We've received your submission.CNN has agreed to settle a multimillion-dollar defamation suit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann over the network’s depiction of his 2019 encounter with Native American activists.The teen was vilified on social media over the seemingly racially motivated footage, which showed mostly white teenage boys staring down and yelling at the demonstrators.The suit, which includes a separate $250 million claim against the Washington Post, accused the paper, CNN and NBC Universal of targeting Sandmann because of his support for President Trump.Sandmann was part of a MAGA cap-wearing group of students at an anti-abortion rally in Washington on Jan. 18 when his confrontation with 64-year-old Native American activist and ex-Marine Nathan Phillips was picked up by CNN and other news outlets. A detective agency hired by the Covington Catholic school found students blameless in the standoff with a Native American man near the Lincoln Memorial that went viral on …
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Meanwhile, Bakari Sellers, a CNN contributor, publicly mused about assaulting the 16-year-old Sandmann, and HBO host Bill Maher called him a “little prick.”CNN agreed on Tuesday to settle a lawsuit brought by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann.“This case will be tried not one minute earlier or later than when it is ready,” Sandmann’s attorney Lin Wood said of the remaining lawsuits.It is not defamatory to say the Covington students “expressed support for the President or that he echoed a signature slogan of a major political party,” CNN’s motion to dismiss claims.CNN filed a motion to dismiss the suit in May on the grounds that accusations of racism are not actionable in defamation cases because the allegation can’t be proven true or false. What if your heckler starts banging a drum in your face? Everyone who wears a MAGA hat should know that many marginalized people see the hat as a symbol of hate.Trump has provoked more organized expressions of hate as well. An investigation into an encounter between Kentucky high school students and Native American activists has found "no evidence of offensive or … At least one of these videos, it appears, was taken by an ally of Phillips. It’s a curious feature of our culture that people aggressively seek to be victimized, but here we are. Go up to the “attackers,” stand toe-to-toe with one of them and start loudly banging a drum in his face.A lot of people were making videos of the incident. At that point, Phillips emerges from the crowd and walks up to the kids with his drum. Roger J. Foys, the bishop of Covington, celebrated the report as a vindication of the students.
Yet I haven’t come across a video that shows the Covington kids chanting “build that wall,” as a Washington Post reporter claimed, much less “attacking” black people, as Phillips says.Should these kids’ lives be ruined because some of them responded to obnoxious provocation by being a bit rude themselves? Pride, Prejudice and Covington Catholic. People do that, because they know the media hand out condemnation based on perceived ranking in the victim hierarchy.If you insult someone, and that person insults you back, you don’t get to cry, “Oh my gosh, for no reason whatsoever I’ve just been insulted!”“Old Ypsilanti man” is near the top, while “privileged-looking young white male in a MAGA cap” is the absolute bottom.His interviews and the various videos of the incident paint a picture of him saying he is (a) terrified of the Catholic students yet (b) walking right up to and into their group; (a) doing his best to leave yet (b) pressing forward insistently; (a) trying to go up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial yet (b) not noticing that there is a clear path up those steps 10 feet to his right.Thanks for contacting us. Even if you’re an entitled brat.That isn’t what happened. A Year Ago, the Media Mangled the Covington Catholic Story. The kids from Covington Catholic HS in Covington, Ky., were ambassadors for causes much bigger than themselves: Catholicism and the March for Life. Phillips was the aggressor in the situation.