U.S. Attorney General, Loretta Lynch
said that the FBI would release a partial transcript of conversations
between Orlando Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen and the police. Omar killed 50 people and injured several others at the gay club in Orlando during a gunfight with the police.
The transcripts, however, will not include his declaration of
loyalty to the Islamic State. “These are the calls with the Orlando PD
negotiating team, who he was, where he was,” Lynch said on MSNBC.
“What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of
allegiance to terrorist groups, and further his propaganda.”
James Comey, the director of the FBI, has said that Mateen made three phone calls with police during the massacre, the Washington Post reports.
The transcripts will be redacted “to avoid re-victimizing those people
that went through through this horror,” Lynch said on CNN. “But it will
contain the substance of his conversations.”
“It’s been our goal to get as much information about this
investigation into the public domain as possible,” Lynch said. “So
people can understand, as we do, possibly what motivated this killer,
what led him to this place and also provide us with more information.”
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