Two Republican congressmen sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that the DOJ open a hate crime investigation into the Nashville private Christian School shooting.
Karine Jean-Pierre calls out 'Republicans in Congress' following deadly attack in Nashville, Tennessee.are demanding that the Department of Justice investigate Monday's shooting that left six dead at a private Christian school in Nashville as a hate crime.
Hale, a 28-year-old transgender who was a former student at The Covenant School, was killed after she began firing at responding officers. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, and Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn. said that the Department of Justice needs to open a hate crime investigation into the shooting at The Covenant School.
"Federal law is clear, acts of violence against individuals based on religious affiliation are hate crimes," Gooden and Ogles wrote in the letter."The [shooter] was a former student at Covenant school and specifically chose to terrorize this school because of their Christian faith. It is appalling that you have not yet committed to opening a hate crime investigation despite the shooter’s motive being as clear as day," they wrote.
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