All 90 pages of Nashville transgender shooter Audrey Hale was launched by The Tennessee Star on Tuesday.
You may obtain Audrey Hale’s manifesto 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 year.
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 in search of 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 almost 4 dozen pages of Hale’s writings from a supply aware of the investigation. The March 11, 2023 entry revealed her intense want 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 want to have a penis for heterosexual intercourse, in line with The Tennessee Star.
After threats of imprisonment, The Tennessee Star published 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 completely happy. I’m meant to die”
“No brown women, no love”
“Brown love is essentially the most stunning sort”
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 completely happy. I’m meant to die”
“No brown women, no love”
“Brown love is essentially the most stunning sort” 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 unsuitable!!!”
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 depart this world! You [and] your folks will likely 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 aware of 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’ve documented an enormous failure of the psychological well being system as a root reason behind Hale’s reprehensible actions,” Leahy added.
In a statement launched on Tuesday, Leahy stated, “We’ve 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 discuss with as The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal to differentiate it from the numerous journals written by Hale previous to 2023 – in early June of 2024 from a supply aware of the MNPD investigation. We imagine it to be genuine. Along with our perception, the journal was confirmed as authentic in court by a Metro Nashville Authorities lawyer in attendance at a June 2024 court docket listening to, and in a court filing 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 inside the Metro Nashville Davidson County Authorities, that they launch all of the writings of Audrey Elizabeth Hale that they had obtained as a part of their investigation into the March 27, 2023 murders. Metro Nashville Authorities denied that request one day later on April 25, 2023, and in May 2023 we filed suit 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 Choose 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 Choose Myles with all of Hale’s writings obtained by means of their investigation for her in-camera evaluation. On July 4, 2024, Choose Myles released her decision 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 court docket’s ruling to the Tennessee Court docket of Appeals. We anticipate to win our attraction.
Earlier this 12 months Michael Patrick Leahy vowed to proceed to train his First Modification rights after a choose threatened to carry him in contempt for publishing information tales on Audrey Hale’s manifesto.
Right here’s @michaelpleahy after right now’s listening to in Nashville, the place a choose had threatened to carry him in contempt.
The choose seems to have backed off the menace, and Leahy says he’ll proceed to train his First Modification rights pic.twitter.com/SwLNHgIOlJ
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) June 17, 2024
