In one of the clips shows that Nicholas came close to playing on the drum to the Indian and smiling intently looking at him
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The US President Donald trump on Wednesday expressed support for the American schoolboy Nicholas Sandman, whose parents, on his behalf, filed a lawsuit in the amount of $ 250 million against the newspaper The Washington Post, accusing her of defamation.
“Student [Catholic schools] Covington is suing The Washington Post. Show ‘ em, Nick. False news!” – wrote the head of state on his Twitter page. He also quoted the words of the young man that The Washington Post “has ignored basic journalistic standards because they wanted to promote their well known and easily documented biased agenda against President Donald trump”.
In January, the newspaper published an article in which he described how a representative of the indigenous peoples of America and a veteran of the Vietnam war, Nathan Phillips came into confrontation with a group of young people from school Covington (Park hills, Kentucky) when he sang and played the drum in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Young people wore caps with the inscription Make America Great Again (“let’s Make America great again”) is a slogan used by trump during his election campaign of 2016, reports TASS. Phillips reported that, when the students, among whom was the Sandman approached, they began to mock him and other residents with Indian roots, 18 Jan took part in the March of indigenous peoples, says NBC4 Washington.
“Go back to the reservation, a full-blooded Indian,” – said the students, according to Phillips.
16-year-old Nicholas and his family deny it, accused the newspaper of harassment and require huge compensation. Sandman also claims that his family threatened with death.
The school of Covington conducted an internal investigation and also came to the conclusion that the students did not provoke the conflict with the Indians near the Lincoln Memorial. However, in the Catholic diocese of Covington has condemned the actions of the students and apologized to Phillips, writes BuzzFeed News.
Meanwhile, the conflict Phillips with teenagers was filmed on camera and posted on Twitter. Then there are other videos, representing more complex and ambiguous picture of what happened. In one of the clips shows that Nicholas came close to playing on the drum to the Indian and smiling intently looking at him. The behavior of the student can be called geeky and arrogant, but definitely not aggressive.
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Interests suspected xenophobia teenager and his parents is law office from Kentucky Hemmer DeFrank Wessels. Lawyers estimated the moral damage at $ 50 million, and another $ 200 million demand as a penalty. The total amount of the claim corresponds to the amount paid for the acquisition of The Washington Post, Amazon founder Jeffrey Bezos in 2013. Thus, the authors claim seek literally to destroy the famous newspaper with a nearly 150-year history, the journalists of which received 47 Pulitzer prizes.
Add the scandal of a quarrel of the Indians with the students and “one-sided” presentation of information by the newspaper the Washington Post is playing into the hands of the President of the United States Donald Trump, who dislikes the media for “attacks” in his address and the manufacture of “fake” news.