Brown University’s police chief Rodney Chatman — a progressive, “toxic,” teddy-bear hugging, chief running a “s—tshow” department — is being criticized for the lax security measures and lack of surveillance that allowed Claudio Neves Valente to gun down two students and get away.
Chatman, Brown’s vice president for public safety and emergency management, has come under scrutiny after the campus security breakdown which saw freshman students Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokob and Ella Cook slaughtered in a classroom of a physics building on Dec. 13, during a study session just before finals week.
And I did nothing
It brought back a much older memory. In the 1980s and 1990s, media stories, television shows, and political rhetoric frequently claimed that elderly Americans were so destitute, they were “forced to eat cat food,” because it was all they could afford. I remember hearing this as a child, and even then it didn’t ring true. I’ve been a pet owner most of my life. I know what cat and dog food cost, even the cheap stuff. And as a mom who often lived on the edge of poverty, I know what human staples cost, too. Tuna, ramen, rice, beans, oatmeal — these have always been cheaper, pound for pound and calorie for calorie, than commercially prepared 