{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lee.senate.gov/2026/5/lee-colleagues-demand-answers-from-brown-university-on-failure-to-prevent-tragedy", "Lee, Colleagues Demand Answers from Brown University on Failure to Prevent On-Campus Killings", "2026-05-14", "2026", "2026-05", "Republican", "Senate", "UT", "Mike Lee", "L000577", "www.lee.senate.gov", "mikelee", "https://www.lee.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), along with a coalition of his colleagues in the House and Senate, demanded answers from Brown University regarding the school's shocking negligence resulting in a recent on-campus killing. The university sacrificed safety equipment to pacify woke ideologues and adopted a blatantly anti-police posture, leaving students hopelessly vulnerable to an on-campus attack that killed two students and injured nine \u2013 all while Brown\u2019s alert system lagged for a stunning and deadly seventeen minutes.\n\n\u201cBrown University abandoned its students, choosing to virtue signal rather than protect them from being killed on their own campus,\u201d said Senator Mike Lee. \u201cIn the last five years alone, Brown University has ignored attack threats, undermined their own campus police force, and apologized for using security cameras when woke activists called them a \u2018tool of oppression\u2019 \u2013 all while dorms were broken into and robbed year after year. This is shockingly ridiculous and abhorrently negligent. The tragic on-campus killings in December may have been averted had Brown not chosen optics over their students\u2019 safety. I demand answers and accountability for these victims and their families.\u201d\n\nSenators Katie Britt (R-AL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Representatives Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Mike Lawler (R-NY), Barry Moore (R-AL), Mike Rogers (R-AL), Dale Strong (R-AL), and Gary Palmer (R-AL) are the letter\u2019s additional signees.\n\n\u201cWe write as concerned Members of the United States Congress to express profound outrage and demand accountability for the tragic and preventable murders that occurred on the Brown University campus on December 13, 2025. The deaths of Ella Cook, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, and the wounding of nine others were not unforeseeable tragedies. Public reporting, sworn testimony, police union statements, Brown\u2019s public records, and the assailant\u2019s own words clearly establish that these deaths were made possible by more than a decade of deliberate policy decisions that prioritized activists\u2019 radical demands over student safety,\u201d wrote the members of Congress.\n\nThe members of Congress go on to recount Brown University\u2019s consistent caving to far-left, anti-law enforcement activists, putting the safety and security of their students at risk, noting the following:\n\n\u201cAfter more than a decade of poor choices, Brown leadership\u2019s decisions left its campus and students vulnerable on December 13, 2025. The University had only five officers on duty, a system of non-functional or unstaffed security cameras, and ignored multiple warnings from campus employees about the assailant. These alarming failures, compounded by an incomprehensible 17-minute delay in activating the BrownAlert system, allowed the assailant to fire off 44 unchallenged shots \u2013 killing two innocent students and injuring nine others. Brown\u2019s mistakes were not isolated lapses; they were the predictable outcome of an institutional culture so corroded that it treated legitimate law enforcement and physical security as ideological threats rather than essential protections.\u201d\n\nRead exclusive coverage by The Free Press here.\n\nRead the full text of the letter here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-05-15T06:17:41Z", "2026-05-15T06:18:51Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.lee.senate.gov/2026/5/lee-colleagues-demand-answers-from-brown-university-on-failure-to-prevent-tragedy"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4648281503468752, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}