A physical altercation over the weekend in Rhode Island ended with one college football player dead, another player with stabbing injuries, and an illegal alien getting arrested on murder charges.

Chukwunonso Uzoma David Uzoma Eze of Nigeria allegedly stabbed the two men during an altercation in a parking lot near the Mezzo Lounge in Providence at about 12:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Eze was arrested by UMass Dartmouth police and charged with murder. He is also a student at the university.

Eze was given deferred action from deportation twice — once under the Biden administration and once under the second Trump administration, a source familiar with the matter told Blaze News.

18-year-old Marvins Antoine was stabbed in the chest and died later at a hospital, while 19-year-old Kensley Macean was stabbed in the head and neck but survived.

Both were UMass Dartmouth football players.

Eze was arrested by UMass Dartmouth police and charged with murder. He is also a student at the university.

The man entered into the U.S. legally in 2015 but is now considered a “criminal illegal alien from Nigeria,” according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson.

ICE Boston placed an immigration detainer request on him after his arrest.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “ICE is working diligently to remove these violent, dangerous offenders from our communities.”

Eze was approved for deferred action on deportation by the Biden administration in Sept. 2022, according to the source, and then again under the Trump administration in Oct. 2025. Deferred action allows the migrant to stay in the U.S. but does not bestow a legal status.

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He also applied for a work permit in 2023, but that request was rejected.

The UMass Dartmouth football team had just played that evening when the two players were stabbed.

Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said that police utilized Flock cameras to track and identify Eze.

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On Wednesday, the White House released an anti-communism TV ad titled “America Will Never Be a Communist Country.” It started airing on Fox News and Newsmax the same night Xi Jinping touched down in the United States for a summit.

Glenn Beck believes the contents and the timing of the ad are no coincidence.

He points out that the ad’s montage of images feature “[Trump] with the people” and “in the Oval Office,” followed by several clips of jets and bombers.

“[Trump] is showing the people love me; I am everywhere; I am doing everything; I have a huge apparatus and a huge support in the country. Oh, and one more thing. I have the toughest effing military in the world,” says Glenn.

He believes Trump “is sending Xi a message”: “We love you. You’re a great friend. But we will never be communist.”

“That commercial is, I think, more for the Chinese than it is for you,” he says, noting that the message was likely also targeted at New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Trump, Glenn explains, is deliberately flexing American military muscle. Just as he fills the Oval Office with gold as “a projection of power for the Europeans,” he is showing Xi Jinping that “America is not weak, that Trump is not weak.”

China’s perception, he claims, is that Americans are weak complainers.

“They hear us as a bunch of whiny people. … We have told the entire world, every enemy of ours, we have no stomach for war. … You hit us with gas, we’re done,” says Glenn.

“Notice that Xi stayed out of the conflict with Iran for a while — until when? Until we started whining about gas. He saw that, and he went, ‘Ah, they’re going to back out because the American people won’t put up with it.’ That’s when he got involved.”

When Xi arrived in the U.S. this week, Trump’s “number one job,” Glenn speculates, was to sit him down and show that neither America nor Trump is weak — regardless of what the polls say.

He conjectures that Trump was indirectly telling Xi, “I don’t care if I have a 4% approval rating. I don’t care what you’ve heard about our military. I got so much stuff packed in mountains that nobody even knows about, and I’ll use all of it.”

“He has to convince Xi to back out,” says Glenn, explaining that China “is doing more to hurt our gas prices than anybody else because China is now supplying things for the Iranian people.”

What everyone is missing about Trump’s anti-communism ad, he argues, is that it’s directly tied to lowering gas prices.

“So when you see [this ad], know one thing,” says Glenn. “That’s the president working for you at the gas pump. That is the president saying, ‘I hear the American people. I know what’s going on. The number one guy who is making that price go up is President Xi.’”

Trump is trying to cut off Iran’s “lifeline,” he explains. Even though it’s China sitting in the Oval Office, Iran is getting a clear indirect message: “You’re not phoning any friends anymore. You’re isolated. You’re alone. I’m going to collapse you. And if I can’t collapse you, I’ll kill every single one of you one by one. You are not going to survive.”

To hear more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the video above.

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Multiple NFL players were fined this week for what the league called a celebration made “in poor taste.”

Unfortunately for the NFL, the moments that transpired afterward made it incredibly easy to mock the league’s front office as hypocritical.

‘An offensive demonstration and could reasonably be construed as being in poor taste.’

The players in question included San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk, who, after catching a pass for a touchdown in the third quarter against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, performed a celebration that made it look like he was chugging a beverage.

The NFL took issue with that, fining him $14,926 and telling the player his “imitation of chugging a beer constituted an offensive demonstration and could reasonably be construed as being in poor taste.”

As ESPN reporter Adam Schefter reported, not only did Juszczyk immediately appeal the fine, the fullback’s nickname is “Juice,” meaning it is arguable that he could have been imitating drinking a glass of juice.

To make matters worse, fans and reporters alike immediately pointed out the number of prominent beer ads and sponsorships associated with the NFL, including Bud Light under its Anheuser-Busch partnership that runs through 2027.

While some online critics artificially placed a Bud Light ad right after Juszczyk’s touchdown, it’s not far from what actually happened.

According to the Athletic’s 49ers reporter Matt Barrows, not only did a Michelob Ultra beer commercial air in the ad block right after Juszczyk scored, so did a FanDuel gambling ad that featured beer drinking. Michelob is under Anheuser-Busch while FanDuel is also an NFL sponsor.

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Indianapolis Colts guard Matt Goncalves was also fined $8,847 for a similar “offensive demonstration” that was labeled “chugging a beer.”

Backlash from journalists and athletes alike was swift but focused on “Juice” in particular.

Former NFL player and three-time defensive player of the year J.J. Watt asked the most obvious question: “Could it not be ‘reasonably construed’ that he is drinking … stay with me here … Juice?”

George Kittle, 49ers tight end, posted a picture of his teammate holding a can of Bud Light and joked, “He can’t be stopped!! This is before practice! Are you kidding me?”

Sportscaster Linda Cohn called the NFL’s punishment “HEAD SHAKING HYPOCRISY,” while Fox analyst Jason McIntyre asked, “The NFL can have beer as a sponsor, but a fullback can’t do a celebration pretending to chug a beer?”

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According to reporter Schefter, in addition to his appeal, Juszczyk also texted that he has done the celebration before without being fined, adding, “And I don’t even drink beer!”

Juszczyk also took to wife Kristin’s TikTok account to partake in a video of him squeezing oranges into a glass with the caption, “$14,926 glass of juice.”

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The U.S. Supreme Court says in a split decision Friday that the Trump administration can follow through with a new way of cross-checking voter eligibility.

All of the liberal justices dissented against the ruling that temporarily allows states to check voters’ citizenship status while the case continues.

‘We will be doing everything in our power to protect Americans’ voting and privacy rights by ensuring that the district court decision stands.’

States can use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system organized by the Department of Homeland Security and check voter eligibility.

Opponents of the SAVE program claim that lawful voters will be wrongly declared ineligible to vote.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made the argument in a scathing dissent that was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.

“The Court focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the modified SAVE system has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters,” she wrote.

“The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the Government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take,” Jackson added.

The Supreme Court order stayed a federal judge ruling from June that blocked the expanded SAVE system, determining doing so violated Americans’ privacy rights.

The DHS General Counsel James Percival reacted to the ruling on social media.

“Yes, you read that right. We had to file an emergency petition in the Supreme Court just so we could use government data to help states stop noncitizens from illegally voting,” he wrote.

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The plaintiffs in the case, which included the League of Women Voters, said the effort was not over and that they would continue to challenge the SAVE system.

“This case is not over,” the group said in a statement. “The D.C. district court ruled that the expanded SAVE program violated multiple laws. We will be doing everything in our power to protect Americans’ voting and privacy rights by ensuring that the district court decision stands.”

Jackson also warned that the states could use the SAVE system to “cancel the voter registrations of at least some recently naturalized citizens.”

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) railed against the “mental illness” of “transgenderism” and “furries” for nearly 20 minutes on the floor of the Senate Wednesday, but you’d never know it by reading the news headlines.

Instead, leftist media focused on one line from Tuberville’s speech. Tuberville, now running for governor of Alabama, claimed that an unnamed furry group “touts … many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers” among its members.

‘There is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry.’

“Lord, help us. It’s terrifying when you think about this. When you walk onto a commercial flight, it’s possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal. You can’t make this up,” he added.

A Rolling Stone headline about the speech read, “GOP Senator Ahead of Midterms: Furry Airline Pilots Are ‘Terrifying,'” while the headline from AL.com quoted a response from Tuberville’s Democratic opponent: “Doug Jones: Tuberville’s furry pilot Senate floor speech is ‘the strangest I have ever heard.'”

Strange though it may be, Tuberville was not wrong.

The Air Line Furries Association claims on its website that “many members of the furry community work[] in all aspects of aviation, including pilots, FAs, mechanics, ATC, CSAs, schedulers, dispatch, IT, and more.”

Mallory Jaspers, the communications director for Tuberville’s gubernatorial campaign, seemed to confirm that ALFA is the group Tuberville had in mind, noting in an email to Blaze News, “The Airline Furries Association International, while not affiliated with any airline and not an official union, is an online hub for people who work in the airline industry and are furries.”

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Furries have seemingly infiltrated almost every industry and hobby group. The annual Furry Migration convention, held two weeks ago in Minneapolis, offered breakout sessions for K-pop music, live streamers, songwriting, and of course, aviation.

Shawn McHenry, a “Minnesota Furs Staff & Convention Conchair” who refers to himself as “Rico Raccoon” in his email signature, told Blaze News that he personally knows “that there’s all sorts of other aviation professionals in the space,” such as “mechanics, flight instructors, pilots, flight attendants, grounds crew, crew schedulers.”

The number of aviation personnel who participate in furry culture while off the clock is difficult to estimate. McHenry guessed that about 30 people attended the aviation breakout session at the convention, but that number would have included aviation professionals as well as people with just an interest in aviation.

The ALFA group also appears to have little online reach and almost no activity. Though it promises “stories” and “news,” it includes no stories and three news “articles” full of gibberish Latin. The last website update and the group’s most recent X post both came in 2022.

Blaze News reached out to major pilot, flight attendant, and ATC unions to see whether their members had ever faced furry-related complaints or disciplinary issues, but did not receive any responses.

Of note, a clip of frequency chatter involving pilots at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport went viral back in April because the pilots were making animal sounds.

On the audio, the two pilots trade “meows” before a third male interjects: “You guys, uh, need to be professional pilots.” The reprimand does not seem to have any effect, as the one pilot unleashes a string of “meows,” while the other barks like a dog.

The FAA told NBC News at the time that it had opened an investigation into the incident. Blaze News followed up with the agency to see whether the pilots had ever been disciplined and whether the incident had been linked to furries, but the agency did not respond.

Tuberville seemed to connect the pilot-meowing to furries, tweeting on Thursday:

I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week. But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry. Don’t believe me? Just a few months ago, PILOTS were MEOWING and BARKING at each other over the radio at DCA.

The tweet has since received a community note.

McHenry, a senior software engineer, does not see furry pilots as a problem.

“The furry pilots I know keep their personal interests separate from their work. They’re skilled professionals doing their jobs,” he said.

“Treating the furry fandom itself as a safety issue unfairly casts suspicion on qualified professionals without evidence. They deserve to be judged by how they do their jobs, just like anyone else.”

Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, told Blaze News:

Putting individuals who identify as transgender and as furries, who are already in a vulnerable mental state, in a high-stress situation is not good for them, and it is not good for the people they are serving. … The priority should be to treat the underlying cause of the gender confusion, not enabling the fantasy. These people are suffering. We need to stop enabling them and start giving them the help they need so they can live their best life.

A correlation between transgenderism, furries, and violence has become a growing concern in recent years, especially following the murder of Charlie Kirk, allegedly by Tyler Robinson. When Robinson was arrested, his male romantic partner, Lance Twiggs, reportedly identified as transgender and professed to be transitioning to female.

Shortly after Kirk was assassinated, Blaze News compiled a list of four other incidents with furry perpetrators involving violence or the sexual abuse of minors. We also included a series of studies and news reports revealing that the furry culture is almost always grounded in deviant sex and sexual identity.

If Robinson is convicted, prosecutors intend to pursue the death penalty. He is scheduled to appear in court again on October 23.

Editor’s note: This article has been edited after publication to include a statement from Terry Schilling.

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The Democrat mayor of St. Paul — who once proclaimed that she is “illegal in this country” — has been hit with a lawsuit by her own police chief over shocking sexual harassment accusations, according to new court documents. The police chief said the mayor has “embarked on a campaign” of retaliation.

On Wednesday, St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry filed the lawsuit against Mayor Kaohly Her over alleged “inappropriate” encounters, sexual harassment, and retaliation, NBC News reported.

‘Why is Tim’s bigger?’

Mayor Her, 53, created “a hostile and demeaning environment” for the chief’s staff by sending a meme about “good weinering,” according to the 73-page lawsuit filed in Ramsey County District Court.

NBC News reported, “‘Wienering’ is an internet slang term for sexual intercourse and is frequently misspelled as ‘weinering.'”

The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that Her made “unwanted and nonconsensual physical contact” with Henry by “placing her hand on his upper thigh beneath a conference-room table — not once, but twice — during a [St. Paul Police Department] budget meeting.”

According to the complaint, Assistant Chief Paul Ford witnessed the contact.

According to the court filing, Her stood with Henry and Deputy Chief Tim Flynn during a police academy graduation on Feb. 19, 2026, and asked the police chief: “Why is Tim’s bigger?” The lawsuit asserts that Her made a “facial expression that suggested to Henry the comment was meant to be a sexual innuendo regarding the size of his penis,” the New York Post reported.

Henry, who has led the St. Paul Police Department since 2022, asked the mayor what she was referring to, and she allegedly pointed toward the ribbon bar on his uniform, according to the court filing.

The court filing states that at least five police officers witnessed Her making loud grunting and moaning noises while exercising at the St. Paul police department gym. The lawsuit claims these workout sounds were intentionally exaggerated to sound sexual.

The left-wing mayor allegedly approached officers working out and called them “beefy,” according to the lawsuit.

On multiple occasions in January 2026, Her allegedly photoshopped the faces of Henry and other police department members onto a variety of bodies, including boy band members, UFC fighters, and “bodybuilders with prominent bulges in the crotch area of their compression shorts,” the court document states.

The suit, which names Her and the city as defendants, says the mayor printed the photoshopped images, placed them in gold frames, and displayed them throughout the police department. Some of the altered images were displayed in areas accessible to both sworn officers and civilians, showing pictures of police leadership “being mocked and sexualized” in public view, the complaint alleges.

The complaint claims that after two officers saw one of the doctored images, “they both remarked that their wives would be offended if they saw it,” and Chief Henry’s longtime partner described the images as “offensive and utterly inappropriate.”

Her allegedly pasted her own headshot over official staff command portraits, department awards, and SWAT retirement plaques within the police department hallways, the lawsuit states.

The court filing states that Her scolded Henry for failing to find the photoshopped pictures amusing, telling the police chief he lacked “a sense of humor.”

In December, Her and Henry met with St. Paul Port Authority President Todd Hurley at a cigar lounge to discuss possibly relocating the police station to downtown to help spur local business growth.

The Minnesota Star Tribune, citing the lawsuit, reported, “Her allegedly told Henry at that meeting that if she didn’t get her way, she would just tell people that Hurley ‘grabbed her ass.'”

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Blaze News previously reported that Henry filed a formal complaint with the city attorney on April 1, claiming that the mayor sent “inappropriate, and indeed, unlawful text messages” to city staffers.

An investigation of the accusations was launched just six months into her term.

The lawsuit alleges that Her’s administration then “embarked on a campaign” of retaliation.

“But instead of accountability, the retaliation began. Rather than confront Mayor Her’s misconduct, her administration, and those acting at her direction, embarked on a campaign to retaliate against and discredit Chief Henry,” the lawsuit states.

The suit accuses St. Paul officials of violating the Minnesota Whistleblower Act when they “engaged in a series of retaliatory acts.”

Minnesota Public Radio reported, “Henry says Her retaliated after he filed a human resources complaint by excluding him from personnel decisions, publicly criticizing his complaint, and giving raises to other members of the police command staff but not to him.”

The complaint claims Her hired a private public relations firm to discredit Henry after the investigation began.

“[Henry] knew that accusing the Mayor of St. Paul of sexual harassment could jeopardize his career,” the suit reads. “He reported it anyway. He did so because he recognized the seriousness of the misconduct, the vulnerability of those subjected to it, and the likelihood that the conduct would continue if no one spoke up.”

The investigation into Her wrapped up less than a week before the lawsuit was filed, and a two-page summary of the outside investigation was released last Friday.

The misconduct investigation said Her “engaged in offensive and inappropriate behavior” in violation of St. Paul’s workplace conduct policy, but that she did not sexually harass or retaliate against anyone.

Matt Wagenius, a spokesman for the mayor, said in a statement that the independent investigation “did not substantiate claims of sexual harassment or retaliation against any city employee.”

Wagenius stated that the mayor “will continue to lead Saint Paul and follow the recommendations of the report.”

“Beyond that, the City of Saint Paul doesn’t comment on active litigation,” the statement concluded.

Chris Madel, Henry’s attorney, told the Minnesota Star Tribune, “Axel Henry is an honorable man and a dedicated public servant. He didn’t come forward for attention or advantage — he came forward because what happened was wrong and needed to be reported.”

Madel continued, “We look forward to proving our allegations in a court of law, where all evidence, not some sanitized summary written by the City about itself, can finally be heard.”

Henry’s lawsuit requests that the city release the full report on its investigation into Mayor Her.

The suit also demands a jury trial to determine damages for “lost wages and benefits, emotional distress, humiliation, and harm to reputation.”

Her’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

As Blaze News previously reported, Her shockingly admitted that she and her parents are in the United States illegally.

Her, who was born in Laos, defiantly claimed on the state House floor in June 2025: “And so, I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country.”

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BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales has quickly become the queen of busting H-1B fraud in the state of Texas. Her on-the-ground reporting and investigative work have produced big results: Governor Greg Abbott (R) froze new H-1B hiring at state agencies and universities, Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) issued civil investigative demands to nearly 30 North Texas companies, and the Labor Department’s inspector general joined her on the ground in Dallas targeting ghost offices tied to hundreds of visa petitions.

And now Congress is getting involved.

On this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” Sara is joined by Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) to discuss a bill she says will implement substantial fines against H-1B fraudsters and companies that fire Americans to hire cheaper foreign labor.

H-1B fraud has essentially become its own “industry,” says Van Duyne.

“It’s basically human trafficking, where they’re bringing people in, charging them, and then having them just kind of hang out while they are collecting dollars based on their work,” she explains.

“But once they’re in the country, then they’re getting student visas, they’re coming back, and then eventually, if they’re not getting paid, they’re ending up on some kind of NGO list, where they are indirectly benefiting from taxpayer dollars.”

Sara brings up the original intention of the H-1B visa: “a temporary non-immigrant visa” that allows someone to “work here” and then “go home.”

It was designed “to help U.S. businesses be able to be globally competitive by bringing the best of the best. This was supposed to be workers that they could not find in the U.S. that had these really ultra special talents,” Van Duyne adds, noting that some American businesses take advantage of the loophole by “firing American workers” and replacing them with foreign workers who they pay “substantially less in wages.”

Reform is a top priority for Van Duyne and other Texas Republicans in the House.

“One of the bills that we’re going to be introducing next week is actually increasing the fines, because right now it’s a slap on the wrist,” she says, explaining how the current penalties are so small that after the payouts these operations pull in, getting caught is still “well worth it.”

“So we’re looking at increasing the fines to $100,000, and if you are laying off American workers, you’re going to be further investigated if you are applying for these H-1B visas — and that we’re looking at doubling that, so $250,000 for that,” Van Duyne continues.

Sara loves this proposition. “Hit him in the pocketbook. Make it hurt, because they have no problem doing that to the American worker that they’re undercutting and displacing,” she says. “Wow. I really hope that you guys get that across the finish line.”

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Mistakes were made, but no university employee operated in “bad faith.”

So says the external review that Utah Valley University released on Friday, recounting what happened before, during, and after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed there on September 10, 2025.

‘September 10 will always be part of UVU’s history, but it will not define our future.’

The report is nearly 160 pages and determined that:

at no time during the events leading up to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, or in its aftermath, did any employee or agent of UVU act in bad faith or in willful and wanton disregard for the safety of others.

Though the report does not name the suspected murderer, Tyler Robinson, it does note that “the alleged perpetrator was unaffiliated with UVU.”

Still, the report admits that “implementation” of UVU policies and protocols was “inconsistent.”

The report repeatedly asserts that holding the event at the outdoor Fountain Courtyard was Turning Point USA’s idea, as was allowing TPUSA to use “its own ticketing system.” The report suggests that UVU should have maintained its authority over venue, ticketing, and access.

“Those decisions placed the event in an area that was more difficult to control and limited UVU’s ability to obtain reliable, real-time information regarding anticipated attendance and crowd size,” the report said.

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The report acknowledged that preplanning “did not include a documented line-of-sight assessment” or a “structured walk-through with all key security stakeholders.” While a “face-to-face meeting” between UVU Police Chief Jeff Long and TPUSA’s private security team had been arranged for 11 a.m., less than 90 minutes before Kirk was shot, that meeting “did not occur.”

A notice of claim letter from attorneys for the Kirk family, obtained by Fox News and sent to UVU, Chief Long, the State of Utah, and others earlier this month claimed that Chief Long had requested approval from then-UVU President Astrid Tuminez for more security, “but his request was denied.”

Immediately after the shooting, an Emergency Operations Center was “opened,” the report said, but “confusion” soon ensued. Personnel, for instance, did not know “who was responsible for managing the EOC at various points, who had authority to issue prompt emergency alerts … and what terminology should be used.”

Moreover, 19 minutes after Kirk had been shot, an alert was sent to the UVU campus community, advising that a suspect was in custody. However, “subsequent investigation revealed that the individual initially detained was not the shooter and that the actual assailant remained unidentified and at large,” the report said.

For future high-profile events likely to draw heavy protests, the university should implement a more structured planning process that considers venue, anticipated attendance, private security involvement, and “elevated vantage points.”

The UVU Police Department did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News. UVU declined to comment.

UVU President Jon Anderson said of the report, “September 10 will always be part of UVU’s history, but it will not define our future. Our responsibility is to care for our community, learn from the findings of this review, and follow through on its recommendations. This requires humility, an honest examination of our policies and practices, and a commitment to act on what we learn.”

This is a developing story.

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