Seven Nashville Police Officers on Administrative Duty Amid Investigation into Leak of Gunman's Manifesto from Covenant School Shooting

Conservative commentator's leak of shooter's manifesto targets seven law officers and sparks fierce debate over transparency and victims' sensitivity in Nashville; officials maintain the assignments are "non-punitive" and geared towards upholding the integrity of the investigation.

Seven Metropolitan Nashville Police officers have been placed on administrative assignment to protect the investigation into the unauthorized leak of pages from Audrey Hale's manifesto. Hale, a transgender former Covenant school student, murdered six people, including three children, at the school in March 2023.
Despite numerous political figures and open government advocates' demands for transparency, the manifesto had been kept from the public eye due to law enforcements' efforts and a pending lawsuit from victims' parents who pushed to keep it private to avoid further trauma.
Conservative commentator Steven Crowder obtained and published images alleged to be pages from the manifesto, sparking city-wide and national controversy. These pages suggest that Hale had a deep resentment towards 'White Christian' children.
The investigative action against the seven police officers is described as 'non-punitive' and they maintain their full police powers. However, the department has not released their names citing unfairness to them.
This development has heightened debates around state transparency, victims' sensitivity, and political narrative surrounding shootings, particularly in the context where the shooter was a transgender individual with anti-white sentiments.