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 to disclosures and public access.
The Tennessee Public Records Act governs records created by any governmental entity of Tennessee, including the police department. The law 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 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 flout the law and withhold information from the press and the public.
He said “flaunt” the law? Yes we know that he knows the difference between “flaunt” and “flout.” But the error just confirms again that JT , despite his pretense of scholarly wisdom and sobriety, is mostly interested in hitting the very 10 seconds news cycle. That’s why he so often negligently flouts the simplest norms of grammar as well as those of vocabulary (or does he just like to flaunt his love of dangling modifiers?).
Off with his head! His poor grammar (or sloppy proofreading) has exposed the charlatan.
As someone who proofreads his own briefs and regularly only finds the errors after the brief is filed, I find professor Turley’s typos endearing.
its the copy and paste left wing insults (but I repeat myself) that are boring and uncreative.
Not sure that using flaunt for flout is a grammatical mistake . . . .
It sure seems that way to me, but here’s an authority somewhat to the contrary:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-wrong-to-confuse-flaunt-and-flout
However, what is clearly “dangerous” is for officials to flaunt the law and withhold information from the press and the public.
“Clearly dangerous?” Since when? This is not some one off. This is the default position for government. Control the narrative. If information is released in a controlled manner, it will always reflect positively on the administration. If it comes out uncontrolled (leaked), then they call in the clean up crew to try to get the narrative back. Either way, in the Leftist world, no harm will come from being forced by the courts to follow the law.
I don’t really want to hear what a mass shooter has or had to say, whether it is this dead guy’s manifesto or that Kyle Rittenhouse guy who keeps showing up to speak at places.
I would be interested to know of the writings to give insight into her mentally and mental illness.
I have asked this in the past, why are so many American’s so depressed? Is it our/their environment? Food? Family ties? Genetic?
Excellent observation. There is so much “artificial” ingredients in our food, clothing, cosmetics and cleaning products that who knows what effects it can have over time on our brain functions.
It’’s odd the national police association is demanding the release of the manifesto when they have no problem withholding damning video of police shootings for years. What is THEIR interest in the manifesto? They don’t demand videos of controversial police shootings be released, why so much interest on this manifesto? Their involvement in demanding the release is suspicious itself.
As Turley noted there may be a legitimate reason to withhold it. It’s no mystery that there are many conservatives and christian zealots chomping at the bit to get their hands on it. They will no doubt use it to further demonize and denigrate the LGBTQ community and use it to sow even more animosity towards them. It’s what they want. State legislators are already passing record numbers of anti-LGBTQ laws to gain political points with their easily spooked and paranoid voters.
There may be a legitimate reason for keeping it from the public just as there are legitimate reasons why police keep videos of incidents involving them. They can trigger more rage and anger, especially among religious conservatives who ready for any excuse to demagogue the trans community. They are salivating at the chance to use it against that community, it’s quite noticeable.
What if Aubrey called for all trans to arm themselves and seek revenge on those who are actively demonizing them? Will that spur copycats? Keep in mind that this a very vulnerable community already suffering a serious problem with suicide because conservative and christian zealots are constantly attacking them. If they have no will to live what’s to stop those from following in her footsteps? She may have explained a bunch of loopholes that can be exploited for even easier access to firearms? Who knows, what it clear is that the only people interested in the manifesto are conservatives and christian nut jobs and zealots who want to use it to further demonize the trans community and propose more laws against them. It would be prudent for the Tennessee police to let things “cool down” before releasing it. That would be a more sensible approach on the issue. After all they do this with police videos involving police all the time.
This manifesto can also expose the problem of Christians being a big part of the problem since they are the ones who are constantly demonizing them for who they are. Aubrey may have posed a very important question that police know may cause a serious backlash against Christians and further escalate these “culture wars”. We already have a bunch of nut job legislators who are perfectly ok with more denigration and demagoguing. We saw how a Montana legislator openly ok with letting her daughter commit suicide than let her transition. Such is the danger of religious zealotry.
Svelaz, state legislation has focused on two aspects of transgender ideology as applied to minors:
1. Limiting medical interventions such as puberty blockers, sex hormones and surgery; and
2. Limiting social transition in public schools without the consent of the parents.
These are consistent with recent trends in several European countries, which increasingly view social transition of minors as an active intervention (as recognised by the Cass Review in the U.K.) and the medical interventions on minors as unsupported by evidence and experimental in nature.
There is nothing particularly right wing or Christian about these measures. They are appropriate reactions to the displacement of sound evidence-based medicine by ideology in this country, including in many of the leading public health authorities and medical associations. In time, I suspect this movement will be seen in the same way we now view lobotomies and “recovered memory”, but it will be seen as considerably more damaging because of the impact on children.
It should be recognized as criminal behavior and medical malpractice.
Agreed. A lot is being said and written about the unknown ramifications and dangers inherent when gender modification procedures on minors are undertaken before they have progressed through puberty and prior to physical maturity. Everyone ought to appreciate the reality of gender dysphoria and the acute hardships some kids suffer because of it. But also to be appreciated is that it is treatable and when successful, as it mostly is, those kids go on to live fulfilling lives wholly content with their born sex.
I hope we soon come to understand that gender dysphoria is not a condition that should be used to argue for gender modification procedures on minors. And certainly real gender dysphoria should never be used to cause impressionable children who do not in fact suffer it to think they do. Parents should be mindful that feelings and sentiments kids pick up via social contagion through their associations with others can be and often are harmful. Diagnose affectable children carefully and have them professionally evaluated and counseled before allowing them to alter their biology.
Ron A. Hoffman,
Well said and I would say that is the majority opinion of most normal people.
“Agreed. A lot is being said and written about the unknown ramifications and dangers inherent when gender modification procedures on minors are undertaken before they have progressed through puberty and prior to physical maturity.”
The only people mentioning these ramifications are those who least understand it. Those who oppose the very idea that it’s real. These are the same people who claimed homosexuality was a mental illness. They just latched on to another issue to support their ignorance.
“And certainly real gender dysphoria should never be used to cause impressionable children who do not in fact suffer it to think they do. Parents should be mindful that feelings and sentiments kids pick up via social contagion through their associations with others can be and often are harmful.”
This sentiment is no different than the one used when homosexuality was “diagnosed” as a disorder. Kids are not being “groomed” or “encouraged” to accept those notions. Ironically as you said Ron, “Diagnose affectable children carefully and have them professionally evaluated and counseled before allowing them to alter their biology.”
Which is exactly what republican legislators in many republican dominated states are creating laws AGAINST. They are literally banning that practical and necessary medial diagnosis by those who are more knowledgable about gender dysphoria than those who oppose the idea. It’s those legislators who are insisting in butting into parent’s medical decisions and best choices that they think for THEIR children. As a classical liberal YOU should be opposed to that kind of government intrusion, would you not? That is not what “small government” is according to classical liberals and libertarians. No?
Be very careful permanently altering the biological sex of children you care about. It is for your and their sake and not for any political purposes I offer that admonition. Be damn certain that what you are told by any medical practitioners who offer and promote puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and irreversible surgical procedures as a means to address gender dysphoria. In order to be so certain, ask for the clinical trials that provided the evidence for the degree of safety essential for your peace of mind. Also, seek the counsel of others in the medical professions who differ about even the need for such body altering procedures let alone have good and sound medical concerns for unknown long term effects.
Ron A. Hoffman,
Good point.
Just read an article of a women claiming her child is transgender based off the fact he likes raw green beans.
Yes, you read right, raw green beans.
Here is a common sense fact, most children like veggies on the raw or at least el dante chew side. My daughter did. I still do. Yet this woman is claiming her child is trans for it.
Common sense? Logic? No where to be found.
Daniel, there is no “transgender ideology”. That term is purely manufactured by the right for your gullible consumption.
“1. Limiting medical interventions such as puberty blockers, sex hormones and surgery; and”
You mean allowing big government intrusion into the personal decisions between parents, children and their doctors. Whatever happened to parental rights and that only parents get to decide what is best for their children? It seems that the whole parental rights thing is BS, no?
“2. Limiting social transition in public schools without the consent of the parents.”
Who is to say they cannot decide for themselves or that parents are not aware? Why would it be the schools’s business to tell parents something students don’t want to reveal yet? When schools snitch on students, students will not talk as a result. That’s not a good idea if you want students to learn about what trust is. Right? This is no different than gay students who faced abuse and beatings if parents found out. There is a reason why they “remained in the closet” back in the day. Students do have an expectation of privacy when it comes to what they think or believe if they choose to confide them to a school counselor, no? What’s the point of having a school counselor if they are can’t be trusted to expose a student’s beliefs? Just because they are children the are not afforded any confidentiality? Counselors outside of school don’t expose students because they think they should. It’s antithetical to the profession.
“These are consistent with recent trends in several European countries, which increasingly view social transition of minors as an active intervention (as recognised by the Cass Review in the U.K.) and the medical interventions on minors as unsupported by evidence and experimental in nature.”
Which you don’t mention because it’s likely the “study” is merely BS useful for those who oppose the idea.
“There is nothing particularly right wing or Christian about these measures. They are appropriate reactions to the displacement of sound evidence-based medicine by ideology in this country, including in many of the leading public health authorities and medical associations.”
These ideas ARE borne out of right wing and Christian beliefs. These “reactions’ are only appropriate because it’s part of their ideology that everyone should be conforming to what they think is normal. You don’t cite these “leading public health authorities and medical associations because they are not saying that. Name them and we can see exactly how “leading” they are. This is no different than the now debunked “conversion therapy” BS these “leading medial authorities were promoting when homosexuality was considered a ‘mental illness’.
Your blanket villification of “Christians” is a clear indication of you intent in your post. Coupled with you assetion the Police withhold video of shooting (which is blatantly false) makes this response to a serious op ed piece completely unserious.
MRR,
I watched the body cam of one of the NPD officers.
Heroic men in action.
MRR, the police didn’t withhold the video of the shooting. What are you talking about? Everyone has seen it.
“They will no doubt use it to further demonize and denigrate the LGBTQ community”
What specific data do you think can be used to demonize and denigrate? You probably think more like her, so let us hear your vision.
“State legislators are already passing record numbers of anti-LGBTQ laws “
List the anti-LGBTQ laws.
“They can trigger more rage”
That is why you know very little. You don’t learn from experience.
“already suffering a serious problem with suicide because conservative and christian zealots are constantly attacking them.”
No. The left is busy pumping drugs into children, which might be a cause of the mass shootings and suicides. The trans community contains many unstable people made more so by your type of craziness.
The trans community is mentally unstable because…the entire concept of transgenderism is a mentally unstable situation at best and those held in its thrall should be assessed as potentially dangerous and out of touch with reality just to begin with. Their situation needs mental health intervention, not political and legal intervention to shelter them from the realities of their misunderstanding of their mental disorientation. They are a tiny fraction of society but the prog/left is using them as a major tool in their desire to undermine and eventually dismantle western civilization. Pity and compassion for their mental ilness is how we should proceed while keeping the majority of citizens safe from these very vulnerable, distressed and easily manipulated individuals safe and cared for.
“Pity and compassion for their mental ilness is how we should proceed while keeping the majority of citizens safe from these very vulnerable, distressed and easily manipulated individuals safe and cared for.”
Pity and compassion is NOT what they are getting, that’s the whole point. Republican legislators are NOT showing them that. They are actively denigrating them, ostracizing, mocking, and creating laws that say. “You are not welcome and you are not normal” THEY are the ones who are not feeling safe. THEY are the ones who are feeling vulnerable because conservatives are attacking the very idea of who they are. Conservatives are the ones who are demonizing them and those who are helping them thru their issues.
They are not “mentally unstable”. They are being labeled as such by those who want to demonize them for who they are or may be. This is no different than those who claimed homosexuality is a mental illness. It’s the never ending stream of ignorance borne out of religious upbringing and animosity towards anything that THEY deem to be normal. That is the problem.
They are being abused by the lgbt for their profit potential. No one gave 2 craps about trannys 10 years ago, before gay marriage was most of the law of the land.
They are the current, in a long line of, victims for profit, whcih started with the holocaust victims and has proceeded to this day with the trannies.
Amazingly, you’ll see plenty of similar surnames and their preferred politcos benefiting…
If those records are “unnerving” and dangerous, they point to far more than one individual’s mental problems. The question is, Dangerous to whom? The only reason the authorities would refuse to release them is if they pointed to a conspiracy to commit more crimes.
IF the shooter owned and used all 5 laptops and 20 Journals simultaneously (especially if they are large and packed with writings) as well as most of the other material seized, then the 1st thing I would think of is a person who might be seriously bi-polar and might have been in a manic phase. If I remember she was supposedly under medical care for an “emotional disorder”. Some, despite good control, will slip into a severe depression over as short as a weekend and commit suicide and it was obvious this person had no plans to survive this event. Some will be manic and will do prodigious amounts of activity and writing and may go days without sleeping as their mania grabs total control. I had one patient who was brought in to a clinic situation and would not talk. The reason he would not talk was that once started he could not stop and was in a severe manic phase and would talk, only stopping to breathe, for hours to days. Some people grew so fearful of their manic phases that the simple threat of a manic phase starting would make them suicidal. Just a distant opinion. There are also other causes like a psychosis and such. Unknown until they look at her medical records. Occasionally people are misdiagnosed and are far more ill than the doctor thinks. Diagnosis in psychiatry evolve over time with multiple observations usually necessary.
This was obviously more than just an “emotional disorder.”
Thanks GEB, that was interesting.
Still . . . if someone is going to end their life and feels like committing mass murder as a way to do so, I wish they would do the suicide part first, saving the homicide part till later. Is there some reason they have to do the homicide part first?
“Is there some reason they have to do the homicide part first?”
Being constantly bullied, demonized, ostracized, attacked, etc. Being bullied by religious zealots and politicians enabling it seems to be a good reason why she would choose that path. Being powerless to do anything about it and finding out how much of a “message” one can send with the knowledge that it’s easy to get a powerful weapon it’s not hard to figure out why. People who are constantly bullied WILL lash out. That people don’t get that is what should be surprising, especially those doing the bullying and demonizing. They are also part of the problem.
Being constantly bullied, demonized, ostracized, attacked
Assumes facts not in evidence.
There’s plenty of evidence. Your ignorance is no excuse.
“Being constantly bullied . . .”
I have become numb to the Left excusing the bad behavior of its chosen ones — until now:
Sympathy for the murderer of innocent children is beneath contempt.
Sam, that feeling is not numbness, that’s what ignorance looks like.
GEB,
Thank you for your professional opinion and insight.
The manifesto is being buried, as many feared it would be. Its release could damage transgenderism, reveal the influence of pharmaceuticals and detract from the gun control narrative. Were “white supremacy” at issue as a possible cause, all these materials would have been released long ago. Where are the Republican leaders In Tennessee?
Daniel, we see the left trying to bury information everywhere. There is only one reason for that. They are lying and wish to keep their lies from the public. That is a sign of a despotic regime.
You are spot on here and earlier.
S. Meyer, they are not trying to bury anything. Your own ignorance is your biggest obstacle to understanding why there is a reason to withhold it for now. Think man, think. Do you need to stop breathing in order to think hard?
“they are not trying to bury anything.”
The manifesto isn’t being released, Why? They are trying to bury things.
The videos of J6 weren’t all released. Why? They are trying to bury evidence against leftist talking points. Chansley was released because a video showed the government was wrong.
Why was much of the J6 held secret and why did they use videos of testimony? They wanted to bury evidence.
You make stupid statements. Fortunately you don’t mind looking like a fool.
One of the threads in common with all growing amount of Wackos is most if not all were shot up with massive amounts of so called Vaccines! And one of the reactions in many is it shorts out the body’s electrical system.
I think every shooter since at least Columbine was on Pfizer Prozac type SSRI dope.
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The data from the mRNA Clot & Death Jab has been hard to nail down exactly yet govts can’t hide all of it.
A very, very conservative number so far of mRNA deaths in 2022, in the US was well over 300,000, 1.36 million disabled & 26.6 million injured. Gee, wonder why there’s a shortage in the US’s work force? Wonder no more.
Mass murderers seem to prefer syringes over clubs,knives, guns & even war. Bill Gates, Dr Fauci, King Chucky, Klaus Shwab, etc., all need to be taking their CV19 boosters once a day until their shots work as promised. I think.
Oky, riiiiiight it was the vaccines that cause the shooting. Jesus the nut jobs are really out in force today.
The strength of the LGBQ/Trans political movement is stronger than I thought. Apparently strong enough to get the Nashville Police Department to avoid complying with Tennessee state disclosure laws to fend off some negative publicity for the movement. Why haven’t we heard from the Davidson County District Attorney or the State Attorney General ? Is all law enforcement in Tennessee MIA ? Thank you, Jonathn, for an excellent article.
“However, what is clearly ‘dangerous’ is for officials to [flout] the law and withhold information from the press and the public.”
I’m sure they’ll release the information — right after they release the withheld evidence concerning the JFK assassination.
“[T]he authorities consider the manifesto to be ‘astronomically dangerous.’”
“authorities” = Leftists pushing propaganda
“astronomically dangerous” = to their Leftist propaganda
So here’s the Left’s grotesque inversion: Criminalize politics; politicize law enforcement.
I’m pretty sure we all know what ia in these manifesto documants, which is exactly why they are being kept from us. Only if this had been a white male christian with an NRA card.
“… the authorities consider the manifesto to be “astronomically dangerous.” ,,,”
Hale, 28 – figured ‘it’ out. Another “Manifesto” ‘manifest’s-the-destiny’ of its Creator.
Like Ted Kaczynski a.k.a.: The Unabomber.
Only a matter of time before AI (Artifical Intellegance ~ e.g.: ChatGPT) turn upon Us.
It already tried to get Jonathan Turley.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/06/defamed-by-chatgpt-my-own-bizarre-experience-with-artificiality-of-artificial-intelligence/
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Yes, the Kaczynski case occurred to me, too. At the time, it was unusual that the government would allow such a screed to be published, since it was thought to be undeserved publicity for the ravings of a criminal/madman. But after years of investigation, the FBI thought it could be the best way to identify the Unabomber. And it was successful.
There was a front-page story a couple of decades ago about a guy who was arrested for possession of child pornography. He was someone I’d known from work and I remembered when he bought a certain property in a mountainous, wooded area. Some hikers were trespassing and stumbled onto a half-buried trunk full of child pornography on his property. They reported it to law enforcement and he was charged in federal court. So should all the evidence have been posted on the internet upon request since it was on papers in possession of the government?
I have no interest in Hale’s nekkid pictures whether there’s any in the manifesto or not, whether she was of age or not. But the rest…publish it.
As much material as Turley posts each day, I’m surprised there aren’t more typos!
He probably has an intern or paralegal who writes these posts for him.
In this situation delay is an end in itself. If the manifesto is embarrassing to the Left, even if it can’t ultimately be hidden the damage will be reduced if its release occurs long after the incident.
As others have pointed out, the government-media complex pushed a blame-the-victim narrative in the wake of the shooting. That narrative attacked the Left’s bogeymen and shielded its friends. I suspect that would have been far more difficult had the manifesto been publicly released during that timeframe.
However, what is clearly “dangerous” is for officials to flaunt the law and withhold information from the press and the public.
Flaunt means to display something ostentatiously. Perhaps you meant flout (meaning openly disregard)?
Over 5 years, we have had 4 people claiming to be ‘trans’, commit mass shootings. That’s just the ones we know about. The government’s propensity to cover up facts, and create alternate truths, the real number is hard to know.
The manifesto, most likely documents the sources of all the idiocy, pushed by the govt, that is fueling this mental illness. These frail minds have to be fed this information. It is not natural, and can only spread by artificially.
@iowan2,
The FBI definition of a mass shooting is one where 4 or more victims are shot (wounded or killed) in a single incident.
The left have attempted to game the system and numbers when they calculate or talk about mass shootings.
If we stick w the FBI definition… using the available data… the most common weapon is a pistol.
Last year, there were 23+ mass shootings in Chicago alone. Care to guess how many involve a white male or a trans using an AR-15?
(None)
I suspect that the manifesto is filled w hyperbolic slogans and a distorted view. Some have also indicated that it outlines the weaknesses we have around schools or other public buildings. That ‘gun free zones’ actually make us less secure.
-G
Ian,
Reportedly, she dismissed two other schools as being to “hard” to infiltrate and went after the “softer” target.
The grammar police are out in force.
Just enjoy Turley and don’t flaunt your nitpicking skills.
Thank you!
monument – Turley has often thanked commenters for their corrections, and encouraged them to continue to proof-read his articles.
“Turley has often thanked commenters for their corrections, and encouraged them to continue to proof-read his articles.”
In the South, Ladies of breeding are often heard saying, “isn’t that special”. It something they are taught. It replaces what they really want to say. Like, ‘that’s bullshyte’
Iowan2: Bless your heart!
We also use the phrase “Bless His Heart!” or when the person being talked of is addressed by the phrase of ” Well, Bless his sweet Heart!” noting a particularly stupid or inane comment by someone.
So often when I see some of the comments posted here I harken back to something that great American, Lewis Gizzard, once wrote:
“I know lots of people that are educated far beyond their intelligence.”.
Or: Bless you heart.
“… what is clearly “dangerous” is for officials to flaunt the law and withhold information from the press and the public.”
Yes, especially since it was yet another attack on a religious group (Christians) and school children; the murderer was a trans person; AND the Biden Administration immediately shifted into a “trans people are under attack” mode. In doing so, the Biden Administration ignored the victims and appeared to be defending the attacker.
It’s “flout” not “flaunt”. Who wrote this?
It identifies as flaunt, you bigot.
The police soon acknowledged that they has a manifesto from Hale
“have”
I has no reason to flaunt the law.