Posted on 05/05/2023 5:59:41 AM PDT by george76
In March, Audrey Hale shocked the nation by opening fire at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. The police soon acknowledged that they had a manifesto from Hale on why she took this inexplicable and horrific action. We all then waited for the release of the manifesto. We are still waiting.
It is not uncommon for there to be a delay in the release of information in a major crime pending investigation. What was weird is that the police quickly confirmed that Hale acted alone and Hale was dead. There is no prosecution that will occur in the case. Yet, it is May and the authorities are still refusing to release the manifesto . . . and they will not fully explain why. Now, the National Police Association and other groups are suing to make the writings and other materials of mass shooter Audrey Hale public.
There were twenty journals, five laptops, a suicide note, yearbooks, cellphones and various notes written by Hale, 28, that were seized from the house she shared with her parents. There have been press reports that the authorities consider the manifesto to be “astronomically dangerous.”
They may be unsettling and even dangerous, but the question is the right of the authorities to keep such evidence from the public and the press. The government can always declare information to be too “dangerous” to release for a variety of reasons. However, we have a system that defaults on disclosures and public access.
The Tennessee Public Records Act governs records created by any governmental entity of Tennessee, including the police department. Under that law, a public record covers all records “regardless of physical form or characteristic, made or received pursuant to law or ordinance or in connection with the transaction of official business by any governmental entity.” Note the verb “received.” That would include this evidence. Furthermore, “made” would include emails addressing why authorities decided to withhold the documents.
If these are public records they must be “be open for personal inspection by any citizen of this state,” and custodians cannot refuse access “unless otherwise provided by state law.”
There is an exception under Rule 16(a)(2) of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure for ongoing investigations or prosecutions, but this case is clearly not active in the sense of any additional charges. Hale is dead. The law does not contemplate that the government can simply declare that a case is forever pending as a way to avoid disclosures.
I do not know what is in the manifesto or why it is so unnerving for authorities. However, what is clearly “dangerous” is for officials to flaunt the law and withhold information from the press and the public.
She went to the Christian school, to kill the seed of what reminded her, that she was a female - a woman - contrary to the fantasy she learned in higher academia.
Why don’t the “Americans have the right to know” about what this tranny creep was up to? I’ll bet we would already have that manifesto if the murderer had been a Republican that voted for Trump.
Maybe if Professor Turley voted Republican for a change he wouldn’t have to write articles like this ...
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She named names in her manifesto - that is the ONLY reason I can see they are doing this. The woman was either acting on orders or acting in concert with some alphabet agency.
And now the police are using the lawsuit as another excuse to keep from releasing the documents of the trans-crazy. They say with “litigation pending” they will have to wait for the judge to decide.
The primary lesson I gather from this and other events in recent years is to NEVER let the feds get involved in an investigation. They serve only to cover up misdeeds of the hard left, while seeking to destroy anybody that questions their motives.
They have successfully stolen elections, hidden Epstein’s transgressions, framed J6 protestors, covered up Hunter’s laptop, raided Mar-a-Lago, and covered up a ton of events including this tranny shooting escapade, along with the Las Vegas shooting and other events.
Local PD may or may not be better, but we know that the feds are on the side of entities that do not include the people of the US.
Oh, it’ll be released..it’ll go something like this:
Dear (redacted)
(all content redacted)
signed
audrey hale
The Deep State is running the show. Everything the Deep State does is “managed” to promote the narrative and goals of the Deep State. They care little about America and Americans except as the source of wealth they can loot for their own purposes.
What are they hiding? You can bet your last dollar that her manifesto doesn’t fit the mantra of the Pretorian Guard Media.
What are they hiding?
**************
Information that allows the public to see some inconvenient facts.
Notwithstanding various disclosure laws, governments only tell us what they want us to know.
Seems a bit hyperbolic. It also begs the question: "dangerous" to whom?
She didn’t appear to be a tactical genius and only got 6 people after months of planning and being familiar with the interior of the building. The manifesto has to be “astronomically dangerous.” for another reason.
THIS!!!!!
Makes me wonder if we’re going to have a parade of lawsuits, one after the other, to keep the info hidden forever.
SOMEONE is instructing them not to release it. Who has that power?
I think that what they are hiding is that the woman was on prescription medicine that made her mentally unstable.
Freedom of Speech has become “Astronomically Dangerous”?
I don’t think so. If the Manifesto is “Astronomically Dangerous” it contains information implicating organizations, whose exposure could lead to ‘prosecutions’ or ‘riots’.
I wonder what ‘Organizations’ are involved....are any of them tax payer funded?
Quite possibly there is evidence that she was instructed/coerced/bullied by some celebrity (I use that term loosely) to do this. This will be withheld just like Epstein’s client list — might be same people.
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