The Kentucky schoolboy family sued The Washington Post for $ 250 million

A Kentucky schoolboy's family sued the Washington Post because of publications accusing journalists of harassing an elderly Native American activist. Plaintiffs call this slander and demand 250 to pay millions of dollars in compensation so that the newspaper "learns a lesson that it will never forget." And they were supported by Donald Trump.

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The incident, which led to accusations against a teenager, occurred on January 18, 2019, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC Medusa.

Participants of three actions faced there - the events for the opponents of abortions “March for Life” (US President Donald Trump addressed them), the march of the indigenous peoples of America and the small picket of the group black jewswho consider themselves descendants of the Old Testament Jews. Among the participants in the March for Life were students from a private Catholic school in Kentucky, including 16-year-old Nick Sandmann.

The attacks on the teenager started after the video was published, in which he was shot, as he was in a baseball cap with Trump's slogan “Make America Great Again”, facing 64-year-old Omaha activist Nathan Phillips. The activist sings and beats the drum. Sandmann, without stopping, looks at him and smiles; other schoolchildren stand around and laugh.

The behavior of adolescents was considered by many to be a manifestation of racism, hatred and disrespect for the elderly activist, as well as the embodiment of intolerance, allegedly characteristic of Trump supporters. It was noted that some students used gestures that are considered racist. how пишет CNN, several million tweets, received a video version with a caption stating that the “loser” in Trump’s baseball cap “happily annoys” the indigenous march participant.

The Washington Post in one of her publications wrotethat Sandmann "smirked" while the teenagers surrounded the Indian. Nathan Phillips told reporters that the schoolchildren were shouting "Let's build a wall!" According to him, he felt a threat from their side and wanted to leave, but Sandmann blocked his way. The school, where teenagers study, expressed regret at the incident and announced the start of the investigation.

Soon, however, attitudes began to change. New testimonies appeared - first of all, a video was shot by a group of black Jews. Judging by this record, black Jews stood for more than an hour on the street, preaching and harassing those around them, including schoolchildren from Kentucky. In particular, they called them "children of incest" and "future school shooters."

In the media made the main object attacks, Nick Sandmann. He denied the accusations in his address: according to him, having heard insults from black Jews, the schoolchildren, with the permission of the attendants, began to sing their sports anthems. Obviously, the indigenous marchers did not like this: in North America, sports clubs widely use the heritage of Native Americans in their symbolism, including songs, and the Indians are actively opposing it.

According to the teenager, Phillips began to look him in the eyes and beat the drum right in front of his face. Another activist, Sandmann said, began to say that schoolchildren should "return to Europe." “I thought that if I stood calmly and without movement, I would soften the situation. <…> At some point I smiled, because I wanted to show that I would not get angry, I would not be scared and would not let myself be provoked into a conflict, ”Sandmann said. He added that now he and his relatives are receiving threats.

Nathan Phillips argues, in turn, that it was he who tried to defuse the situation. To prevent conflict, he stood between black Jews and schoolchildren. One of the black Jews Shar Yakatas Banyamyan saidthat the adolescents themselves provoked insults in their address, as they were the first to mock African-American and Indian activists. School on the basis of the investigation announced that students did not provoke a conflict.

In the midst of the Vox scandal call his peculiar "Rorschach test": in the records of the shares at the Lincoln Memorial, different people see what they want - and this speaks more about themselves than about the incident. Actress Alyssa Milano, who launched the #MeToo campaign in 2017, compared Baseball "Make America Great Again" with a white Ku Klux Klanov cap. President Trump said that the unreasonable attacks on children are "a symbol of how evil fake news can be."

The lawsuit by Nick Sandmann’s family against The Washington Post states that the newspaper, “whose prejudice against Donald Trump is well known,” decided to lead the attack on the “innocent schoolboy.” According to the plaintiffs, the journalists did not conduct a full-fledged investigation and began to persecute him - just because he was “a white Catholic school student who wore a Make America Great Again red souvenir baseball cap.”

Как пишет The Washington Post, the interests of the student’s family are represented by five lawyers from two companies. The amount of compensation in 250 million dollars is justified by the fact that it was at this price that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013. Plaintiffs want the newspaper to "learn a lesson that will never forget."

“Come on, Nick, take them. Fake news! ”, - supported the lawsuit by US President Donald Trump.

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