream for answers. They detained an INNOCENT man, kept the public in DARKNESS for six agonizing days, and presided over a city paralyzed by fear. And their reward? Cheers from a crowd.
This is a DANGEROUS new precedent: accountability isn’t just dead, it’s being mocked in the public square. While families grieve for two butchered students and a professor, the establishment pats itself on the back. The investigation was a TRAVESTY of transparency, relying on grainy video of a “stocky figure” with an “odd gait” while an immigrant on a visa lottery ticket, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, evaded capture until he took his own life.
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The SYSTEM failed at every turn, from the immigration pipeline that brought the killer here to the local authorities who fumbled the chase. Yet the message from Friday night is clear: In today’s America, perceived victory CRUSHES actual justice. The powerful rewrite failure as triumph before the blood is even dry.
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We are being conditioned to celebrate the very people who let danger fester in our streets. As the motives remain unknown and a community remains shattered, the applause still echoes—a haunting soundtrack to a nation losing its grip on reality.
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