The truth about the Catholic High School Boys

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Looks like the indigenous veteran was the one who actually confronted the kids while they were peacefully waiting for the bus to arrive after the March for Life. When I first saw the clip, I was disgusted and wondering what these boys were trying to accomplish. Now that I’ve seen the full video of what actually transpired, it’s pretty apparent that four grown men had been verbally assaulting these kids and a group of Native American men confronted these boys and started drumming in front of their faces. They had been practicing their school cheer to drown out the four aforementioned men and when Phillips arrived (the Native American) they thought that it was all fun and games, but realized that something more serious was going on when he wouldn’t stop drumming near one of the student’s face.

He also falsely claimed that they ended up surrounding him and wouldn’t let him leave - that he had been subject to derogatory remarks and that they had been screaming “build the wall”.

Even CNN and the NY Times are backtracking from their initial reports.

Now the student at the center of this is receiving death threats.
 
Yes, even USA Today is running the story that this was Fake News!
 
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There’s a reason I don’t comment on these stories when they first break. Because almost always without fail the full story isn’t presented and the press are interested in pushing a certain narrative at the expense of journalistic integrity and waiting for the facts. And now that the full facts are coming out the press are backtracking because they can’t defend the original story.
 
Horrible slanted biased journalism is why we have Donald J. Trump in the White House, IMO.
 
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Loud-living-dogma said:
Horrible slanted biased journalism is why we have Donald J. Trump in the White House, IMO.
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If you mean to say the MSM wanted DJT as president, you’re sorely mistaken. They wanted HRC.

If you mean to say that the voters reacted against the constant stream of liberal leaning MSM and voted him in for spite, prolly not, because he didn’t win the popular vote.
 
Quite frankly, this story and the reporting just makes me more and more queasy.

You have two groups of people, who are held to higher standards than others.
Kids who go to a religious school are supposed to act better than other kids.
Native Americans have a reputation in this country for being honest and straightforward. They’re supposed to be reliable witnesses.

The media on the other hand, nobody has any expectation of honesty or non-bias.

God have mercy on us 😔
 
I don’t think anyone should be commenting on this unless they were an actual witness. The problem with these incidents is there will be many versions and each version will have people who claim to be able to substantiate their version. Unless you are there it is extremely difficult to know which version is true. I often suspect there is some truth in most versions and all are somewhat economical with the truth. I do not think when these incidents occur that any parties involved behave impeccably. There is always an instigator but the response to that is not always the most appropriate. I think as with all such incidents we are never going to get to the full truth.

It is appalling that anybody is receiving death threats. It is extremely sad that anyone thinks this incident requires such an extreme response. I am not in the USA but I get the impression there is a lot of tension in the USA between different groups in US society. I doubt the current Administration can bear the entire blame but I don’t think it helps the situation.
 
There is a 1:45:00 video on youtube clearly showing everything that happened. It clearly shows a Militant African American Evangelical group (they remind me of the WWE’s Nation of Domination where the great character of The Rock emerged from) with great foulness harassing Native Americans, the High school students, and a middle aged African American man. The students shielded a fellow African American students from the harassment of the Militant group and then they started their school chant to drown out the militant group’s vulgarities and were having a blast like normal teens would when they gather together. Then Mr. Philips’ group, who could have easily circumvented the group to get where he claims he was going, goes into the group of kids who are already dancing up a storm start dancing to the rhythms of the cool drums. Then Mr. Phillips goes right up to the kids with the MAGA hats and starts beating a drum close to the kid’s face. Now thier Dioceis issues a cowardly apology and some of these kids could be expelled from their school.

Imagine that the young man having a loud drum played in front of his face by an adult provocateur is your child. Think of the implications of this, from physical threats, school expulsions, character assassination, and long term marginalization.

My son belongs to a wonderful Catholic youth group that goes once in a while to public places like bowling alleys, trampoline parks, etc. Given the current state of things a member of an anti-catholic could jump at the opportunity tor harass them because they know they are guaranteed positive media coverage as victims.
 
It’s only a matter of time until someone innocent ends up dead because of media smears. Poor boys.
 
The diocese basically sold them out for PR, which is definitely detestable. They were so afraid of backlash they completely folded right as this became news, even after saying they were investigating the incident
 
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I wonder if all the CAFers that were condemning the boys earlier have seen this? 🤔
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Like I said, there is a reason I don’t personally comment on these high profile stories in the media. Because the press are usually incredibly lazy, or willfully ignorant and only get about to doing their jobs after someone has done it for them.
 
Absolute, this is one of the most infuriating parts. Instead of waiting to find out what happened; the diocese immediately threw the students under the bus. Those kids went to march for life, thus showing more moral courage than half of the USCCB members. Will keep them in our family prayers.
 
I see so many people making excuses or justifications for them getting death threats. I’ve even seen people on social media saying they want to punch those kids in the face. Grown adults are ruminating about punching teenagers in the face. It shouldn’t matter whether they wore Trump hats or not. Death threats against anyone are just flat out unacceptable
 
The worst attacks I’ve seen leveled against these high school kids are people comparing them to southern racists who berated black Americans at lunch counters in the 50s and 60s. That is a bridge too far, and I’m used to seeing some very harsh opinions
 
Well, the information we initially got was that the kids were taunting Phillips, which is reprehensible behavior … and yeah, even if meant innocently, the hats didn’t help. The smile/smirk that was caught on the main kid in the usual still photo very much screams “entitled white kid being a jerkwad,” which is not something Catholics want to see from our young people at the March for Life.

Phillips seems to have believed he was protecting the kids and the African-American group from each other, defusing violence. The recent statement by the main kid indicates he was attempting the same thing, and felt he was the one being confronted and provoked.

Meanwhile, the African-American group are apparently the Black Hebrew Israelites, a nutty fringe sect who, I have read, show up at every major DC event and insult everybody, like a black pseudo-Jewish version of the Westboro Baptist Church. People who attend a lot of marches and protests know to ignore them, but the Covington kids likely did not.

It looks like there may, in fact, be issues with bigotry at Covington Catholic, so this whole thing will have good results if those are examined and addressed. But if the “main kid” is telling the truth about what happened (we should be skeptical of both narratives, after all, not just the initial one), then I hope he and his fellows don’t get “thrown under the bus,” as others have said. Of course, that kid had no control over the other kids, so it’s possible Phillips is equally telling the truth when he says there were yells of “Build the wall” from the group. Unfortunately, that does not sound entirely out of character for young people in a charged situation with a person of color, and we know some of them were proud Trump supporters. (And, of course, nastier things were being yelled at them by the BHI and possibly by one of Phillips’ companions.)

If you put all the stories together, you can see how the whole thing happened even if we credit both Phillips and the main kid with sincerely peaceful intentions. But it’s important we not just cling to the version we like best and jump wholeheartedly behind “our side,” whichever side that is.
 
The only fraud here is the national media, who jumped at the chance to paint a few Catholic high schoolers as racists.
 
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