Posted on 08/06/2019 6:26:57 PM PDT by marshmallow
August 5, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — 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 Israelites fringe 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 deleted their 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 threaten numerous 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 & Crime reports.
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Go for the jugular, baby!
(legally speaking)
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.
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Good luck to the students!
May God Bless these kids!
Liz Warren? Nice. This could cost her some wampum in legal fees, if nothing else.
Amen! Fight lawfare with lawfare. Money and power is all the Left respects.
I’m not sure where these suits are going, especially since Nicholas lost the first round against the Compost.
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