Police will release abridged transcripts of their calls with the Orlando shooter

A mourner of the Orlando nightclub shooting
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Law enforcement will release limited transcripts of their phone conversations with Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Sunday.

"They will talk about what he told law enforcement on the ground as the events were unfolding," Lynch explained in an interview with CNN. "The reason why we're going to limit these transcripts is to avoid re-victimizing those people that went through this horror," she added, "but it will contain the substance of his conversations."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.