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Why no White House invite for the Nashville heroes, Joe?

By
Post Editorial Board
Published March 31, 2023
Updated March 31, 2023, 5:53 p.m. ET
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Officer Michael Collazo
Nashville police officer and Marine vet Michael Collazo stormed into the Covenant School in Nashville in search of the shooter. via Reuters

Where’s the White House invitation for the hero cops who stopped deranged Nashville shooter Audrey Hale?

As bodycam footage reveals, two Nashville PD officers — Marine vet Michael Collazo and star cop Rex Engelbert — rushed the shooter with no heed for their own safety. 

They saved countless lives in the process, and deserve every imaginable commendation. 

So why the silence from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.? 

The Biden White House has never been shy in the past about inviting other brave souls. 

Brandon Tsay, the heroic civilian who disarmed the Monterey Park, Calif., mass shooter, was invited to the 2023 State of the Union address. 

Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who faced down rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, was invited this year when he received the Presidential Citizens Medal. 

For the 2022 signing of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, Biden’s big-deal gun control law, the White House invited Dayton mass shooting survivor Dion Green, the families of the victims in the 2018 Santa Fe school shooting and many others.  

Nashville PD Officer Rex Engelbert was seen at the school with Collazo.
Nashville PD Officer Rex Engelbert entered the school with Collazo. via REUTERS
A picture of the white house.
The heroes of the Nashville school shooting have not yet been invited to the White House. Shutterstock

RowVaughn and Rodney Wells, the mother and stepfather of Tyre Nichols — murdered by Memphis police officers — were guests at the same SOTU as Brandon Tsay. 

Heck, K-pop megastars BTS got invited to discuss the rising tide of anti-Asian hate in 2022. 

Collazo and Engelbert demonstrated the same valor as Tsay and Goodman.

Their story deserves as much attention as Green’s or the Wellses’.

Engelbert pointed his weapon while firing at the mass shooting suspect in The Covenant School, according to the bodycam footage.
Engelbert fired at the mass shooting suspect in the Covenant School, according to the bodycam footage. via REUTERS

And they surely have a better claim than BTS. 

But the reasons behind the White House’s cold shoulder are crystal clear. 

The shooter the two heroes took down was trans — so the Twitter wing of the Democratic Party is in full damage-control mode. 

Nashville Police Officer Rex Engelbert (left), shot down Covenant School shooter, Audrey Hale, according to reports.
Nashville Police Officer Rex Engelbert (left) shot down Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale, according to reports. Metro Nashville PD

Note the desperate effort to portray trans people generally as the real victims of Hale’s massacre, not the dead adults and children. 

And the heroes belong to a group despised by that same wing of the party: the police. 

(Unless, of course, the cops are federal and they’re busting Trumpist heads.)

Audrey Hale, allegedly shot and killed six people at The Covenant School.
Audrey Hale shot and killed six people at the Covenant School. Linkedin/Audrey Hale

While we hope fervently there’s an invite for the Nashville heroes, we suspect there won’t be. 

For our utterly cynical president, political expediency trumps every moral consideration.