by Eric Lendrum
On Tuesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland refused to commit to using federal resources to investigate Monday’s shooting in Nashville as a hate crime, despite the perpetrator’s clear motivations against the Christian victims.
The Daily Caller reports that the Nashville Police Department discovered “writings” in Audrey Elizabeth Hale’s home after the shooting, which suggested a “calculated and planned” attack. Addressing these reports, Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) noted during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing that the 28-year-old Hale “could have had collaborators.”
Kennedy then asked Garland if he planned on letting the FBI launch a hate crime investigation, as Hale’s identity as a “transgender man” clearly played a role in her decision to target the Presbyterian school where she used to be a student.
“As of now motive hasn’t been identified,” Garland said in response, while claiming that the FBI and ATF were working with local police. “We are certainly working full-time with them to try to determine what the motive is, and of course motive is what determines if it is a hate crime or not.”
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has denounced the shooting as a hate crime “that according to Nashville police, specifically targeted… the members of this Christian community, community, the members of this religious institution, its students, its educators, [and] its employees.”
A Nashville PD spokesman has said that they will not be releasing Hale’s manifesto while the investigation is ongoing. Far-left pro-LGBTQ groups have actively demanded that the manifesto not be released, as its release could allegedly cause backlash against the “transgender community” in Nashville.
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Eric Lendrum reports for American Greatness.
Background Photo “The Covenant School Crime Scene” by Metro Nashville Police Department.
This man is a disgusting, sorry excuse for an America citizen. Thank God he’s not on the Supreme Court. This is so obviously a hate crime committed my a mentally defective person who identifies with the LGBTQXYZ movement, which has nothing but contempt for Christians and now Tennesseans. For far too long those on the right; republicans, Christians, and conservatives have just turned the other cheek hoping this would all go away. Live and let live you know. Well, that obviously isn’t going to happen. I fear America has passed the point of no return.
Garland continues to prove he is a pawn of the left!