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Rage and Racism: Nashville Shooter Switched School Target to Avoid Claims of Racism
Jonathan Turley ^ | April 5, 2025 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 04/06/2025 5:13:48 PM PDT by george76

Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old transgender shooter in Nashville, reportedly wanted to kill children so that she would not be forgotten. According to police, the only concern that she had throughout her “rage storms” was not that she would be called a mass murderer or child killer but a racist. Her primary grievance appeared to be with Creswell Middle School, where she was bullied as a transgender student. However, she dropped that target at the last minute because it had a large black population and she did not want to be thought of as a racist.

Hale shot and killed six victims at a Nashville Christian school on March 27, 2023. However, she originally planned to shoot up another school. She created detailed plans for the attack on Creswell Middle School, which she attended, and she blamed for the past bullying. She said that she wanted to become a “god . . . by killing victims nobody would forget: children.”

According to the police report, she spent months working on the plans for the Creswell attack:

“Her OCD was manifest during this time with the excruciating detail she gave to the attack, including precise timelines, detailed descriptions of the clothing she would wear, and the specific route she would progress through the school. The more she pored over the details, the more convinced she was of her own success. The ‘rage storms’ that interspersed these plans also became more heated, showing Hale’s anger was reaching the boiling point.”

However, by March 2020, she changed her mind. Not to spare the lives of innocent children, mind you. She realized that Creswell Middle School had a large minority population and people might think that she was racist. So, she decided to kill the children at the Covenant Christian School because they were mainly white. She would prove she was not a racist by killing those children because of their race:

Hale began to express doubts about targeting Creswell Middle. Her doubts weren’t necessarily about the intention to kill children, but more about the racial demographics of the school. Hale knew a large portion of the student body was black. Though she had no qualms about killing anyone regardless of specific demographical categories, she worried she might be branded as a racist, which would remove her ability to give the motive and reasoning for the attack and [instead] allow others to choose it for her once she was dead.

She wanted to be a mass child killer. The last thing that she wanted was for people to think that she was a racist.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: audrey; audreyhale; banglist; education; hale; hatecrime; manifesto; massmurdering; massshooting; nashville; racist; tennessee; trans; transexual; transgendershooter; transhooter; transviolence; woke
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1 posted on 04/06/2025 5:13:48 PM PDT by george76
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In the warped minds of the woke, being called ‘racist’ is worse than mass murdering.


2 posted on 04/06/2025 5:18:22 PM PDT by simpson96
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What I find shocking in these stories is.....the shooter knows they will die.

That says a lot right here. We were young and scared to get so much as a booster at the Drs.

With these people though.....


3 posted on 04/06/2025 5:24:16 PM PDT by Nifty
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Did Nashville School Shooter Target Pastor’s Family?

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4142046/posts


4 posted on 04/06/2025 5:24:27 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: simpson96

Her motives say a great deal about her programming.


5 posted on 04/06/2025 5:25:21 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: george76

Makes sense in a psycho kind of way.


6 posted on 04/06/2025 5:26:01 PM PDT by roving
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“That says a lot right here. We were young and scared to get so much as a booster at the Drs.”

A big difference is that you would have gotten help for your mental illness instead of being driven totally insane by being told that your mental illness was perfectly normal (and being given gender-bending drugs to reinforce your insanity).


7 posted on 04/06/2025 5:34:00 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Nifty

It’s called suicidal. Been happening since the dawn of man.


8 posted on 04/06/2025 5:35:15 PM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy. )
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To: george76

Mr. Turley: With all due respect you of all people know that a person cannot change their sex and obviously there is no such thing as a “transgender.” Mass murderer? Yes.


9 posted on 04/06/2025 5:41:20 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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Calling her intended victims fags and crackers seems to conflict....


10 posted on 04/06/2025 5:43:17 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: george76

HE


11 posted on 04/06/2025 5:46:02 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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They hid her manifesto because it showed how left-wing she was. If it was a right-wing rant they would have released it day 1.


12 posted on 04/06/2025 5:49:44 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: cowboyusa

In this article she is correctly gendered as a biological woman.


13 posted on 04/06/2025 5:52:05 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: george76

Too bad her mother didn’t abort her at birth.


14 posted on 04/06/2025 5:54:17 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Oh


15 posted on 04/06/2025 5:57:33 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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So... She chose her victims based on skin color to avoid being called racist. Got it. Makes as much sense as a girl dressing in men’s clothes and calling themselves male..


16 posted on 04/06/2025 5:57:37 PM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
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I was bullied in HS, too, and while it wasn’t predominantly black, blacks were 40% of our classes. Some of them bullied me, and some white kids did, too. I considered bullying to be kind of a norm. Didn’t many kids get bullied? I knew a lot of them. We suffered together, though separately.

This girl was just total nuts. I wonder how many of the kids I went to school with were total nuts. Maybe one or two total in a school of 800 - 1000.

However, this was eons ago. Teenagers acted up. I thought that was pretty average behavior.


17 posted on 04/06/2025 5:59:19 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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Not your fault, they’ve made it so confusing that we’re all forced to suffer gender dysphoria to a degree.


18 posted on 04/06/2025 6:01:34 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: george76

Am I correct in thinking the first person she killed was a black maintenance worker?


19 posted on 04/06/2025 6:03:18 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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P.S. Nobody in my HS tried to kill someone else. Fighting was common, but nobody really wanted to kill someone.


20 posted on 04/06/2025 6:18:57 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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