Headline Roundup • November 7th, 2023
Nashville Covenant School Shooter's Journal Entries Posted Online
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Images of supposed journal entries from the shooter who killed six people at the Nashville Covenant School in March were released online Monday.
Details: The images were first released by Steven Crowder (Right bias), prompting backlash from parents who have sought to prevent their release.
Key Quotes: One photographed journal entry dated February 3, 2023, reads, “Kill those kids! Those crackers. Going to private fancy schools with those fancy kwackis + sports backpacks with their daddies mustangs + convertibles. F**k you little s**ts. I wish to shoot you weak a** d***s w/your mop yellow hair, wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little f****ts w/your white privileges f**k you f****ts.” Shortly after the photos were released, the Metro Nashville Police Department released a statement reading, “The MNPD is in communication with the Metropolitan Department of Law as an investigation, begun this morning, continues into the dissemination of three photographs of writings during an online discussion about Covenant school. The photographs are not MNPD crime scene images.”
How the Media Covered It: A number of outlets across the spectrum, from the New York Times (Lean Left bias) to Fox News (Right bias), refrained from reporting on the contents of the entries, instead focusing coverage on the leak itself, highlighting pushback from parents and local officials. Reporting on the contents of the photographed journal entries was mainly seen in right-rated outlets, such as The Daily Wire (Right bias) and The Daily Caller (Right bias).
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Desiree Rios/The New York Times
A conservative political commentator published three photographs on Monday that appeared to show excerpts from writings by the shooter who killed six people at a Nashville Christian school, enraging parents of the surviving students and prompting an investigation into the leak.
For months there has been a court battle over whether any of the assailant’s writings should be released, with the families of about 100 students who survived the shooting at the Covenant School in March having sought to prevent their publication.
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty
Conservative social media personality Steven Crowder's video containing a manifesto allegedly written by the accused shooter at Nashville's Covenant School last March has been removed by YouTube for violating community guidelines.
On Monday, Crowder posted the video, which included screenshots of the manifesto purportedly written by Audrey Hale, 28, whom authorities identified as the shooter at the school, where three children and three adults were killed. Authorities have not released any copies of Hale's alleged manifesto, but police said shortly after the shooting that they recovered writings that appeared to...
Benjamin Hendren/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The transgender-identifying killer who murdered six people at a Christian school in Nashville was consumed by leftist racial hatred targeting whites as “privileged,” according to three pages of the shooter’s diary released by podcaster Steven Crowder on Monday.
“Kill those kids!!! Those crackers going to private fancy schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertables [sic],” the 28-year-old female shooter wrote in a diary entry dated February 3.
“I wish to shoot you weakass d—ks w/ your mop yellow hair, wanna kill all you...
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