As pro-life Catholic teen Nick Sandmann presses on with his defamation suit against the Washington Post, attorneys for several of his classmates have filed another defamation suit naming multiple public figures for their misrepresentations of an infamous confrontation at the January March for Life.
Immediately following the pro-life event in Washington, D.C., the press erupted with claims that a video showed boys from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School harassing Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, outside the Lincoln Memorial. But additional extended video and firsthand accounts soon revealed that Phillips was the one who waded into the group waiting for its bus and decided to beat a drum inches from Sandmann’s face, while members of the Black Hebrew Israelitesfringe group shouted racial taunts at the kids.
The kids had been performing school cheers in an attempt to drown out the harassment and did not respond to adults’ insults and abuse in kind, nor did they chant “build the wall,” as had been widely claimed.
As additional video came to light, many journalists and public figures quickly deletedtheir snap condemnations of the students. Others either tried to keep the original narrative alive or refused to unequivocally retract or apologize for their initial claims, leading attorneys representing the students to threatennumerous defamation suits.
Last Thursday, attorneys Robert Barnes and Kevin Murphy filed a defamation suit in Kentucky’s Kenton County Circuit Court against twelve public figures on behalf of eight unnamed Covington students, Law & Crimereports.
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Everyone harassed and assaulted by progs and then made out to be the perpetrator of the event needs to use this as their guidelines for pushback.
Liz Warren? Nice. This could cost her some wampum in legal fees, if nothing else....perhaps cost her dearly in the polls...time will tell!
Immediately following the pro-life event in Washington, D.C., the press erupted with claims that a video showed boys from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School harassing Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, outside the Lincoln Memorial. But additional extended video and firsthand accounts soon revealed that Phillips was the one who waded into the group waiting for its bus and decided to beat a drum inches from Sandmann’s face, while members of the Black Hebrew Israelitesfringe group shouted racial taunts at the kids.
The kids had been performing school cheers in an attempt to drown out the harassment and did not respond to adults’ insults and abuse in kind, nor did they chant “build the wall,” as had been widely claimed.
As additional video came to light, many journalists and public figures quickly deletedtheir snap condemnations of the students. Others either tried to keep the original narrative alive or refused to unequivocally retract or apologize for their initial claims, leading attorneys representing the students to threatennumerous defamation suits.
Last Thursday, attorneys Robert Barnes and Kevin Murphy filed a defamation suit in Kentucky’s Kenton County Circuit Court against twelve public figures on behalf of eight unnamed Covington students, Law & Crimereports.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
Everyone harassed and assaulted by progs and then made out to be the perpetrator of the event needs to use this as their guidelines for pushback.
Liz Warren? Nice. This could cost her some wampum in legal fees, if nothing else....perhaps cost her dearly in the polls...time will tell!
