"Due to pending litigation filed this week, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department has been advised by counsel to hold in abeyance the release of records related to the shooting at The Covenant School pending orders or direction of the court," the department wrote on Twitter.
Three appeals were filed in recent weeks demanding the release of the shooter's manifesto, the Tennessean reported:
So, due to the pending lawsuits trying to force you to release the manifesto, your attorney advised you to...not release the manifesto?
How does that make any sense? You either aren't going to release it, in which case the lawsuits will determine whether the court will order you to release it. Or you are going to release it, in which case you just do it and the lawsuits become moot and go away.
That statement falsely makes it sound like the lawsuits are the reason they're not releasing it.
They probably were going to release a heavily redacted or edited version and their lawyers said "wait you can't do that because we'll probably have to release the entire thing from one of these lawsuits."
So, due to the pending lawsuits trying to force you to release the manifesto, your attorney advised you to...not release the manifesto?
How does that make any sense? You either aren't going to release it, in which case the lawsuits will determine whether the court will order you to release it. Or you are going to release it, in which case you just do it and the lawsuits become moot and go away.
That statement falsely makes it sound like the lawsuits are the reason they're not releasing it.
They probably were going to release a heavily redacted or edited version and their lawyers said "wait you can't do that because we'll probably have to release the entire thing from one of these lawsuits."