Tue 28 March 2023:

A dramatic body camera video showed how Nashville police officers responded after six people were killed, including three children, in yet another brutal shooting incident in the United States on Monday. The incident occurred at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.

The video began with a police officer entering the school with rifles. The video also showed police officers firing multiple bullets at the suspect.

Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a transgender woman, was identified as the attacker by police. The reason for the shocking incident is still unknown.

The video was captured by two of the responding officers’ body cameras. It showed cops conducting a room-by-room search, and after clearing one classroom after another on the first floor, they went upstairs to the second floor and shot the suspected shooter down.

Shots can be heard seconds before the suspect comes into view and drops to the floor after apparently being shot. One officer fires additional rounds into the assailant, who appears to be moving on the ground as another officer repeatedly yells, “Get your hands away from the gun!”

Police spokesperson Don Aaron told reporters that the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said that they started receiving calls about a shooter at 10:13am (local time) and the suspect was pronounced dead by 10:27am (local time).

Nashville Police have released the bodycam footage and it cannot be stressed enough how remarkable this response was. These men are absolute heroes. pic.twitter.com/aOT8IJyH04

— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) March 28, 2023

Weapons ban

Joe Biden repeated his call for lawmakers to pass an assault weapons ban.

“I have gone the full extent of my executive authority on my own,” the president told reporters at the White House, adding that he had spoken with community members in Nashville. “I think it’s about time.

“The Congress has to act. The majority of the American people want an assault weapons ban. I can’t do anything except plead with Congress to act.”

Congressional legislation that Biden signed last year only expanded background checks for the youngest gun buyers and funded mental health and violence intervention programs.

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