Parents of students at Covenant School have expressed outrage over the leaked writings, suspecting a member of the Metro Nashville Police Department is responsible for the leak.
The city of Nashville is investigating the unauthorized release of writings allegedly belonging to the Covenant School shooter.
The Metro Nashville Police Department has confirmed that the leaked images were not from their crime scene.
The writings have been the subject of an ongoing court case, with right-wing activists and media figures pushing for their public release.
The city of Nashville, Tennessee, is currently investigating the unauthorized release of writings allegedly belonging to the shooter involved in the Covenant School shooting incident. The leaked documents, which include three pages from a notebook, were posted on social media by conservative talk show host Steven Crowder. The Metro Nashville Police Department has confirmed that the images were not from their crime scene and are working with the city's legal department in the investigation. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation declined to confirm the authenticity of the images.
Parents of students at Covenant School have expressed outrage over the leaked writings. They believe a member of the Metro Nashville Police Department is responsible for the leak. Brent Leatherwood, a parent at the school, spoke on behalf of the families. The writings have been the subject of an ongoing court case, with right-wing activists and media figures pushing for their public release. The leak has been criticized for causing additional emotional trauma to the families of the victims of the school shooting.
The shooter left behind at least 20 journals, a suicide note, and a memoir. A coalition sued for the records after the Metro Nashville Police Department declined their request earlier this year. The investigation into the leak is ongoing.
The writings have been the subject of an ongoing court case, with right-wing activists and media figures pushing for their public release.
The leak has been criticized for causing additional emotional trauma to the families of the victims of the school shooting.
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“There was never a good reason to keep that monster's manifesto under lock, which is why I called for its release months ago,” said House Republican Caucus Chairman Jeremy Faison in a tweet Monday morning. “After reading this morning, I’m questioning even more why the anti-white racism & anti-Christian bigotry of Audrey Hale was covered up.”
Three pages of writings by deceased Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale have been published by right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder, leading Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell to call for a Metro investigation of the leak.
The Metro Nashville Police Department confirmed that the images were not from their crime scene and are working with the city's legal department in the investigation.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation declined to confirm the authenticity of the images.
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The Covenant case is further complicated by the fact that Hale, who was assigned female at birth, seems to have begun identifying as a transgender man – prompting right-wing commentators, politicians and other figures to share false claims of a rise in transgender mass shooters and to suggest that the fight for trans rights is radicalizing people.