The Freedom of Information Act request asked for all writings by Hale, to include a manifesto, recovered by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) relating to the March 27 mass shooting On Friday, the National Police Association (NPA) announced the filing of an amended and supplemental complaint in conjunction with its Tennessee investigator Clata Renee Brewer, against the governments of Nashville and Davidson County for their new refusal to act on a request for records. No details of the manifesto have been released, and a motive for the shooting remains unclear. On April 27, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee reassured the public in a tweet that Nashville authorities would be releasing Hale's writings and documents. 'If there was some plan to release some information … why isn't that information being released?,' Harris said. The MNPD Police, who sought their legal counsel blamed the recent litigation for the change, according to The New York Post.Īttorney John Harris, who is representing former Tennessee Sheriff James Hammond and the Tennessee Firearms Association in the lawsuit told the news outlet it was 'an interesting turn of events.' That pause came just days after the MNPD and the Tennessee Governor announced that Hale's writings would be released for public consumption. The Metro Nashville Police Department officials claimed the release had been paused because their attorneys told them to hold off from any release while the suit was making its way through the courts. The Tennessee Firearms Association also filed an administrative appeal for the materials, The USA Today Network reported.Įd Hutchinson (pictured) head of The National Police Association filed a lawsuit to make the writings and other materials of Nashville mass shooter Audrey Hale public They subsequently issued an amended complaint on Friday blasting the 'absurd' decision to withhold the manifesto once more because of pending litigation.Ĭalls for its release has grown in the last few weeks that saw another mass shooting in the nation- 192 mass shootings so far, this year and 647 mass shootings in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, as per The New York Times. Hale's manifesto has remained shrouded in secrecy since the March 27 massacre at Covenant Christian Academy that killed three children and three school workers, with the gunwoman also shot dead by cops.īut on April 28, NPA Head Ed Hutchinson and Tennessee investigator Clata Renee Brewer filed the suit with Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. The National Police Association has filed a lawsuit in a bid to make trans Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale's manifesto public.

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