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The DNA of the Brown University suspected shooter has been gathered, and images and video of the person of interest in Saturday's deadly shooting at the Rhode Island Ivy League college match eyewitness descriptions, police told the Providence Journal.

Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said law enforcement has DNA of the suspected shooter "from inside" that could be used to confirm his presence at the scene once officials have someone to compare it to, the Journal reported.

'All video imagery has been turned over to law enforcement.'

The shooting took place in a first-floor classroom in the school's Barus and Holley building, which houses the School of Engineering and the physics department. Two students were fatally shot; nine others were wounded.

Attorney General Peter Neronha added to the Journal that DNA is "powerful" evidence because it can confirm the identity of a subject or rule people in or out after it's entered into a nationwide system.

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Perez also told the paper that witnesses and surviving students gave a description of the shooter that matches the person of interest as seen on video and in still images that law enforcement has distributed.

Neronha told the Journal that investigators are being protective of what witnesses have said about the shooter or the shooting so they can protect witnesses from being swayed by outside information.

"As we interview witnesses, we don't want them to learn facts from these press conferences. We want them to relay the facts that they have in their heads, including a person of interest," Neronha said during a news conference, according to the paper. "We don't want a person of interest to shape what they're telling us. ... So we're being careful about the facts that we're sharing for that reason, so that when we talk to witnesses, what we're getting is their factual recitation."

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Authorities have struggled to convince members of the public that, despite Brown University's vast resources, there was no camera working in the Barus & Holley Building that captured the shooter entering the building before opening fire.

Brown Provost Francis Doyle III said the school has 1,200 cameras on campus, including some in the old section of the building where the shooting occurred. But that does not mean the cameras captured an image of the shooter.

"All video imagery has been turned over to law enforcement," Doyle added, according to the paper.

A person of interest was initially detained over the weekend before law enforcement determined they had the wrong guy.

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The liberal myth of the 'first black Briton' just got blown out of the water



Liberals in the United Kingdom have worked desperately to paint white Britons uniquely as history's villains, erase them from British history, and/or programmatically undermine their unique claims to indigeneity in the isles.

The trouble for the institutional proponents of this vilification and revisionism campaign is that facts keep getting in the way.

Case in point: Recent DNA analysis confirms that the second-century skeleton gleefully identified by the BBC as the "first black Briton" was not a sub-Saharan African but rather a white woman.

'Her story has shifted over time and has sparked important debates about diversity.'

A skeleton was discovered in the 1950s in Beachy Head, England, which belonged to a young woman who lived in the second or third century. Her remains sat in storage for decades until 2012, when Jonathan Seaman, the heritage officer at the Eastbourne Borough council, and his team "came across two boxes, which said ‘Beachy Head, something to do with 1956 or 1959,’ and that was about it."

As there were virtually no records available about the remains, Seaman and his team worked to identify the Roman-era skeleton, sending it off for facial reconstruction, which was undertaken by Caroline Wilkinson, an academic then at Dundee University.

Seaman recalled, "Straight away on seeing this girl, [Wilkinson] said, 'Oh my, you realize you’ve got a sub-Saharan African here?’"

Seaman noted further:

Caroline subsequently had it looked at by two more experts who agreed, without being prompted, that this individual showed many traits of being a sub-Saharan African person. They were 100% sure that this was the origin of this lady. There are certain features of the skull that you can tell are Caucasian or African. We didn’t know her carbon date at that stage or anything about her, so again it just deepened the mystery. They reconstructed her, and as they did so, her African origins came out in the features of her face.

While the media made a big deal out of this supposed discovery, the BBC went further than most, hyping it both in its news coverage and in its 2016 "Black and British: A Forgotten History" documentary.

In the documentary, British-Nigerian host David Olusoga — overcome with delight at the sight of a facial reconstruction of the Beachy Head Woman with dark skin, dark eyes, and dark hair — tells Seaman, "So she's a black Briton? ... So she's the same as me — she's somebody who is both [British and African] but who spent their life in this country."

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Coastline near Beachy Head. Photo by: Bill Allsopp/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

As part of the documentary series, the BBC installed a plaque where the remains of the Beachy Head Woman were found, stating, "The remains of the 'BEACHY HEAD WOMAN' were found near this site. Of African origin, she lived in East Sussex 2nd-3rd century AD."

The plaque was removed in 2023 after DNA testing by the Crick Institute determined that the Beachy Head Woman's origin was not Africa but possibly Cyprus.

More recently, a research team led by Drs. Selina Brace and William Marsh of London's Natural History Museum and Andy Walton of University College London re-examined the skeleton using state-of-the-art DNA analysis techniques. They determined that the Beachy Head Woman was neither an African nor a Cypriot but a white local from the south coast of England.

According to the researchers' findings, which were published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, "she shows a close affinity to individuals from modern-day England and contemporary Roman-era Iron Age individuals in England and Northern continental Europe."

DNA results indicate that the Beachy Head Woman had blond hair, blue eyes, and "intermediate skin," with paleness weighted as more likely.

The researchers noted that "the decade-long investigation into Beachy Head Woman's origins has centered around how her story has shifted over time and has sparked important debates about diversity and how we portray individuals from our past. The results presented here will no doubt add to this."

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23andMe files for bankruptcy as founding CEO Anne Wojcicki seeks buyback for pennies on the dollar



DNA testing firm 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy in the United States following what was reported as weak demand since a catastrophic data breach in 2023.

As Reuters reported, founding CEO Anne Wojcicki announced her resignation but has quickly attempted to buy the company back at a much lower valuation than it had once peaked at.

Fortune originally reported that Wojcicki recently offered more than $74 million for the company, but soon updated its report with an SEC filing purporting to show an new purchase offer worth $42 million.

The recent valuations are light-years away from the $6 billion the company was reportedly worth after going public in 2021.

As Blaze News noted in early 2024, 23andMe's reputation took a massive hit when customers of the DNA-identifying company had their data breached, an infiltration that impacted 6.9 million account holders. This totaled nearly half of the company's users and resulted in dozens of lawsuits.

'Users negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords ...'

In a letter sent to users from a legal firm representing 23andMe, the company denied fault and shifted the blame onto users for using "recycled" passwords.

Cyber criminals used a method known as "credential stuffing," which involves hackers using login credentials taken from other hacks to attempt to log in to different online accounts belonging to the same person.

The 23andMe hack was accomplished through this method, with hackers gaining access to 14,000 user accounts, then using that access to gain further entry into the company's database of users who had opted into the website's DNA Relatives feature.

"As set forth in 23andMe's October 6, 2023 blog post, 23andMe believes that unauthorized actors managed to access certain user accounts in instances where users recycled their own login credentials — that is, users used the same usernames and passwords used on 23andMe.com as on other websites that had been subject to prior security breaches, and users negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords following these past security incidents, which are unrelated to 23andMe," the letter claimed.

Anne Wojcicki is the sister of recently deceased YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who was not seen favorably by YouTube content creators due to ongoing censorship and monetization issues.

The family connections have resulted in users asking where their data went, how it has been used, and why the founding CEO wants to buy back a failing company.

23andMe has been unable to maintain its user base since the data breach, with marketing ploys like continued feedback and personalized wellness plans failing to acquire repeat customers.

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Another race hoax? School board member charged after allegedly planting noose on her own desk



A member of the school board of directors in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been criminally charged after she apparently fabricated a race hoax by allegedly fashioning a noose and planting it on her desk.

Around 7:40 a.m. on January 10, the Allentown Police Department received a call from LaTarsha Brown, a 42-year-old city employee and school board member. Brown reported that a half-hour earlier, she had arrived at her desk on the third floor at City Hall and discovered "what she believed to be a noose" lying there, a statement from the APD said.

'Acts like this have long plagued our communities and serve as a painful reminder of the work still ahead.'

Brown reportedly acknowledged to police that she picked up the item and took a picture of it but did not do "much more than that." She also quickly fired off a lengthy email to her work colleagues, ostensibly about the alleged incident.

Within days, community activists gathered outside City Hall to demonstrate against the supposed "hate crime." "Enough is enough," wailed Union Baptist Church Pastor Benjamin Hailey, who referred to the alleged noose as "a symbol of hatred."

"Acts like this have long plagued our communities and serve as a painful reminder of the work still ahead," added state Rep. Napoleon Nelson (D-Montgomery), chairman of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus. "I am deeply dismayed but unfortunately not surprised."

By that time, law enforcement was already busy conducting an investigation into the alleged noose. Officers identified all the city employees who accessed the third floor of City Hall between the time Brown left work on the afternoon of January 9 until she returned to work the following day.

Cops also asked each of the employees whether they were willing to provide a sample of their DNA. "Every city employee agreed, except Ms. Brown," the APD statement said, though she eventually reversed course after the Lehigh County D.A.'s office secured a search warrant.

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At some point, Brown apparently seemed to lose interest in getting to the bottom of alleged noose. Though she was "initially cooperative," police said, Brown "later requested that the investigation be discontinued."

Her request was apparently denied, because the alleged noose and the DNA samples were sent over to the Pennsylvania State Police crime lab for testing.

On March 10, the PSP Forensic DNA Division issued a report claiming that "Ms. Brown's DNA matched the DNA profile obtained from the swabs of both the outer surface and the inner knotted portion of the noose after taken apart," APD claimed. APD reiterated that "no other person's DNA profiles" were found on the evidence collected in connection with the case.

On Monday, APD announced that Brown had been charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and filing a false report, both misdemeanors. Together, the charges carry a maximum sentence of three years in jail and a $7,500 fine.

'LaTarsha Brown is innocent. LaTarsha Brown deserves justice.'

Not only do police have forensic evidence that indicates Brown concocted a race hoax, but other circumstantial evidence may point to a possible motive.

By the time the alleged noose appeared on her desk, Brown had already filed discrimination complaints against a coworker and had even emailed her superiors on January 9 — the day before she found the apparent noose — to inquire about resolving those complaints via mediation, according to Lehigh Valley News, which cited court documents.

After finding the alleged noose, she emailed her bosses again, claiming to have reached her "breaking point."

Brown did not respond to a request for comment from Lehigh Valley News.

When reports of the alleged noose first broke, Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk expressed concern, calling it "horrible and unacceptable." However, he now seems less convinced of its legitimacy.

"It’s doubly shocking that an employee would — that she would have fabricated this incident," Tuerk said after Brown was charged.

Still, Brown has some supporters who remain convinced that she is the innocent victim of a vicious hate crime. Activist Josie Lopez, who orchestrated the noose protest back in January, claimed that the charges are a "smear campaign" against Brown in "retaliation" for daring "to stand up against injustice."

"LaTarsha Brown is innocent. LaTarsha Brown deserves justice," Lopez urged.

"I am calling on the people of Allentown, the media, and everyone who believes in justice to stand with LaTarsha. We will not be silent."

Brown is an elected member of the Allentown School Board of Directors, and her term expires this year. However, according to the Lehigh Valley News, she has yet to file paperwork to run for re-election, and the deadline for submission expired last week.

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