Developing now, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019
COVINGTON TEENS, PARENTS FIGHT BACK: The Kentucky teenagers smeared by the media over a videotaped encounter with a Native American protester in Washington, D.C., last weekend are fighting back, and they reportedly could be considering taking legal action ... Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School junior at the center of the videotaped encounter, told NBC's "Today" show that he did nothing to provoke anyone and sought to calm the situation. “As far as standing there, I had every right to do so," he said in the interview. "My position is that I was not disrespectful to [Native American protester] Mr. (Nathan) Phillips. I respect him. I’d like to talk to him. I mean, in hindsight, I wish we could’ve walked away and avoided the whole thing.”
Meanwhile, some parental chaperones who witnessed the encounter say the Covington students were targeted because they were Catholics at a March for Life rally who were wearing Trump "Make American Great Again" hats. “I think they were targeted for what they stood for... which is Christianity, the right for life," parental chaperone Jill Hamlin told Fox News. "And they were singled out, and I believe, partially because of the color of their skin they were targeted.”
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, in an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson, blasted the media for an "incredible amount of bigotry" against President Trump and his supporters. "This fit the narrative of the stereotype of bigotry that they would be able to run with," Bevin said. Maybe make the type of bigotry clearer here? Against trump fans? Against Kentuckians? Etc.
Covington Catholic High School was closed Tuesday due to multiple threats. Robert Barnes, a Los Angeles-based lawyer, has reached out to several families and offered to help them pursue a lawsuit against several media outlets, according to reports.
- Leslie Marshall: Covington students are still kids -- Why did so many adults ignore that in the rush to condemn them?
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