Brent Leatherwood, the Southern Baptist Convention’s president of the church’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) and a Covenant School parent, denounced the individual responsible for leaking three pages of the Covenant School shooter’s manifesto, which were released by Steven Crowder on Monday morning.
Speaking at Woodmont Baptist Church on Monday evening, Leatherwood said, “I want to speak directly to the person who took these images and released them. You are a viper. You’re a member of the law enforcement community and you’ve released evidence in our most vulnerable moment. You’ve now allowed this woman to terrorize our family with bullets to be able to now terrorize us with words from the grave. How could you? What kind of a person does this?”
HAPPENING NOW: A Covenant School parent speaks out following the leak of some of the mass shooter's writings. -> https://t.co/UUisVUlBpU https://t.co/XDE5QmaNsh
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Leatherwood’s comments come after Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell ordered an investigation from Metro Legal on Monday to determine how the photos of the manifesto were leaked to Crowder.
Shortly after O’Connell’s investigation announcement, the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) released a statement failing to address the authenticity of leaked documents but instead claiming, “The photographs are not MNPD crime scene images.”
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) November 6, 2023
Earlier in the day, a spokesman for MNPD originally told The Tennessee Star that it “has no idea” where Crowder obtained the documents.
The developments come as sources in the Tennessee General Assembly who have seen the manifesto by MNPD have confirmed to The Star that the documents released by Crowder are indeed part of the documents authentically written by Hale obtained by MNPD.
In May, Star News Digital Media Inc., the parent company of The Star, filed two lawsuits against MNPD and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking the release of the manifesto. Both suits remain active.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
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Another liberal Democrat passing himself off as a Christian!
All great comments! The only other thing I would add is that Drake should resign. Had he released the writings immediately, as required by TN law, then this “leak” would not be being discussed right now. Instead, he is now hiding behind a law suit and waiting for the courts to force him to release them. The writings should be immediately released to serve the greater interest of the citizens of Nashville and TN at large.