All 90 pages of Nashville transgender shooter Audrey Hale was launched by The Tennessee Star on Tuesday.
You’ll be able to obtain Audrey Hale’s manifesto right here.
Contents from the manifesto of Covenant Faculty shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a organic feminine who recognized as a transgender male on the time of her horrific assault on March 27, 2023, was leaked earlier this yr.
Star Information Digital Media, Inc., which owns and operates The Star, and the publication’s editor-in-chief, Michael Patrick Leahy, are presently plaintiffs in lawsuits looking for to compel the Metro Nashville Police Division (MNPD) and the FBI to launch Hale’s writings, together with these known as a manifesto.
The Tennessee Star beforehand confirmed that it had obtained practically 4 dozen pages of Hale’s writings from a supply accustomed to the investigation. The March 11, 2023 entry revealed her intense need to own a “penis.”
Hale’s diary entry begins with the title “My Imaginary Penis” and features a crude drawing. “My penis exists in my head. I swear to god I’m a male,” wrote Hale within the diary. She then expressed her need to have a penis for heterosexual intercourse, in keeping with The Tennessee Star.
After threats of imprisonment, The Tennessee Star revealed all 90 pages of Audrey Hale’s manifesto.
Excerpts from Audrey Hale’s manifesto:
“If God gained’t give me a boy physique in heaven then Jesus is a f*ggot”
“I can’t be blissful. I’m meant to die”
“No brown ladies, no love”
“Brown love is essentially the most lovely type”
BREAKING: @TheTNStar Has Simply Launched All 90 Pages of The Nashville Manifesto By no means Seen Earlier than
“If God gained’t give me a boy physique in heaven then Jesus is a f*ggot”
“I can’t be blissful. I’m meant to die”
“No brown ladies, no love”
“Brown love is essentially the most lovely type” pic.twitter.com/4UaHEAvMCb
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) September 3, 2024
The Tennessee Star reported:
Hale, who was 28-years-old when she died, was born a organic feminine, however recognized as a transgender male on the time of her assault. She typically signed journal entries utilizing the identify Aiden.
The octagonal image first seems on the journal’s cowl. Inside its pages, the distinctive form subsequent seems on the primary web page, reverse the place the killer wrote, “Why does my mind not work proper? Trigger I used to be born flawed!!!”
Hale’s image seems all through the journal, together with in an undated entry apparently written in mid-March 2023, when the killer wrote concerning the assault she deliberate later that month.
“Quickly I’ll go away this world! You [and] your mates will probably be simply high quality. Does it even matter if I’m alive?” Hale later added the octagonal image, and above it wrote, “No regrets by the gun!!!”
The Tennessee Star legally obtained Audrey Hale’s manifesto/journal and defended their proper to publish the contents.
“Our reporting on the Covenant Killer investigation has served the general public curiosity,” Michael Patrick Leahy, the Editor-in-Chief of The Star, stated on Tuesday.
“We legally obtained writings by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, MNPD investigation paperwork, and MNPD crime scene pictures from a supply accustomed to the MNPD investigation in June 2024. These paperwork and pictures have helped us inform the general public concerning the underlying causes for this heinous assault, and have helped drive the general public dialogue of what needs to be carried out to stop such acts of violence sooner or later. We have now documented a large failure of the psychological well being system as a root explanation for Hale’s reprehensible actions,” Leahy added.
In a assertion launched on Tuesday, Leahy stated, “We have now had a First Modification proper to publish these paperwork from the second we legally obtained them in June 2024.”
We legally obtained this journal – which we check with as The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal to tell apart it from the numerous journals written by Hale previous to 2023 – in early June of 2024 from a supply accustomed to the MNPD investigation. We imagine it to be genuine. Along with our perception, the journal was confirmed as genuine in courtroom by a Metro Nashville Authorities lawyer in attendance at a June 2024 courtroom listening to, and in a courtroom submitting submitted on June 14, 2024 by MNPD Lieutenant Alfredo Alevado. . .
On April 24, 2023, in compliance with the Tennessee Public Information Act, we formally requested of MNPD, a division throughout the Metro Nashville Davidson County Authorities, that they launch all of the writings of Audrey Elizabeth Hale they’d obtained as a part of their investigation into the March 27, 2023 murders. Metro Nashville Authorities denied that request sooner or later later on April 25, 2023, and in Might 2023 we filed swimsuit in opposition to Metro Nashville Authorities in Davidson County, Tennessee Chancery Court docket to acquire these writings, as offered for by the Tennessee Public Information Act. The case was assigned to Decide I’Ashea Myles. On this matter we’re nicely represented by America First Authorized and their excellent native counsel, Nick Barry.
In Might 2023, MNPD offered Decide Myles with all of Hale’s writings obtained by way of their investigation for her in-camera assessment. On July 4, 2024, Decide Myles launched her choice within the case, which was to disclaim our request, on two grounds: (1) MNPD’s assertion that they had been conducting an ongoing investigation into the murders was a statutory exception to the Tennessee Public Information Act which might have allowed our request and (2) The assertion of possession of Hales’ writings and a subsequent copyright declare stemming from that purported possession by an intervening group created a non-statutory exception to the Tennessee Public Information Act.
On July 31, 2024 we appealed the trial courtroom’s ruling to the Tennessee Court docket of Appeals. We anticipate to win our attraction.
Earlier this yr Michael Patrick Leahy vowed to proceed to train his First Modification rights after a decide threatened to carry him in contempt for publishing information tales on Audrey Hale’s manifesto.
Right here’s @michaelpleahy after at the moment’s listening to in Nashville, the place a decide had threatened to carry him in contempt.
The decide seems to have backed off the risk, and Leahy says he’ll proceed to train his First Modification rights pic.twitter.com/SwLNHgIOlJ
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) June 17, 2024
