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Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy said the shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, which officials have said was motivated by racism should not be politicized, noting that the manifesto of the person who carried out a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this year has not been released

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the (sometimes ironic) slogan of The Washington Post. But it’s also a fair description of what’s happening in Tennessee, as the state Legislature is being called to a special session even as local and federal officials withhold information that might be critical to its decision-making. Gov. Bill Lee ordered the special session to begin Aug. 21 in response to a March 27 mass shooting in which three adults and three children at the Covenant School, a Christian school in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood, were killed. The Nashville Tennessean article refers only to “a shooter.” The...

Nashville Democrat Justin Jones, a member of the so-called “Tennessee Three,” won back his state House seat Thursday after Republican lawmakers expelled him for his participation in a pro-gun control protest in the Capitol. Jones, 27, defeated Republican candidate Laura Nelson. Along with Jones, fellow Democrat Justin Pearson, 28, was also vying to reclaim his House seat in Memphis against independent candidate Jeff Johnston after also being expelled in April. The young Black lawmakers were reinstated by local officials after being booted from the GOP-dominated Statehouse, but only on an interim basis. They needed to clear a special election in...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nashville is headed to a runoff in the mayor’s race as no candidate received the needed 50% of the vote to win. Freddie O’Connell and Alice Rolli finished with the most votes. Coming in third and just missing the runoff was Matt Wiltshire. According to Davidson County Elections Administrator Jeff Roberts, the runoff election would take place Sept. 14, along with the special general election for TN House District 51.

The efforts of parents and Nashville community members to stop the release of Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale’s writings, if successful, would be an unprecedented move that could have bigger implications going forward, an open-government expert told The Post. Tennessee’s victims’ rights statute does not give individuals a “carte blanche” to veto other laws, such as the one that allows people the right to public records, said Deborah Fisher, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government. “There’s nothing really to indicate that there would be this ability for victims to veto the release of otherwise public records and...

Trucking giant Yellow collapsed on Sunday, ceasing operations immediately and leaving some 30,000 workers without jobs. The closure is the biggest in terms of jobs and revenue in the U.S. trucking industry, according to The Wall Street Journal - which first reported its shutdown. The company, which received $700 million in federal COVID relief funds in 2020, is preparing to file for bankruptcy and is in talks to sell off all or parts of the business. The nearly 100-year-old firm is known for its competitive pricing and has more than 12,000 trucks shipping freight across the US for brands including...

The Nashville Christian school shooter Audrey Hale had mysterious handwritten notes on her clothes, a knife inscribed with her chosen name of Aiden and an anklet with the number 508407 etched on it, an autopsy report revealed. The report comes four months after the transgender shooter opened fire at The Covenant School - killing three adults and three children on March 27. The autopsy revealed Hale's clothing were covered in 'handwritten words, drawings and numbers'. It's unclear what was written on her clothes. The report also noted that Hale, 28, wore an orange plastic anklet with the mysterious inscription '508407.'...

A Tennessee man has been charged in connection with a threat against conservative journalist and talk radio show host Michael Patrick Leahy over Leahy's lawsuit to obtain the Nashville school shooter manifesto, allegedly telling Leahy, "I'm willing to go to prison to end you." Leahy, CEO of The Star News Network, and the network’s parent company, Star News Digital Media Inc., are involved in a lawsuit to release the manifesto of transgender person Audrey Hale, who killed three students and three faculty members in March at a Nashville Christian school Hale had attended. The person charged in connection with the...

A stagehand for country music superstar Randy Travis was shot dead over the weekend by his wife, who believed he was having an affair, police have revealed. Christine Roberts, 72, was arrested and charged with criminal homicide Sunday after she allegedly shot her husband, Thomas Roberts, 68, on the porch of their Nashville, Tenn., home, police said. When officers responded to the home, she told them she shot her husband “because he had cheated on her,” according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. Thomas Roberts, who had worked for the “Diggin’ Up Bones” hitmaker for over two decades, died from...

. Where’s the Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto? The one the FBi didn’t want to be released?

In recent months, following the Covenant School Shooting, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission head Brent Leatherwood has been outspoken in support of gun control legislation, throwing the lobbying power of the Southern Baptist Convention behind the gun control proposals of Tennessee Governor Bill Lee. Leatherwood, whose three children attend Covenant School, supports the governor’s bid to bring red-flag gun control laws to Tennessee, which would result in the removal of guns from the possession of citizens without due process. But actions have consequences, and this move could be used in the future to nullify the second...

I found this youtube channel that breaks down Hale's autopsy. Even has the toxicology report, which some of you were wanting to know in my last post. video is 13 minutes long

Jean-Pierre says White House's 'hearts go out to the transgender community' White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that the "trans community" in America is "under attack," just days after a transgender former student opened fire in a Nashville school and killed six people. "One of the things that we saw during the midterm elections is that people don't want their freedoms to be taken. They want us to fight for their freedoms," Jean-Pierre said to reporters as she answered questions from the briefing room. "It is shameful, it is disturbing, and our hearts go out to the trans...

Townhall has exclusively obtained trans-identified mass shooter Audrey "Aiden" Elizabeth Hale's autopsy report months after the murderer massacred six victims, including three children, at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee. Though the cause of death was apparent, a hail of gunshots from a pair of heroic Nashville police officers who didn't hesitate to neutralize Hale, the public has been left wondering what drugs were in the mass shooter's system, if any, at the time of the Covenant School rampage. Included in the 11-page document from the Davidson County Medical Examiner's office, a toxicology report found that the blood-,...

All four are now in custody. They are identified as Trey Dennis, 23, Keimari Johnson, 20, and Kenlando Lewis, 18, and Lamarion Buchanan, 19. Yup, you guessed right.

In secret audio obtained by The Tennessee Star, radical leftists who plan to “protest” the upcoming August special session of the General Assembly say they have armed security at the ready. “Also, like there are groups in Nashville who do this – keep in mind – who like, if at any point you need armed security at a protest, there are people who we trust as a community to show up and do that,” said an organizer of the Saturday meeting. The Star obtained the audio from an inside source who attended the meeting, and will be releasing it in...

NASHVILLE – A court filing made by The Covenant School’s legal team on Monday seeks to intervene in ongoing lawsuits that demand the public release of shooter Audrey Hale‘s writings. The National Police Association (NPA) and Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA) have separately filed suits against the city with the same objective. These lawsuits emerged as the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) was in the process of reviewing the writings, referred to as a manifesto, to determine their potential for public disclosure. The school argues that the release of the information “could pose security and safety risks for the school, its...

When Audrey Hale shot her way into Nashville’s Covenant School on March 27 and murdered three adults and three nine-year-old children, attention immediately focused on her “manifesto” as possibly having the answer to the anguished “why?” question. Hale was clearly a seriously troubled young woman who had previously attended the school. She was also undergoing gender transition drug treatments, a fact that made the contents of her manifesto even more intensely of public interest. Such treatments are typically associated with a psychological condition known as “gender dysphoria.” Local authorities initially said the manifesto would be made public in due time,...

A judge has called on the Nashville government to provide unredacted copies of a mass school shooter's manifesto for review by the court. The call for documents comes as part of the Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA) lawsuit against the city regarding the release of the manifesto belonging to The Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale. Hale took the lives of three 9-year-old children and three adult staff members on March 27 of this year. The TFA, alongside former Hamilton County Sheriff James Hammond, filed a lawsuit against the government with the hopes of a court order to disclose the manifesto .

A rebelling Nashville-area teenager stole a school bus and tried to run over a person at a service station moments before police say they could break into the bus and tase him. The unidentified 14-year-old took the bus from Kipp College Prep in an Antioch neighborhood and went on a joy ride in West Nashville on Saturday around 4pm. He made his way to a gas station where he collided with a diesel fuel pump and attempted to run over a pedestrian, according to Metro Nashville Police Department. It's unclear when police started chasing the teenager but he then went...