A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> court ruled on Thursday that a group of parents can intervene in the legal fight to block the release of the manifesto of the transgender-identifying woman who murdered six people at a Christian school in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nashville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nashville</a> earlier this year. 
The Tennessee Court of Appeals said that the Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, and parents at the school had standing to intervene in efforts to block the manifesto’s release, but did not rule on whether to block the release of the shooter’s writings.
“In this appeal, the only issues properly before this Court concern the trial court’s grant of intervention to Intervenors — any issues concerning the disclosure of the sought records had not yet been adjudicated at the time this appeal was filed and are not before this Court,” Judge Thomas Frierson <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/73/2023/11/Covenant-Parents-Intervention-Ruling.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
The church, school, and some parents of kids at the school have <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/appeals-court-panel-rules-in-favor-of-covenant-parents-in-manifesto-lawsuit/?email=84885943124850418dccfffa5f984fb2b1450cf1&amp;emaila=6cb861e5998d3d6a1ce8452947dee058&amp;emailb=78504d1586e2066c8a05f4b619c2e64c552dbc337ec8d9ba2cb59caa7c91ecac&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Curated%20Morning%20Headlines%202023-12-01&amp;utm_content=morning%20headlines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that the shooter’s writings should remain sealed for security and privacy purposes. 
The ruling is the latest update in the legal battle over the manifesto of the 28-year-old woman who went on a rampage inside The Covenant School, a Presbyterian-affiliated pre-K-6 school, where she killed six people on March 28, 2023. The victims of the attack included three 9-year-olds — Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9; Hallie Scruggs, 9; William Kinney, 9 — and three staff members — headmaster Katherine Koonce, 60; Cynthia Peak, 61; and Mike Hill, 61.
The Metropolitan Police Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation denied <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-police-deny-daily-wires-request-for-trans-shooters-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open records</a> requests from The Daily Wire, the Tennessee Star, and other outlets, citing that it was an ongoing investigation — even though the shooter was killed by police during the attack. 
Michael Patrick Leahy, the CEO of Star News Digital Media, <a href="https://tennesseestar.com/justice/tennessee-appeals-court-rules-covenant-parents-may-intervene-in-lawsuit-seeking-audrey-hale-manifesto/tpappert/2023/11/30/?ref=pamphleteer.co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the Tennessee Star may consider an appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
“The Chancery Court ruling to allow the intervention was a clear violation of Tennessee statutes, as was today’s ruling by the Court of Appeals. We are evaluating our options, which may include directly appealing this faulty decision to the Tennessee Supreme Court,” he said in a statement. 
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Portions of the manifesto <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-shooter-decried-crackers-and-white-privilege-leaked-manifesto-pages-reveal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked last month</a> showing the killer claiming the kids at the school had “white privilege” and calling them “crackers.” 
“Kill those kids!!! Those crackers going to private fancy schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertables [sic],” she wrote in her diary. 
“I wish to shoot you weakass d***s w/ your mop yellow hair, wanna kill all you little crackers! Bunch of little f*****s w/ your white privileges,” she wrote.
Three photographs of the pages of the shooter’s diary were obtained by commentator Steven Crowder, who reported that his investigative team independently confirmed the authenticity of the images. The Daily Wire’s sources have also confirmed the authenticity of the pages.
The case now heads back to the the Chancery Court for Davidson County in Nashville.

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Singer Tiffany Darwish said she&#8217;s &#8220;never looked back&#8221; at her decision to leave California for a home in Tennessee nearly twenty years ago, saying that the move gave her the freedom to &#8220;just be&#8221; herself.
The 52-year-old singer, who was known to fans as simply &#8220;Tiffany,&#8221; spoke to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/80s-pop-star-tiffany-posing-playboy-leaving-california-tennessee-never-looked-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> about living outside the &#8220;big city&#8221; of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-is-not-america-why-so-many-celebrities-are-leaving-los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> and moving to a home in a &#8220;rural small town&#8221; outside of Nashville.
&#8220;I came to Nashville for the first time when I was 10,&#8221; Darwish said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been coming back ever since. I love being out in the country – I&#8217;m a country girl at heart.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve toured all over the world and this place has always been home for me,&#8221; she added. &#8220;There&#8217;s just something about coming home to my little ranch … I&#8217;ve never looked back. Big cities are everywhere, but it&#8217;s that slow pace of life that I&#8217;ve been wanting for a long time.&#8221;
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&#8220;Home is about six and a half acres of just greenery and trees on a private road,&#8221; the singer continued. &#8220;That suits me. I work really hard when I&#8217;m on the road, but when I come back, I love to plant flowers, read books and just regroup … There are times when I go to LA and say, &#8216;I love the beach, I miss this.&#8217; But give it three or four hours of traffic and that&#8217;s over.&#8221;
The singer-songwriter said that when she lived in California she was &#8220;miserable&#8221; and leaving the state helped her be more &#8220;grounded.&#8221;
&#8220;So I&#8217;ve been pursuing music from a very early age,&#8221; Darwish told the outlet. &#8220;My dream was to be in front of a band. But I didn&#8217;t know what touring meant, what it meant to film music videos and all of that.&#8221;
&#8220;And then, it just happened very quickly,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It was an adventure … But I think it&#8217;s also the reason why I sought to have a home life and turn off fame. I wanted to be grounded. I just wanted to be a person.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m always on the go, but it also felt really good to just have time off and be away from the city for a bit,&#8221; Tiffany continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m very family-oriented. I moved my sisters here from California. Slowly, I&#8217;ve been recruiting everybody to be here. And I can just be me here. I think I needed that.&#8221;
And when asked if she ever gets tired of singing one of her biggest hits, a cover of Tommy James &amp; the Shondells&#8217; &#8220;I Think We’re Alone Now&#8221; from 1987, she said no — because it &#8220;gives people joy.&#8221;
&#8220;People still jam out to it, and it gives people memories of good times,&#8221; the singer said. &#8220;I&#8217;m very grateful to have that song in my life.&#8221;

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Accusations of colonialism are used by leftists to smear &#8220;history’s victors,&#8221; or great men and civilizations, according to conservative commentator Michael Knowles.
Knowles, host of an eponymous podcast at The Daily Wire, delivered a speech in defense of colonists, colonialism, and settlements in a speech on Tuesday night at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The conservative Catholic host said that colonialism, seen as universally oppressive by leftists, has rid the world of some of the worst human rights abusers.
Knowles began his lecture with a modern and timely example, the modern state of Israel. The Israeli state, now at war with the terror group Hamas, dubbed “freedom fighters” and de-colonizers by some, was built largely through settlement and colonization during the early 20th century, Knowles said.
Defending Israel against charges of colonization is a bad strategy, he said, because every nation is open to accusations of colonialism if one looks back far enough in history. The anti-colonialist standard is one that no nation could survive if applied equally, according to Knowles. 
“All regimes in history have been established by settlers and colonizers of one kind or another. Not since Adam in the Garden of Eden have any people sprouted out of the ground, and Adam, you might recall, had a little bit of help in the process, as well,” Knowles said.
American history is full of colonialist endeavors, tracing as far back as the explorer Christopher Columbus’ voyages to the Americas. Knowles used the Black Hills of South Dakota as an example. The Black Hills is the site of Mount Rushmore and declared by the Supreme Court in 1980 to have been illegally taken by the U.S. from the Lakota Sioux tribe.
“The Lakota Sioux did not magically sprout out of the Black Hills of South Dakota. In fact, the Lakota Sioux only possessed the Black Hills for about 100 years – less time, in fact, than the United States has possessed it. The Lakota only acquired the Black Hills in 1776, and the way they acquired it was by moving in from Minnesota and conquering the Cheyenne. So, should the U.S. government pay a billion dollars to the Lakota because we took Lakota land? Or should we pay a billion dollars to the Cheyenne because the Lakota took Cheyenne land?” Knowles asked, pointing out the impractical and unrealistic expectations that come out of an extreme anti-colonialist mindset.
In many instances, acts of colonization and expansion conquered much worse cultures, such as the Aztec that used tens of thousands of people annually as human sacrifices. The best version of colonialism, Knowles said, is one that instilled Christian values.
“If there will be conquest, it seems preferable that such conquest be Christian rather than demonic; the kind of imperialism that builds Santa Croce rather than Tenochtitlan; the sort of conquest that teaches people to love their enemies rather than to rip their hearts out,” Knowles said.
“I sometimes tell critics of Christian nationalism that if they think Christian nationalism is bad, just wait until they see un-Christian nationalism. The same is true of settlement, colonialism, and conquest. If you believe that the Western kind of conquest is bad, just wait until you see all the other kinds,” he said.
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A man who identifies as a transgender woman has been charged in federal court and held in jail for threatening to shoot up schools and pledging to rape Christian girls in bathrooms — after local Illinois authorities released him with no bond.
Jason Lee Willie of Nashville, Illinois, who goes by Alexia N. Willie, was charged November 7 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois with 14 felony counts of Interstate Communication of a Threat to Injure, court records show. He allegedly modeled his actions off of the transgender-identifying woman who shot up the Christian Covenant School in Tennessee.
“A person in Tennessee walked into one of your schools and shot up a bunch of your Christian daughters. That’s not the last of them if you don’t shut your f***ing mouth,” Willie said, according to the indictment.
“There’s a lot of transgenders out here that are tired of being picked on and we’re going to go into the schools and we’re going to kill their f***ing children out here, and that’s the end of it. We’re at war,” he allegedly said, also saying ,“Let me put a bullet in your head.”
In August 2023, the 47-year old made a video call on an online platform in which he said, “I guarantee I’ll be in the bathroom raping your Christian daughters,” the <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67987364/united-states-v-willie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment</a> alleged.
“I catch your daughters in them bathrooms alone, I am gonna f*** them. I mean I am gonna f*** f*** them until they’re dead,” he said, according to the indictment.
“I’m openly a pedophile …. You can’t do nothing about us. You can cry. Cry. Put me on national television, I don’t care. I’m transgender, I’m in the bathroom raping your f*** daughters and I’m openly letting you guys know this. The Republican Party, what are you f****ts going to do about us?” he allegedly said.
Willie also criticized black people, arguing that they are Christian and don’t like transgender people.
“They’re trash, they’re Christian trash. They’re transphobic, they’re homophobic. They’re no different than the f***ing white supremacists. That’s exactly who the f*** they are. Listen, Dave Chappelle and all the blacks out here, all the black people out here talking about trannies and s***, they ain’t no different than the white supremacists either. You all bow to the same cross,” he allegedly said.
Willie also said he would inject people with HIV in the bathroom if he saw them wearing a cross, according to the indictment.
“I catch you b*****s out here with a cross around your neck in that restroom, you better know we’re going to hit you with a f***ing syringe,” he allegedly said, adding “shut the f*** up, n*****.”
The Department of Justice led with him using the n-word, burying the transgender comments later in the indictment.
Willie pleaded not guilty November 9, and Magistrate Judge Reona J. Daly ordered that he be held in jail on November 14. A <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilsd.98857/gov.uscourts.ilsd.98857.16.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proffer of evidence</a>, presented by federal prosecutors to convince the judge to hold him in jail, said that Willie made the comments in August on the video platform “MeetMe,” where his username was “Mentally Unstable.”
It said that the Perry County Sherriff&#8217;s Office had arrested him at the time, but that Willie mocked them while he was being transported to jail, predicting that Illinois would free him immediately. “I’ll get out of jail right now, you watch me. And when I get out you have no idea,” he said in a recording from a police van, federal prosecutors said.
<a href="https://reduxx.info/trans-identified-male-arrested-after-threatening-to-murder-children-in-illinois-over-transphobic-bullying/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reduxx</a> reported on October 16 about that local arrest, and Sherriff Chad Howard told the outlet that Willie&#8217;s prediction was accurate: he was released on $0 bond 48 hours after being booked. Though Willie was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, “the disorderly conduct did not stick” because “there was no one individual person or individual school directly threatened,” the sherriff said. That left only a resisting arrest charge, which Howard said because of Illinois’ new SAFE-T Act, a suspect cannot be held in jail for.
The sheriff told Reduxx that in a jailhouse interview, Willie said that when he said “we” were coming for your children, “he was speaking on behalf of the transgender community.”
Willie was released from state custody on August 17, and on August 24, Willie&#8217;s roommate contacted Perry County Sheriff’s Office to say that “Willie claimed to be learning how to use firearms and how to obtain a firearm so that she could follow through on the threats that she had made,” federal documents said.
On August 25, the FBI received another tip from MeetMe that he was still making similar comments. On November 8, the FBI arrested him, according to the federal court document.
A trial is set for January 16. Judith A. Kuenneke, a public defender listed as Willie&#8217;s representative, did not return a request for comment.
Federal prosecutors said that the FBI had repeatedly been warned about Willie by his roommate over the years, who told the bureau that “Willie goes on the internet to find preachers, or republicans, or black people,” and that “the FBI had come to his house a couple times over the last few years because of Willie’s online conduct.”
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They wrote that in December 2018, “the FBI received reports of a threat on Facebook in which Willie claimed to have killed a preacher that had molested Willie.” In November 2019, the video platform Twitch reported that he said he threatened to kill people, and mentioned people who discriminate against transgenders; the FBI interviewed him and Willie told him he didn’t mean it.
“On March 28, one day after the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, the FBI received a report that Willie posted on Facebook that there would be many more and larger attacks on Christians by transgender people and that Christians would come to know fear like never before,” it said.
The FBI has suggested that it is not treating the Tennessee shooting as a hate crime.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fbi-dropped-probe-of-pedophile-to-focus-on-january-6-now-hes-accused-of-abusing-10-year-old-boy">The FBI Halted Probe Of Pedophile To Focus On January 6. Now He’s Accused Of Abusing A 10-Year-Old Boy.</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-satanist-pedophile-gang-is-torturing-kids-the-fbi-didnt-seem-to-care-unless-it-could-blame-white-supremacy">A Satanist Pedophile Gang Is Torturing Kids. The FBI Didn’t Seem To Care Unless It Could Blame White Supremacy.</a>

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A freshman at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nashville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nashville</a>&#8216;s Belmont University was shot in the head by a man who just earlier this year was jailed for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, but was released after a court deemed him mentally incompetent to stand trial, according to police.
The 18-year-old student and aspiring musician from New Jersey was hit with a stray bullet while walking at a Nashville, Tennessee park near Belmont’s campus at 2:30 pm on Tuesday. The suspected killer was identified as 29-year-old Shaquille Taylor, who police arrested on Wednesday and charged with aggravated assault and evidence tampering. Taylor’s bond was placed at $280,000.
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BREAKING: Shaquille Taylor, 29, is being charged with agg assault &amp; evidence tampering for Tue afternoon&#39;s shooting of Belmont Univ student Jillian Ludwig, 18. Taylor was shooting at a car when a bullet hit Ludwig in the head as she walked on a track in a park across the street. <a href="https://t.co/ZkoB7clySc">pic.twitter.com/ZkoB7clySc</a>
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“Taylor was shooting at a car when a bullet hit Ludwig in the head as she walked on a track across the street,” a statement from the Metro Nashville Police Department reads. Police say she was shot at 2:24 pm, but she was not found until approximately 3:30 pm, when a <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/shaquille-taylor-remains-jailed-tuesdays-shooting-belmont-university-student" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passerby saw her</a> and called the police. She was taken to the hospital and passed away during the night.
Davidson County <a href="https://sci.ccc.nashville.gov/Search/CriminalHistory?P_CASE_IDENTIFIER=SHAQUILLE%5ETAYLOR%5E08291994%5E500629" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court records</a> reveal that Taylor has a long criminal history. He served 11 months and 29 days for a 2016 assault charge and was found guilty for contributing to the delinquency of a minor in 2018, which resulted in him serving a year and two months on probation.
In 2021, Taylor was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he was <a href="https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/who-is-shaquille-taylor-the-man-charged-with-shooting-a-belmont-university-student" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> of shooting into a car containing a woman and two children — a 3-year-old and 1-year-old. Although he admitted to detectives that he did shoot into the vehicle, Taylor was deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial, resulting in ​​Judge Angelita Blackshear Dalton dismissing the case.
The judge <a href="https://apnews.com/article/belmont-student-shooting-jillian-ludwig-nashville-tennessee-daead11c0744ddcd5c8992680782e7d5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> Taylor back onto the street after it was found that he did not meet the criteria for involuntary commitment to a mental institution.
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Jillian Ludwig passed away. A stray bullet killed her when she was just simply walking in a park Tuesday afternoon. I asked her aunt if there’s more I can do to help and she said, “You can keep her story alive so this man and others like him never devastate another family.” <a href="https://t.co/Z4C8quGpxt">pic.twitter.com/Z4C8quGpxt</a>
&mdash; Kelsey Gibbs (@kelseymgibbs) <a href="https://twitter.com/kelseymgibbs/status/1722630098841723364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Just months later, Taylor was <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/shaquille-taylor-remains-jailed-tuesdays-shooting-belmont-university-student" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged with felony auto theft</a> after he was seen driving a car that had been carjacked by two men in ski masks just days earlier, according to police. He was released on $20,000 bond and failed to appear in court.
Nashville District Attorney General Glenn Funk criticized the Tennessee law pertaining to involuntary commitment, slamming the “nearly impossible standard” and asserting that “the law must be altered to accurately balance individual needs with public safety.”
&#8220;I definitely think it is worth looking at the gap that exists between someone who is deemed incompetent to stand trial, and yet winds up then in a place where they can be on the streets untreated and armed,&#8221; newly elected Nashville Mayor Freddie O&#8217;Connell stated at a media roundtable.
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🎙️ At today&#39;s media roundtable, <a href="https://twitter.com/freddieoconnell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@freddieoconnell</a> talked about the &quot;loophole&quot; that allowed Taylor back on the street. Here was part of his response:
&quot;I definitely think it is worth looking at the gap that exists between someone who is deemed incompetent to stand trial, and yet…
&mdash; The Pamphleteer, Nashville ✰ ✰ ✰ (@realpamphleteer) <a href="https://twitter.com/realpamphleteer/status/1722750186001174890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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His comments also indicated that even those who&#8217;ve been charged with murder could be let back out onto the street, stating &#8220;I suspect that if there were a murder charge, for the same suspect, it could be possible that that would be dismissed.&#8221;
“Unfortunately, our criminal legal system and limited mental health access left a dangerous individual both untreated and legally armed,” <a href="https://fox59.com/news/national-world/student-at-nashvilles-belmont-university-in-critical-condition-after-being-hit-by-stray-bullet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> O’Connell, a Democrat, who called the shooting an act of “senseless gun violence.” He added “Doctors have previously deemed the suspected shooter to be incompetent to stand trial.”

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Belmont University Freshman Shot Dead By Criminal Who Was Just Released By Court Over Mental Incompetence: Police

Nashville police said Wednesday that seven individuals were on &#8220;administrative assignment&#8221; as authorities continue investigating the leaked three pages from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-police-finally-address-leaked-images-of-covenant-school-shooters-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Covenant School shooter’s writings</a> earlier this week.
“Seven individuals are on administrative assignment (absolutely non-punitive) to protect the integrity of the active, progressing investigation,” a spokesperson from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department told The Daily Wire. “All seven have full police power. We are not identifying any of the seven by name. Not fair to them.”
Podcaster Steven Crowder, host of the &#8220;Louder with Crowder&#8221; talk show, released the three photographs from the shooter’s alleged manifesto on Monday morning.
The pages contained a number of racial slurs targeted at white children and a full itinerary of the tragic day labeled “Death Day,” where she stated her intent to achieve a “high death count” of students at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian-affiliated pre-K-6 private Christian academy.
Crowder told local outlet WKRN that a detective present at the Covenant School in the aftermath of the mass shooting took the photos of the images and later sent them to a source within the Metro Nashville Police Department. Crowder said his team traveled to Nashville to obtain the pictures and verify the authenticity of the source.
He added that authorities should be able to authenticate the images, considering the police department was in possession of the manifesto.
Nashville police later released a vague statement on the images of the trans-identifying school shooter’s manifesto, saying they “are not MNPD crime scene images,” and that it is investigating the release of the three photographs.
“The MNPD is in communication with the Metropolitan Department of Law as an investigation, begun this morning, continues into the dissemination of three photographs of writings during an on-line discussion about Covenant School,” Metro Nashville Police Department said in a news release. “The photographs are not MNPD crime scene images.”
“The police department has been in contact with a representative of Covenant families,” the statement added. “Police department counselors are available to assist them in coping with the emotional trauma caused by the dissemination.”
Nashville Chief of Police John Drake <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/statement-chief-drake-concerning-covenant-shooter-writings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a statement following the leaked images purportedly belonging to the Covenant School shooter.
“I am greatly disturbed by today’s unauthorized release of three pages of writings from the Covenant shooter,&#8221; Drake said in a news release. &#8220;This police department is extremely serious about the investigation to identify the person responsible.&#8221;
Drake said the release of the images &#8220;showed a total disregard for Covenant families, as well as the court system,&#8221; which currently have possession of the shooter&#8217;s journals due to litigation  filed earlier this year.
&#8220;We are not at liberty to release the journals until the courts rule,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our police department looks forward to the ultimate resolution of the litigation concerning the journals.”
Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell released a statement, saying he directed authorities to launch an investigation into the leaked documents.
“I have directed Wally Dietz, Metro’s Law Director, to initiate an investigation into how these images could have been released,” O’Connell said. “That investigation may involve local, state, and federal authorities. I am deeply concerned with the safety, security, and well-being of the Covenant families and all Nashvillians who are grieving. This incident naturally invokes additional emotional trauma, and families or individuals who need support should reach out to professionals at National Alliance on Mental Illness (615-891-4724), MNPD support counselors (615-862-7773) or MNPS Family Information Center (615-259-INFO).”
Multiple news outlets, including The Daily Wire and FOX 17 News, have independently confirmed the authenticity of the pages. It is unclear whether the police department is calling into question the authenticity of the images.
On March 27, 2023, the shooter, whom The Daily Wire is not naming to avoid giving notoriety to mass shooters, went on a rampage inside the Nashville elementary school. The victims included three students — Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9; Hallie Scruggs, 9; William Kinney, 9 — and three staff members — headmaster Katherine Koonce, 60; Cynthia Peak, 61; and Mike Hill, 61.
Hours after the shooting, federal and local authorities searched the shooter’s property, where they found five laptops, a suicide note, two memoirs, five Covenant School yearbooks, and seven cellphones, according to a search warrant. Authorities found more writings inside the shooter’s vehicle left in the Covenant School parking lot.
The materials have since been in high-demand to follow a long-standing tradition of U.S. law enforcement to release the manifesto of a school mass shooter when it is recovered by authorities — typically within 48 hours of the tragedy.
The Daily Wire and a host of other organizations have sought access through open records requests to the collection of her writings.
School officials and a group of parents — including the shooter’s parents — have requested that the writings remain private, citing safety concerns for their families and school staff while arguing they have rights as victims under the Tennessee Constitution that supersede the open records law. But organizations, including the National Police Association, say that Tennessee state law requires authorities to release the manifesto to the public.
An ongoing legal battle continues whether authorities should release the full manifesto to the public. It is now pending in Davidson County Chancery Court and the Tennessee Court of Appeals.

Nashville Police Say 7 Individuals On ‘Administrative Assignment’ Amid Probe Into Leaked Images From Covenant School Shooter’s Manifesto

Nashville Police Say 7 Individuals On 'Administrative Assignment' Amid Probe Into Leaked Images From Covenant School Shooter’s Manifesto

On Monday, the long-hidden manifesto of the Nashville, Tennessee, trans school shooter was leaked.
On March 27, 2023, the shooter, a 28-year-old woman who believed she was a man, opened fire at the Covenant School in Green Hills, killing six people. 
Given the identity of the shooter, the media quickly jumped to the narrative that the story was about lack of gun control. In fact, that narrative quickly spun into a narrative about racism after two black Democratic lawmakers illegally stormed the House floor in Tennessee, took control of the chamber, and then faced the prospect of expulsion from their seats.
Gun control and racism against black Americans — those were the narratives the media spun about the Nashville shooting. 
The real story, obviously, wasn’t that.
It was the evil insanity of the shooter herself.
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What might have forced coverage of that issue would have been the shooter’s manifesto. In virtually all other cases in which a mass shooter leaves a manifesto, the manifesto, or at least its general message, is made public nearly immediately: the August 2023 Jacksonville shooting targeting black Americans featured a white supremacist manifesto; the 2019 El Paso shooting targeting Hispanic Americans featured a white supremacist manifesto; the 2015 Charleston church shooting featured a white supremacist manifesto. 
The shooter in Nashville had a manifesto too.
But we were told that it was utterly unclear just why the shooter had targeted a religious school. And we were told that the manifesto was “rambling,” without a clear political motivation. In fact, a federal law enforcement official told NBC News that “no direct motive has been established in the investigation and suggested the driving force of the attack was similar to previous school shootings in which the assailant was drawn to other mass killers.” 
We were told that the manifesto might never be released, despite the fact that the Nashville Police Department released a list of items belonging to the shooter, including a suicide note, three folders, and 19 journals. 
It has now been seven months. The manifesto still has not been released.
But Steven Crowder’s investigative team somehow obtained three pages of the manifesto. Here is some of what it says:
<blockquote>Kill those kids!!! Those crackers going to private fancy schools with those fancy khakis and sports backpacks, with their daddy’s mustangs and convertibles. F*** you little s***s. I wish to shoot you weak*** d***s with your mop yellow hair, wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little fa**ots with your white privileges. F*** you fa**ots.”” 
Today is the day, the day has finally come! I can’t believe it’s here. Don’t know how I was able to get this far, but here I am. I’m a little nervous but excited too. Been excited for the past 2 weeks. There were several times I could have been caught, especially back in the summer of 2021. None of that matters now. I’m almost an hour and seven minutes away. Can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m ready… I hope my victims aren’t. My only fear is if anything goes wrong, I’ll do my best to prevent any of the sort (God let my wrath take over my anxiety). It might be 10 minutes tops. It might be 3-7. It’s gunna go quick. I hope I have a high death count.</blockquote>
So, what do we know about the shooter? We know that the shooter spouted radical Left-wing slogans about white privilege and wanted to shoot white kids. We also know that the shooter came out as a transgender man on Facebook in 2022. We know that the shooter attended the Christian school as a 10-year-old.
In other words, we know that a transgender person suffering from severe mental illness and citing Left-wing slogans on race targeted white Christian kids. Were the case the reverse — were the shooter a religious Christian targeting sexually confused children of color — the manifesto would have been released almost immediately. The entire media conversation would have centered on the evils of Christianity and white racism in America. 
But this story had to be buried — and quickly.
It is not OK to talk about trans violence in the United States, despite violent threats that attach to anyone who says that men are not women. In fact, the Washington Post ran an entire piece after the trans school shooting claiming the Right was “exploit[ing] Nashville shooting to escalate anti-trans rhetoric.” The White House issued its sympathy for trans people overall, with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre intoning, “Our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack right now.&#8221; The story is always that trans Americans are experiencing a massive wave of deadly violence — even though the story isn’t true. 
It is not OK to talk about anti-white violence in the United States either. Whiteness, we have been told, must be abolished. Whiteness is inherently privileged. Whiteness is a disease, a curse. Never mind the fact that in 2021, 87% of all non-lethal interracial violent crimes committed between blacks and whites were black-on-white, as Heather Mac Donald points out. Whiteness is the problem.
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The fact that these are cherished Left-wing narratives means they must be protected at all costs. And that means burying an inconvenient manifesto.
In reality, if we’re going to release any mass shooter’s manifesto, we must release all of them. If we’re going to examine the motives of mass shooters in order to uncover supposedly unique American ills, we are owed the full panoply of the criminally evil.
But we won’t get that full view. 
And we all know why.

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Trans Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Leaked After Not Being Released. It Didn’t Fit The Leftist Narrative.

Trans Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Leaked After Not Being Released. It Didn’t Fit the Leftist Narrative.

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The Metro Nashville Police Department on Monday afternoon released a vague statement on the images of the trans-identifying school shooter&#8217;s manifesto, saying they &#8220;are not MNPD crime scene images,&#8221; and that it is investigating the release of the three photographs.
&#8220;The MNPD is in communication with the Metropolitan Department of Law as an investigation, begun this morning, continues into the dissemination of three photographs of writings during an on-line discussion about Covenant School,&#8221; Metro Nashville Police Department said in a <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/mnpd-statement-concerning-line-photograph-dissemination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. &#8220;The photographs are not MNPD crime scene images.&#8221;
&#8220;The police department has been in contact with a representative of Covenant families,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;Police department counselors are available to assist them in coping with the emotional trauma caused by the dissemination.&#8221;
Podcaster Steven Crowder, host of the Louder with Crowder talk show, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-shooter-decried-crackers-and-white-privilege-leaked-manifesto-pages-reveal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> the three photographs from the shooter&#8217;s alleged manifesto on Monday morning. The pages contained a number of racial slurs targeted at white children and a full itinerary of the tragic day labeled, &#8220;Death Day,&#8221; where she stated her intent to achieve a &#8220;high death count&#8221; of students at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian-affiliated pre-K-6 private Christian academy.
Multiple news outlets, including The Daily Wire and <a href="https://fox17.com/news/local/nashville-tennessee-news-graphic-writings-left-behind-by-the-covenant-school-mass-shooter-leaked-reigniting-debate">FOX 17 News</a>, have independently confirmed the authenticity of the pages. It is unclear whether the police department is calling into question the authenticity of the images.
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🚨 BREAKING: Nashville School Covenant Shooter Audrey Hale’s “DEATH DAY” Manifesto Targeted “Cr*ckers” with “white privlages”
“wanna kill all you little cr*ckers”
“I hope I have a high death count”
&quot;I&#39;m ready&#8230;I hope my victims aren&#39;t.&quot;
&quot;Ready to die.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NashvilleManifesto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NashvilleManifesto</a> <a href="https://t.co/89Ie6TlgRf">pic.twitter.com/89Ie6TlgRf</a>
&mdash; Steven Crowder (@scrowder) <a href="https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1721545965402726734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Crowder <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/covenant-school-mass-shooting/unverified-documents-by-covenant-shooter-released-by-radio-host/?utm_source=wkrn_app&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=share-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> local outlet WKRN that a detective present at the Covenant School in the aftermath of the mass shooting took the photos of the images and later sent them to a source within the Metro Nashville Police Department. Crowder said his team traveled to Nashville to obtain the pictures and verify the authenticity of the source.
He added authorities should be able to authenticate the images, considering the police department was in possession of the manifesto.
Nashville Mayor Freddie O&#8217;Connell released a statement, saying he directed authorities to launch an investigation into the leaked documents.
&#8220;I have directed Wally Dietz, Metro&#8217;s Law Director, to initiate an investigation into how these images could have been released,&#8221; O&#8217;Connell said. &#8220;That investigation may involve local, state, and federal authorities. I am deeply concerned with the safety, security, and well-being of the Covenant families and all Nashvillians who are grieving. This incident naturally invokes additional emotional trauma, and families or individuals who need support should reach out to professionals at National Alliance on Mental Illness (615-891-4724), MNPD support counselors (615-862-7773) or MNPS Family Information Center (615-259-INFO).&#8221;
On March 27, 2023, the shooter, whom The Daily Wire is not naming to avoid giving notoriety to shooters, went on a rampage inside the Nashville elementary school. The victims included three students — Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9; Hallie Scruggs, 9; William Kinney, 9 — and three staff members — headmaster Katherine Koonce, 60; Cynthia Peak, 61; and Mike Hill, 61.
Hours after the shooting, federal and local authorities searched the shooter&#8217;s property, where they found five laptops, a suicide note, two memoirs, five Covenant School yearbooks, and seven cellphones, according to a search warrant. Authorities found more writings inside the shooter&#8217;s vehicle left in the Covenant School parking lot.
The shooter, a former student at the Covenant School, reportedly documented plans in journals, which revealed her considerations and timeline for the attack at the school. Some documents obtained by law enforcement indicated the shooter had been planning a massacre at the private Christian elementary school for months and considered &#8220;the actions of other mass murderers.&#8221;
Attorney David Raybin, who represents the shooter&#8217;s family, released a <a href="https://www.wsmv.com/2023/11/06/investigation-underway-after-release-alleged-covenant-shooters-writings-nashville-mayor-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to an NBC affiliate concerning the manifesto.
&#8220;We have never seen [a] manifesto at any time,&#8221; David Raybin said. &#8220;We&#8217;re not in a position to authenticate these pieces of paper. We have absolutely not released anything, but we certainly did not release this. It&#8217;s inappropriate for me to make any further comment about it.&#8221;
It&#8217;s a long-standing tradition of U.S. law enforcement to release the manifesto of a school mass shooter when it is recovered by authorities — typically within 48 hours of the tragedy. But after months of withholding the documents from the public, a growing speculation that the shooter&#8217;s so-called gender identity has corrupted the official&#8217;s judgment from being transparent.
The Daily Wire and a host of other organizations have sought access through open records requests to the collection of her writings.
School officials and a group of parents — including the shooter&#8217;s parents — have requested that the writings remain private, citing safety concerns for their families and school staff while arguing they have rights as victims under the Tennessee Constitution that supersede the open records law. But organizations, including the National Police Association, say that Tennessee state law requires authorities to release the manifesto to the public.
An ongoing legal battle continues whether authorities should release the full manifesto to the public.

Nashville Police Finally Address Leaked Images Of Covenant School Shooter’s Manifesto

Leaked Content Allegedly Belonging To Trans-Identifying School Shooter's Manifesto Not 'Crime Scene Images,' Nashville Police Say

A 7-year-old girl from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nashville">Nashville</a> is being hailed as a hero after she rescued her 3-year-old sister during a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/carjacking">carjacking</a> incident involving their grandfather while he was picking them up from daycare.
Convicted felon Elijah Malik McDowell, 27, who was on probation at the time, had been on the run after allegedly carjacking a black Dodge Charger by holding a 35-year-old victim at gunpoint, <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/convicted-felon-probation-arrested-committing-two-carjackings-wednesday-evening">according</a> to the Metro Nashville Police Department. McDowell abandoned the car after crashing it and headed off on foot into a residential area. 
That’s where he encountered Luis Mena, who was picking up his granddaughters Stephanie, 3, and Amy, 7, from daycare. 
“We started fighting,” Mena told local news outlet <a href="https://www.wsmv.com/2023/10/27/nashville-7-year-old-saves-sister-after-grandfather-gets-carjacked-gunpoint/">WSMV</a>. He told the interviewer that McDowell opened the driver’s side door and attempted to force Mena out of his Toyota Tundra pickup truck. “But my T-shirt got all broken. He grabbed me from my T-shirt and threw me to the ground,” Mena said.
The grandfather said he lost consciousness, waking up because he heard his grandchildren crying. At first, he believed the suspect had taken off in the truck with the two little girls still inside.
“What made me conscious again was when one of my little kids cried,” Mena said, per WSMV. “That was my biggest worry — not only my truck getting stolen, but with my girls in it.”
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What actually happened was Amy had managed to get her little sister out of the vehicle during the attack.
“I was fighting with this guy,” Mena said. “[Amy] jumped from the truck, and she pulled her sister out of the truck so they could escape and be safe.”
“The materialistic things come and go. But my girls don’t,” he added.
McDowell ditched the vehicle a short time later and was apprehended by a police canine unit. He was treated at the hospital for dog bite injuries.
He was next charged with multiple crimes, including two counts of carjacking, two counts of felony evading arrest, unlawful gun possession by a convicted felon, gun use during the commission of a violent felony, possessing a “Glock switch” to make a gun fully automatic, aggravated assault for driving at the two children, reckless driving, resisting arrest, and driving on a revoked license, per the report. His bond was set at $211,000. 
WSMV reported that McDowell was previously convicted of aggravated assault and narcotics charges.

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Nashville 7-Year-Old Saves Younger Sister When Their Grandfather Got Carjacked

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A manhunt is underway for the son of the chief of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department following the shooting of two Tennessee police officers on Saturday. 
While <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-police-search-suspect-shot-2-officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigating</a> a suspected stolen vehicle outside of a Dollar General store in La Vergne, Tennessee, roughly 20 miles southeast of Nashville, two La Vergne police officers were allegedly shot by 38-year-old John C. Drake, Jr. – the son of Nashville Police Chief John Drake. The officers were hospitalized following the shooting, and Chief Drake has since called for his son&#8217;s arrest. 
“I am shocked and deeply saddened to learn that my estranged son, with whom I have had very minimal contact over many years, is the suspect in this afternoon’s shooting of the two La Vergne police officers,” Drake said. 
“Despite my efforts and guidance in the early and teenage years, my son, John Drake Jr., now 38-years-old, resorted to years of criminal activity and is a convicted felon. He has not been a part of my life for quite some time. He now needs to be found and held accountable for his actions today,” he continued, urging anyone with information to contact police immediately.
When police arrived to investigate the suspected stolen car just before 2:30 p.m., they initially struggled with the suspect, who pulled out a handgun and proceeded to fire several shots at the officers, La Vergne Police Chief Christopher Moews said. According to the New York Post, one of the officers, who has been with the department for a year and a half, was <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/22/nashville-police-chief-john-drake-calls-for-estranged-sons-arrest-after-he-shot-two-cops-inside-dollar-general/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot</a> in the groin and right forearm. The other has been with the department for nearly three years and was shot in the rear left shoulder. After the shooting, authorities say Drake fled the scene in the car in question. One of the officers was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-officers-shot-nashville-police-chief-son-db83dfaa27512b5ad084c3d8e5ae6c6c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> from the hospital on Saturday night, while the other was expected to stay overnight for observation.
Moews called on residents in the area to shelter in place following the shooting. That order lasted roughly 11 hours, according to the Post, but the suspect still has not been found. He is considered armed and dangerous. 
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Roughly a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-officers-shot-nashville-police-chief-son-db83dfaa27512b5ad084c3d8e5ae6c6c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozen</a> law enforcement agencies are now involved in the manhunt for Drake Jr., who is wanted on two counts of attempted first-degree murder, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a social media <a href="https://twitter.com/TBInvestigation/status/1715936592274018692" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>. A statewide alert has been issued for the suspect, who is 5’11” and weighs 195 pounds. 
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A statewide <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TNBlueAlert?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TNBlueAlert</a> has been issued for John Drake, Jr. 
Drake is wanted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for two counts of attempted first-degree murder. 
Drake should be considered armed and extremely dangerous. Call 1-800-TBI-FIND with info. <a href="https://t.co/5Z1ie2OhLP">pic.twitter.com/5Z1ie2OhLP</a>
&mdash; Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (@TBInvestigation) <a href="https://twitter.com/TBInvestigation/status/1715936592274018692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“My heart goes out to Chief Drake, his family, and the two wounded LaVergne police officers. I know that despite our best efforts — including in their early years — we can’t be responsible for the choices of family members,” Nashville Democratic Mayor Freddie O’Connell said. “I support Chief Drake and stand by him at this difficult time.”
Since 2005, Drake Jr. has been criminally charged 59 times in Davidson County alone, which, as the New York Post notes, does not include La Vergne, located in neighboring Rutherford County. Drake Jr. has previously been charged with theft, burglary, possession of a controlled substance, and assault, among other offenses. He has been convicted of four separate sex offender violations, according to the Post.

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Nashville Police Chief’s Son Suspected In Shooting Of 2 Officers; Manhunt Underway

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Recording artist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Maren Morris</a> and her husband, fellow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/country-singer">country singer</a> Ryan Hurd, are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/divorce">divorcing</a> after five years of marriage.
The 33-year-old singer-songwriter filed for a dissolution of marriage on October 2 in Tennessee, per documents obtained by <a href="https://people.com/maren-morris-files-for-divorce-ryan-hurd-7565848">People Magazine</a>. The reason for divorce was recorded as “irreconcilable differences.” 
Morris requested in the filing for their prenuptial agreement to be enforced and for joint custody of their 3-year-old son, Hayes Andrew.
The news surprised fans as it came just after Hurd vocalized his support for Morris when she announced she was leaving country music due to political differences. The “My Church” singer said many country music fans were “misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic” and that certain “hyper-masculine” country is, in her opinion, “butt rock.” 
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“I don’t want to say goodbye, but I really cannot participate in the really toxic arms of this institution anymore,” she told The New York Times in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjtYzK8JNB4&amp;ab_channel=TheNewYorkTimes">podcast</a> interview.
Hurd posted on social media in support of his wife’s decision and overall statements about country singers and fans. &#8220;She deserves to be celebrated, not just tolerated,&#8221; Hurd wrote in a lengthy post shared on September 20. &#8220;I’m so sick of watching my wife get the sh** kicked out of her by the internet. I’m sick of every talking head having some kind of stupid opinion about what she says. It’s the same every time, why are you surprised when she calls out something racist or homophobic? I’m sick of people getting rewarded for it.&#8221;
He added, &#8220;She deserves a little sunshine for the burden she has carried for every artist and fan that feels the same way. I can’t wait for that first tour and to see all of the smiling and beautiful people who needed these songs and also need HER. I can’t wait to make music that follows the same path, whatever that is. Love you, MM. Keep on keepin’ on.&#8221;
Neither Hurd nor Morris has publicly commented on the divorce news. They first met in 2013 after collaborating on a song and wed in 2018.
Morris has been involved in several public feuds with country star Jason Aldean and his wife, Brittany Aldean, regarding hot-button social issues such as transgenderism.

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