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CNN Agrees to Settle with Covington Teen Nick Sandmann in $250 Million Defamation Lawsuit

Calvin Freiburger : Jan 8, 2020  LifeSiteNews.com

"CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals' homes. CNN couldn't resist the idea that here's a guy with a young boy, with that Make America Great Again cap on. So they go after him." -Lin Wood, attorney for Nick Sandmann

[LifeSiteNews.com] At least one of the defamation suits brought against the media by pro-life teenager Nick Sandmann will not proceed to trial, as CNN agreed Tuesday to a settlement in the case. (Image: via LifeSiteNews)

Immediately after last year's March for Life in Washington, DC, the press erupted with claims that a video showed boys from a Catholic school in Kentucky 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 the boys had merely performed school cheers in hopes of drowning out racist taunts from members of the Black Hebrew Israelites fringe group.

As additional video came to light, many journalists and other public figures quickly deleted their snap condemnations of the students, while some either tried to keep the original narrative alive or refused to unequivocally retract or apologize for their initial claims, leading to various lawsuits on behalf of the boys... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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