“I am greatly disturbed by today’s unauthorized release of three pages of writings from the Covenant shooter,” said Drake in a release “This police department is extremely serious about the investigation to identify the person responsible.”
Drake said the release of the documents showed a total disregard for Covenant families as well as the court system, which currently have control of the shooter’s journals due to litigation filed earlier this year.
“We are not at liberty to release the journals until the courts rule,” he said. “Our police department looks forward to the ultimate resolution of the litigation concerning the journals.”
[So the police are finally acknowledging that the pages are genuinely from Hale’s diary. That’s a change from yesterday, when they tried to avoid corroborating Steven Crowder’s scoop. As for the litigation, the lawsuit intends to force police and prosecutors to release the material, which should have been done months ago. Critics cite the opposition from the families of the victims, but they don’t get to decide whether evidence in crimes are made public, especially crimes that are part of public-policy debates. Information specific to family privacy can be redacted, but the diary should otherwise have been released when the investigation concluded that no other parties were involved except the dead shooter. — Ed]
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