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We learned yesterday that Audrey Hale, the Nashville shooter, left being a manifesto of some kind. Today, police released surveillance video of Hale’s entry into the school and bodycam video of police making their way inside and eventually shooting her dead. But the manifesto hasn’t been seen by anyone outside of the police. Today the Daily Caller asked if it would be released and got a firm no.
“No, we will not be releasing the manifesto during an open investigation,” the spokesperson told the DCNF.
The police spokesperson did not say for certain whether or not the manifesto would be released in the future after the investigation was closed and restated that due to the ongoing nature of the situation, there was no intention by law enforcement to release the documents.
That explanation doesn’t make much sense to me. The shooter is dead so I’m not sure what the investigation is even about at this point except reaching conclusions about the truth of what happened. I guess it’s possible police could choose to charge the parents in some way but Hale was 28 so they weren’t legally responsible for her behavior.
In any case, releasing the manifesto doesn’t seem like it would be any more detrimental to the investigation than releasing the surveillance and body cam video. At this point, the fact are what they are, including the shooter’s motive.
But curiously, all of the gay rights groups Newsweek contacted about releasing the manifesto agree it should definitely not be released.
“It should not be published,” Jordan Budd, the executive director of Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE), told Newsweek.
