Nick Sandmann's Lawyers: Washington Post is Trying to 'Whitewash Its Wrongdoing'

Martin M. Barillas : Mar 5, 2019
LifeSiteNews.com

The attorneys said that despite the Post's claim of having "provided accurate coverage," the paper "made no effort to retract and correct the lies it published"...

[LifeSiteNews.com] On Monday, attorneys representing Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann said that they will "double down" in their lawsuit against the Washington Post for its failure to apologize for erroneous coverage that led to mischaracterizations and death threats against their client. (Image: Activist Nathan Phillips confronting pro-life teen Nick Sandman/via LifeSiteNews)

On Friday, the Washington Post issued an editor's note regarding its coverage of the incident in which students from Covington Catholic High School were confronted by Native American activist and leftist Nathan Phillips following the 2019 March for Life.

The note came after the newspaper was hit with a $250 million lawsuit by attorneys L. Lin Wood and Todd McMurty, who are representing Sandmann, the Covington student who was subjected to death threats after erroneous reports about his role in the incident went viral.

Sandmann became the subject of false accusations of racism after a selectively edited video emerged from the confrontation that purported to show the Covington boys harassing Phillips. Sandmann was wearing a red "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) cap; some media reports incorrectly said the Covington boys were chanting "build the wall." Additional video footage soon debunked that narrative. It revealed that Phillips had approached the boys and beaten his drum inches from Sandmann's face, and other adults were shouting racial taunts and insults at the kids. The teens did not return the abuse in kind, and were chanting school cheers to drown out the harassment as they waited for their bus to pick them up.

The Washington Post nevertheless ran with the original narrative depicting Sandmann and his classmates as the racist agitators, something Sandmann's lawsuit says the newspaper did as part of its "war against the president." The newspaper ran seven articles smearing Sandmann and containing defamatory and false information, his attorneys contend... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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