Nashville Police Chief John Drake speaks with Lester Holt regarding the deadly shooting at a local elementary school where three children and three adults were killed and what we know so far about the suspect.
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Probably abused there as a student and the trauma ruined her life
Itsall Hazy youre really answering the important questions
Making excuses for someone’s nasty mindset.
Alot that should say
Monsters need no gender… just a lead injection!
🐂💩
Mental illness is not a joke 😢😢😢
Transgender Illness you mean.
Why is it celebrated so much in this country then?
Identifying trans does not equate to mental illness asswipes
The suspect was trans, by the way.
@donut no rlly?
Manifesto… Hate crime against Christians anyone??? You can see this officer scared to go head and call a spade a spade
Alphabet people attack!
Lester taught her she has a right to go ballistic if mis-gendered
Lester?
*he
Imagine being a fly on the wall in democrat circles and news rooms as Biden went full send-red alert dementia mode today making ice cream jokes to begin his news conference on Nashville..
Imagine still wanting Trump to GRAB you by the Kitten ..riiight deb?
@rextrek lame deflection bozo. Get smarter Archimedes.
@rextrek thats a negative ghost rider pattern is full. Unrelated TDS.
I wonder if she (or he) watched The View last week where Jane Fonda said “murder” is the only response to Christian conservatives..?
This is a sinister Hate-Crime.
Transgender targets a Christian school that teaches two genders.
Perhaps it may be other things, but come on? They don’t think there is a connection?
Not a gun issue. It’s a mental health issue.
I’m looking for that “Jesus Says” troll in the comments.
Jesus says….. 👀
Whenever I watch these tragic news reports on gun violence the YouTube algorithm always recommends gun nut weapon videos!
Bet the shooter was someone from the alphabet cult.
Of course it was ANOTHER crazy trans freak. This, texas and colorado. Stop Democrats from buying guns and 99% of all shootings will stop!
I can’t wait for the LGBT community to start crying police brutality because they killed him
Stop saying she. This person was transitioning to male and using wrong pronouns will get trans people killed… I mean its linkin profile before being taken down used he/him pronouns but news reports its a female? What a clown world. A bunch of mentality ill lunatics running around. America is a joke and fastly becoming a third world. Prayers to those that died from a lunatic the system and parents failed.
To think people accept these trans people and think they’re ok and are being praised. They need to be locked up period.
ARMED GUARDS could have saved Six Lives.
Yeah and its a bunch of christian right-wingers dead so who give a crap. Good riddance. This charter school can pay for armed guards at every door if they want safety. The right to bear arms is absolute.
It’s the NEW NORM!!!! HELLO!! Be diligent not to solve it with national guard posted at every school, or quit school. Got school insurance?
Death is on the move
German and Russian territories marked BLACK hurry
If god wanted these people alive he wouldn’t have let them be gunned down in his christian school. Either these people deserved it, or they are praying to the wrong religion.
So is it a dude or a girl? I mean biologically.
@Mimi Yes, pictures
@Mazzy White So there was a chromosome test proving she was biologically female? When attending this school, of course the principal will say he remembers her as a girl. So what’s your point? Being spoon fed everything by the media? heresay?
@V Digital Media such a liberal. If it’s a girl it’s a girl. If it’s a boy it’s a boy.
Used he/him.
If it was trans why do they say female?
as a nashvillian, this really stings. one of the children that was killed was a cousin of a friend of mine. SO heartbreaking , but shout out to Metro PD for going and resolving the incident with in minutes . The call came in at 10:13 AM by 10;27 it had been taken care of it .
I’m so sorry
his eyes are red- probably from crying. my heart goes out to the families of the victims, so deeply. this woman was clearly disturbed. i’m afraid that deep in the left they will use her as a martyr for religious trauma and deep in the right for transphobic ideology. she is not a martyr, she’s a murder who terrified and killed 3 children and 3 adults, all loved, all deserving of so much more life. she is not representative of the trans community. she is sick in the head. my heart also goes out to her family, everyone involved. to the first responders on the scene, to other faculty. things need to change. it can’t keep happening. she had 3 guns. 3. that’s insane, no one needs that many, let alone someone so ill. something needs to give. you can’t keep sacrificing people, and babies.
Agreed. As a Trans man, this is a massive blow to our community. My heart goes out to all the families and friends affected by this tragedy.
I pray the left doesn’t see her as anything but the child murderer she is, and that the right focuses on the important part of all this: gun control.
You are despicable. 6 people are dead including children and you come here to get on a soapbox and make sure you defend “transgenderism” it’s a cult that mutilates and brainwashes youth. It has no legitimacy at all. These people openly believe their right to affirmation (to their lies and fantasies) supersedes your right to live, children’s right to live. They are very open about what they’re willing to do for affirmation, they brag about it. She is everything the trans community truly is. Women are going to wake up one day with zero rights, zero spaces, battered and beaten by the trans activists they defended with their life and proclaim “at least I was never transphobic..” Literally fighting to be replaced and subjugated by a violent cult that hates you.
How nice of them to give that monster what she wanted by saying her name on National Television. I’m sure they’ll have her photo up soon too.
Like most these shooters, she was suicidal and she decided to go out in infamy and NBC granted her wish and encouraged others who may do this in the future.
They deserve to have perimeter doors someone cannot shoot through! They deserve to have reliable adults who are not afraid to defend and have tactical training & that concealed carry. There may have only been none or ONE victim if there had been a responsible adult that defended. If u are in charge of kids in a school you should take the responsibility of defending those children PERIOD. That is the only way at this point to stop it. And perimeter doors that u cannot penetrate.
Trapped abused kids break dishes and kick pets
Noise!
Check yourself in to the nearest mental hospital please.
Poor chief, go take a well deserved vacation far from Tennessee, to safer country than 🇺🇸 like Japan or Italy or Canada or Madeira. Seriously, I feel safer abroad even in 3rd world countries than here. Looney lefties have given criminals free reign, and if those criminals are one of the favored victimized populations… well, killing Christians was justified ( in the woke progressive eyes) but they still wanna take guns away from law abiding citizens
I’m retired and a gun enthusiast. It would be my pleasure to guard any school in my area for free. I will happily walk the halls and make sure that the kids can learn in a safe environment
🙏
Me too. I’ll do it for 40k a year np
Robert Stone is too much a sissy to guard any school children. Sit down there and eat your cookie there, keyboard Rambo.
Yes, it’s sad but society going to need that. Not saying martial law. But every public place needs armed guards. In Canada too. I see security guns walking around no armour, no fun, no vest, just wear shirt and have a phone. A lot of good that does if you encounter a shooter. These guys just collect a paycheck. I had experience with a security guard and a girl who was smoking crack out side the store. Guy didn’t know what to do. I had to call cops. I tried to hold girl back but she took off. That guard not properly trained, they don’t and are not prepared for harsh reality of job when a situation hits. No I believe in armed guards. Not saying go ahead and shoot. But guard s with weapons , can be intimidating. It shows punks they are prepared. This has to stop. In US and Canada.
We cant afford it…2.6 billion for gender studies
Transgender rage.
That doesn’t exist. Grow up, uneducated Commie.
Hate crime
He looks exhausted and like he has shed more than a few tears today. It must be so hard, even with decades of experience, to see children so young die so brutally.
You guys realize kids are shot every day in Chicago with handguns? The problem isn’t guns, it’s criminals. You’re not touching the second amendment.👌🇺🇲
I mean most to all the legislation being pushed is to help keep guns out of criminals hand’s, but yeah keep clutching your pearls and using those kids in Chicago as scapegoats.
🇺🇸 come and take them. 🦅
Exactly.
I already knew what race she was well before they revealed it.
Only because of location
Majority of mass shooters are of color
We don’t need to hear about all this not important please send more money to Ukraine 😁
I was hoping that we’d have the first female school shooter. But we have a psycho path weirdo posing as a female. Pathetic. Round up all the weirdos and lock them up.
All of the people here talking about the school that should have been more secure, or mental illness that is not dealt with.. that is all good and well, but if this woman didn’t have access to guns, this wouldn’t happen. As an European living in Asia, it just blows my mind, this doesn’t ever happen elsewhere. The number one cause of children’s deaths in the US is fire guns. Your country is the bratty teen, shouting ‘freedom’ for no reason, while other older countries roll their eyes in disbelief, are you aware of that? There’s no freedom in living in fear of going to SCHOOL, of sending your kids to SCHOOL.
So from the bottom of my heart: screw your freedom and screw your right to own guns. Your babies are dying. Check your priorities.
@johnny4713 wow thanks for taking the time to “educate” me John. Unfortunately most of your arguments are whataboutisms and I honestly don’t have the time or patience to refute them at the moment. Nor am I here to change your or anyone else’s mind. Just some foreign perspective on a very serious and terrifying issue. All I will say is that the damage you can inflict with a knife is significantly less than what you can do with a gun. And there are mental health issues everywhere in the world, alas the US is the only country that has school shootings every other month. Food for thought.
The statistics you cite are invalid BS. Do you think the US should transition to school stabings like they have in Asia?
MeriKKKa is the SCHITHOLE COUNTRY you’ve heard sooo much about, with SPECIAL THANKS to republicans for the EXTRA SCHITHOLINESS ! MeriKKKa where we ALLOW 60,000+ Americans to DIE Every Year for LACK of healthcare and Medications they CANT Afford and No one cares….. …MeriKKKa where we have over 40+MILLION with NO HEALTHCARE at all and No One cares………. MeriKKKa where we have MILLIONS of HOMELESS Nationwide and No One cares… MeriKKKa, where ALL Repubs and the Corporate Dems ( NOT Progressives ) passed an $800+BILLION One YR Military Budget… yet we Average citizens getting Begged calls from VET GRPS ask for DONATIONS to HELP with VET CARE??? ………..WTF is ALL that Gdammed MOney going??? NO ONE Ever asks….Riiiight MSM???!!!!! …..and Again to Top it off , No Money for Child Day Care for working Mothers, No Dental, Eyecare, or Hearing aids for Seniors….. Merikkkka IS the Certified SCHITHOLE .. .with thanks also, to about 40% of Our Nation of Garbage People, Uninformed Morons , Racist, haters, Bigots….who constantly Vote against their own interests…. so glad I dont have kids and more years behind than ahead
A gun didn’t do this, a freak did this. If they drove their Honda Fit through the walls of the school and killed 6 people, we wouldn’t be calling for a ban on automobiles. Get real and think with your head. Legally owned guns are not the issue.
The problem about outlawing guns that you guys don’t realize is that guns are still in circulation in the Usa now regardless if they are legal or not. When you outlaw guns its not like they just magically poof. You have to take them, TAKE THEM. And even if you do the criminals will be the ones to still have them.
Transgender terrorist
Did she target people in the school? Ya think?! C’mon Lester.
YU ES EY! YU ES EY!💪💪 perfect country like they say😁
You say that the shooter identifies as trans but don’t present any evidence proving that case. Sounds like the police is trying to blame the Trans community for the lack of gun safety and regulations…
Hate crime
Tragedy is so close that I face the world in silence.
When will these teachers start taking the childrens safety seriously again. Back in the day when teachers were armed these schootings never happened.
Thank you first responders
I like it because it’s informative. So sad.
https://youtu.be/pGmh5UpJ2Pg
What an evil & confused person.
What a horrible thing we are witnessing.
This is a deep rooted spiritual issue which only manifest itself in evil such as this. But the root of the issue is a nation that mocks and rebels against the only true God. This has happens over and over again in Scripture (2Chronicles 15:5-7) But of course no one cares about The Word of God.
But the ONLY way the fixed this is to turn back to the one and true God of the Bible .
The power of REPENTANCE 🔥
religion – making MORE ATHEIST everyday Thank Goddess, Zeus
@rextrek i agree I hate religion as well because it’s robs people of a true relationship with our father
Lol if she wasn’t a transgender they would be trying to say that this was another “Alt right Maga extremist”.
Instead I GAURENTEE you won’t hear anything about her being transgender from any of the MSM.
My heart aches for the world that our children are inheriting 😢 in so sorry for all the affected families.
But trans people are still safe right?
nobody died
Call it what it is. He was a transgender Democrat party terrorist. Nothing more.
Observe yet another result when the second amendment prevents legislators from creating an effective regulatory environment! Silence the second: 1.5 sentences of twee, sentimental, and evidently dangerous twaddle left by dead ancestors to visit not freedom, but chaos, terror, trauma, death, and misery upon, and paranoia among, the lives of their living descendants. Repeal of the second is a must for *it is the cause* of this carnage.
The cause of this carnage was a trans 28 year old who acquired a firearm and entered and shot up a school. Not the firearm. If you run over a pedestrian in your car you don’t ban automobiles
@David Dyer
You said: “The cause of this carnage was a trans 28 year old who acquired a firearm and entered and shot up a school. Not the firearm. If you run over a pedestrian in your car you don’t ban automobiles”
I say: I would agree to this if it were generalised to the following point observed in all shootings. It has become too common to see Americans with problems pick up firearms and create something infinitely worse.
You don’t ban automobiles, but you do regulate their usage to people who have demonstrated their ability to use them properly. So,, you simply do the same with guns.
However, while the second remains in the constitution to force the Supreme Court to treat guns as a sacred taboo, effective regulation of guns is going to continue to be problematic. The People will have to remove this taboo before legislation can prove effective.
Guns aren’t a sacred taboo. Guns keep this country from being invaded by foreign nations. This country was founded because the country they left aka Britain was a tyrannical monarchy. Guns made this country. Guns keep this country from becoming Mexico or Venezuela. The problem in this country isn’t guns it’s definitely mental health.
@Owen Thomas if you don’t like haveing a constitution that’s protects your rights then move to China 😊
I see that there were another two posts before this one that aren’t being published, however I cannot see what was written. It might be cathartic to unleash the hounds upon my opinion, but if you want me to receive them, you’re going to have to keep your invective acceptable to Youtube’s publishing standards. x
Why shoot children ? What did they do?
She reopened her eyes to looking s a t a n right in the face.
This was a Anti- Religious Hate crime by a transgender … Who hate religion in a lot of cases….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nitH50C5K6k …
Certain politicians are more worried about Drag Queens and TikTok being a danger to children, but make zero effort to change gun laws to prevent mass shootings such as this one
Tiktok is being used to dumb down our youth so china military can be more powerful and destroy us one day. Guns will be your only self defense against this invasion.. your comment is incredibly flawed
America a land where a weapon lobby has more Power than the Citizens of the Country. Where the Capitalism is above reason. Thanks god i life in Europe
So……….anyone tomato bring up this was a transgendered person targeting Christians, 3 of them 9 year olds? It’s open season now. You want a civil war, you got one.
Another Hate Crime , but government/ Media Won’t say this—– 🙏🙏🙏 for Families
Tell us more about her first target location and why she chose not to do that one.
They know exactly what would have detered her but refuse to say it.
Yeah whatever you do let’s not release that manifesto that probably proves the hatred toward Christians because they don’t obey the atheist homosexual militant religion.
Release the manifesto
Here you go folks. https://youtu.be/EFiSclB9Q3c
another staged event to get your guns
No definitely a hate crime committed by the left
Hate crime plain and simple
I want the manifesto made public.
Be nice to have our schools guarded but we want to spend money on gender studies….2.6 billion are we learning yet?