Covington Catholic could expel students who taunted Native American man in viral video

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The Kentucky high school students seen in a video mocking a Native American man at a march in Washington, D.C., could be expelled.

 

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For all of you people defending these MAGAts CovingtonBoys CovingtonCatholicHighSchool

For all you people defending these MAGAts covingtonboys CovingtonCatholicHighSchool

The boys are innocent!

Lyndablooms “appropriate action” is so relative.🙄

I hope this kid's future employers see this video before they hire him.

They should, I believe it when it happens! I bet this is not the first time he😪 has done this!

That’s stupid. Look at the whole video

BS news!

Slap on wrist. Or. Give kid award

You need to get your story straight! They interviewed that vet and he was actually standing in between the boys and someone who was heckling them. Fake news!

False flag

Parents too? Administrators who were there?

raretakis and Billy_Kobin where’s the correction to this storyfakenews.

Trump is not making America great. He is making America hate ImpeachTrumpNow

Ok seriously the Native American man is NathanPhillips, Omaha elder and US veteran. Thank you!

Which mean suing those who posted false stories. I see this news org has no problem posting incorrect stories, but has a big problem reporting the other side of the story.

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Our society is very quick to expel and convict black and brown 'kids', yet use that excuse if their white. Over and over again. Almost as if he'd been black it would have been justified to shoot him for blocking this mans way.

Hope so..

Awesome - You had the false story up and running just like every other MSM sleaze monger - Now that the tides have turned no retraction, no apology just more fake news. Clean up your damn act NYTimes CNN

Fake news USA Today, keep lying !

Actually, it was Black Israelites, watched their own 1:45 hour video of them spewing hate while Catholics were peaceful and seemed more confused by their racism and attacks. Catholics did nothing wrong here. Time for a retraction. FakeNews StandWithCovington

Did you look at the video. An adult approached a young man. And the young man stood there. And because he is catholic and wearing a MAGA hat then it’s a story!

Could...lmk when it's past tense

No to expulsion

How about apologizing for wrong reporting. Awful

Barnes_Law add to the list.

Yeah but not after they see the entire video.

Good, they should.

So they get medals?

That you continue to push this story tells me you have no regard for facts or truth.

Taunting? From what I saw. The boys were approached by the Native American men and one got right in the face of that boy. In all seriousness who was taunting who here?

Good

you are so short of facts. time to stop, research, confirm, and Start over, with an apology.

Show the WHOLE video. Turns out the “indigenous “ man hassled the kids. The partial video shown is typical of the dishonest media and their manipulation of the facts to fit their agenda.

What about everyone standing by not saying a word to the little asshole? That’s what we should all be concerned with...

Being a disrespectful shit has its own rewards

Fake News just like BuzzFeed

Pssst more data

Taking appropriate action would be bringing a lawsuit against Nathan Phillips and every “news” source that perpetuated this lie against the kids and their school.

This story has been debunked. There was no wrongdoing by the Covington boys. Watch the videos and issue an apology.

Greg_BHCSports Show the entire situation as it unfolded. Don’t perpetuate liberal media bias and fake news!

I had hoped you would have printed a retraction to this LIE by now..instead you keep running this BS!! You will be responsible if any harm befalls these kids because of your lies. StopLyingandPrintARetractionNow BiasedMSM FakeNewsMedia CovingtonCatholicHighSchool

Not 'could'. Will expel.

Irresponsible 'journalism'.

No action needed! The boys are being egregiously and falsely accused. Watch the following video. A left-leaning commentator who exonerates the boys. Several minority Catholic students are called racial slurs. Watch to the end!

BuzzFeed news here.

Expell the parents of this group of future white nationalists! Pretty obvious that the kids got this attitude problem from home!

They need to understand that horrible actions have consequences.

Let’s see what really happens.

Your just another fake news outlet.

They should be sued by these kids

USAtodayIsTrash

Hope they do!!

They should start with an apology.

Let’s see theses boys didn’t say anything the NA approach the boys hmmm nothing on video shows any disrespect just the liberal media using children to push their warped agenda

The spin has begun to make these kids look like victims, what a joke

usatoday when u print a correct headline an adult walked into a group of youth & taunted them drumming in their face due to disagreeing with their hats , youth showed restraint

FAKE NEWS, this video is proof.

Native Americans had permit. Snotty kids wouldn't move and chanted build the wall. I can tell you the point size assholes in this scenario.

For what? They did nothing wrong. He approached them clearly. You owe them and everyone else an apology for more fake news!

So, a huge apology, just as public as their condemnation? And firing of the faculty that did the condemning without the facts?

For what?

Here's what action Covington Catholic should be talking:

This story is a lie. 'Several groups of adults harass kids wearing maga hats' is what video shows actually happened. Investigate before you lie.

Appropriate action in this case would be to apologize publicly to the boys

Covington Catholic....

If that was my kid I'd send them to a boarding school in North Korea

That’s before they saw the WHOLE VIDEO!!!!! You are fake 💩 news!!

Retract. The students are thinking of suing because the whole thing was a setup and lie.

I'm sure once they watch this video they will stand behind their kids! It's well worth the time to watch in its entirety WHEN WILL MSM RETACT THEIR ORIGINAL STORY AND APOLOGIZE? WE ARE WAITING!

CovCathColonels your students and staff are trash!

The kids did nothing wrong don't ruin these kids lives. Retract your comments and tell the truth

Wonder what CovingtonCatholic considers 'appropriate action' 🤔

News sources need to post truthful articles with the whole video of what really happened and apologize to those kids that were shown unnecessary hate on a field trip that could have been a great life lesson instead of issues they never deserved to be put in the middle of!

Full footage shows the students did nothing wrong. Bigger issue here is how failed to do thorough journalism before running false stories on this subject.

This is why so many Americans don't believe MSM anymore. MSM purposely misreports the truth

How about posting the full video and stop bullying a bunch of 13 year olds. SMH

If they don’t drop to their knees and beg the people they insulted forgiveness, then they are hypocrites and should give up the religious nonsense which they obviously don’t follow. God is really beginning to dislike catholics.

You are reporting news that matches your narrative. Please try to get it right sometimes. Your wrong on this one.

It’s disgraceful to act like that and they believe in God or perhaps do they think Jesus proud of such actions... it’s understandable why Jesus said that not all who would call his name will be heard!!!

action for showing restraint while being taunted by the drummer guy ? they should get a hug & get told nice job staying calm

Why? Right or wrong that’s a freedom to protest is protected by the constitution!

I think USA Today and other media outlets should be sued for defamation and printing something without knowing the facts. The video shown is a tiny piece and does not show the fact the students were the one's mocked and provoked.

The school should take action. The involved students need to be expelled. Period! Makes me just sick.

REALLY!?! 🚨🤬🤦🏽‍♀️🚨 The CovingtonShame is that CovingtonCatholicHighSchool admin and the parents of the students; actually condone and enable this behavior! That is why they sent them to MarchForLife with MAGA hats! That’s also why their adult chaperones did not intervene!

How about against the adults that should be supervising them.

Oh, you updated your earlier post. backlash? GTFOH

The smirk was the least offensive thing BY FAR! The slurs the men shouted were shocking! (Time stamps 8:40, 11:30, 29:25, 26:35, 36:50, 43:55, 46:58, 47:55, 1:01:15, 1:08:45 etc.) Kudos to the people of all colors who tried to reason with these agitators.

You judge

Where were the staff?

TweetsThatDidntAgeWell

THIS STORY HAS BEEN DEBUNKED!!! Please retract this story out of fairness! Why is it up? Check my timeline. There have now been 2 hours of film evidence released showing this media narrative is false (I list 13 falsehoods demonstrated by hard video evidence). It is FakeNews !

This is been exposed for fake news long before you posted it... but that doesn't stop USA Today from their propaganda....

To bad it was a lie! ApologizeToCovingtonCatholic the boys are the ones who were approached!

There are a set of appropriate actions to be had her. 1) Expulsion 2) Diversity in the staff 3) Needed dialogue with parents. This school may have unwanted students/parents. Those who see nothing wrong with the actions of these students

Obviously USA Today has no writers working this weekend. They continue to send out same 3 fake news stories on this over and over instead of correcting them. 🙄

Could Expel (as if thinking about it) or Would Expel (as an affirmative reaction)?

Terrible. Not catholic like

Right, because we can totally trust Catholic institutions to investigate themselves.

They should be expelled without question!

What? Make the say ten 'Hail Mary's'?

Don't expel the kids. Instead address the underlying problem of entitlement and disrespect towards others. Their actions were horrific. But the Catholic Church didn't expel sex-abusing priests for decades. So why the rush to expel a kid? Teach him instead.

Expel the entire class. The only strong message.

That means he won’t be disciplined

Expel them all that’s not what makes aAmerica great at all!

Are you as “America’s Newspaper” going to retract?Are yall going to address your “non-truthful” article or will you be Monday morning BuzzFeed the new “ Grocery check out” paper

Hope they watch the ENTIRE video first..

Anal for every boy there 🤣

They need to watch more closely!

Just hicks

They better

FakeNewsMedia

It’s my understanding that these protesters targeted the students and the full video tells another story.

This is unforgivable and not the behavior of most MAGA supporters. These boys need to be held accountable for their actions and restitution by way of Community Service on a Reservation and learn their history.

Watch drumming Indian get in his face

It starts with the parents and the chaperones. Those are the adults that are responsible for instilling these horrible beliefs into these children.

And what appropriate action will that be? Those boys should never have been at that rally in the first place...

Looked to me like the Native American man wanted to engage the students.

I would sue the shirt out of that school if they expel

appropriate action is EXPULSION! white entitlement as usual

Stop your madness! These kids were being kids and the Natives moved in to quell the rhetoric. If they had been wearing no hats nothing would have been reported. Grown adults triggered by hats.

Can you show the taunting? I have not seen it

They freaking better!! People are like oh we need to see the whole video... Um no you dont it only takes a couple of minutes to see that this kid was being disrespectful and his friends too. We can go kids will be kids, they need to learn consequences😒

Not after they’ve seen the video.

factcheck

BUZZ FEED Wrong AGAIN

They did nothing wrong

They didn’t do anything. Has the school watched the video?

Covington Catholic High School: Principal Robert Rowe E-mail: browecovcath.org Telephone: (859) 491-2247 Diocese of Covington: Phone: 859-392-1500 Email: infocovdio.org Diocesan Board of Catholic Education Superintendent, Michael Clines E-mail: mclinescovdio.org

What is the updated absolute true story?

Reason 2,392,842,863 why USA Today has fallen as a trusted news source the past 20 years.

What is appropriate?

Believe it when I see it!

KNOW THE FACTS!!!!

Kids were all acting like a bunch of jackasses. The maga hats I have no problem with as people wear what they want. Disrespectful behavior towards others is shameful. Where were the chaperones. They’re the biggest jackasses.

Micheal Hodge has been misidentified. He is an amazing kid who would never behave this way. You would be hard pressed to find a nicer family. He was in Ky for his brothers wedding. Please delete.

Don’t expel them, deport them all to russia. They’ll fit right into that govt

'Completely different angle. I'm sorry for judging this kid.' via RightGlockMom

I really hope they start with a Pep rally bonfire and burn those racist MAGA hats!

Please clarify what appropriate means Catholic Church and affiliates haven’t been to good at that in the past

Undeniably, we know what that hat stands for! Don’t make it seem that wearing that hat is so innocent. It says make America great again. What do you mean by making it great again? It’s always been great! Thanks to ALL individuals. NATIVES & immigrants from all over the world!

Are you and `TIME Magazine` in collusion, USA TODAY? There are less than 4 minutes between both your tweets!!! x

Yet ANOTHER Glance Continuing AMERICAN History. 4 those excuse-makers who lie/deny/& get upset 4 being called out--& not just THESE kids but ALL of the hateful racists. Let's just call it what it is-HATEFUL AMERICAN RACISM! We KNOW who u represent & WHO represents u. ShameOnU

Careful usatoday you might find yourselves on the liability case that is coming. False narrative to demonize some high school students that were waiting for their bus. Now that there is plenty of video evidence that shows what really happened some people are about to get sued!

Covington School should be held legally responsible for the actions of its students and the adults who allowed those students to violate the civil rights of anyone.

Watch the videos. The kids did nothing wrong!

Covington kids were wrong from the jump. They went to the Indigenous Peoples March to cause trouble w/ their MAGA hats, knowing damn well Trump cares nothing about non-WASPs. They could've peacefully walked by, but they're too privileged and entitled to just leave people alone.

Show the complete video. Things rarely are as they seem.

So many dopes in these replies

Maybe some sensitivity training

CBCNews SAID THE BOY WAS JUST STANDING EXTREMELY CLOSE

WHAT IS APPROPRIATE ACTION?

Yea,3 Our Fathers and 1 Hail Mary.

And close the damn school. CloseCovCath

Fake news!

Why are you still running this story

Please stop spreading false information about kids who did nothing wrong

Fake news .. AP Reports they were singing with the Man . The man stated he enjoyed it .. crazy how the Media is running a destabilizing campaign on our own government .. and people are blind to see it

The fact that these teenage boys didn’t let the birds fly or yell “F off” says a lot. They didn’t do anything wrong

So gross!

Now, this is funny!

Wow didnt expect them to respond or do anything about their priviledge students. Lets hear what about what they will do.

Shame on you

one would hope the parents would take advantage to this teachable moment. Oh wait these trump fans, mom & dad are probably proud of their kids being a$$-wipes, if you look up to trump you probably have no core vaules

Let’s send boys and parents back to their homelands

It appears as though activists are trying to make an issue from very little.

Those kids did NOTHING wrong.

They all need confession and a good rap on the knuckles.. Where is The Nun

That hat stands for so much lately, it’s undeniable! It stands for hate, bigotry, racism! Accept it! Why does everybody try to make it an innocent move? It is what it is!

If you watch the uncut video the drum guy started the confrontation and the kids were just having fun.

These students need to be taught not to engage with with those spewing vitriol (e.g., the street preachers whose invective you can see in the *full* video (If the kids had behaved more like the Native American elder, none of this would have happened.

Appropriate action would be to tell them great job for not approaching on the black street preachers or the native Smerican drummer

Yea, same way the Catholic Church took care of the priests molesting children.

They needed adults to watch over them and tell them that wearing that stupid hat was not a good idea in the first place! Duh!!

Yeah what’s that? Pizza party.

They can be actors the indian and Guys with the Red Hats of the MAGA to Creat Controversy..We Trump supporters Know history and we Love our Indigenous people they came first than Us

full video of what happened

It doesn't matter who walked up on whom, the teachers and chaperones should have shut it down.

Watch the entire video. Media is unjustly attacking this group of kids. Let me say that again- this group of KIDS.

Appropriate will be to send that Idiot to live five years in a Native Reservation!..

How about their parents taking appropriate action too. Have them volunteer with a non profit that provides services to those in need. respect kindness Diversity

I'd rather see them do better to educate these boys than expel.

This story is false. You are now crossing into actual malice lib media .

I watched the whole video. The teens did nothing wrong. They were acting like teens. The left is distroying these kids for their narrative. Pretty fucked up.

Liar and proven fake news as usual

they should...

Now that social media has ruined a boy’s life based on a short video clip, it turns out the boy wasn’t the instigator, though his behavior still not good. But we can trust that the news networks who vilified the kid will not clear this up.

Stop lying about the story libs

Yeah right

Take this BS down!! The kids did NOTHING wrong. You would know that if you bothered to actually check the facts, DISGUSTING!!!

Be careful . Covington Catholic is now saying it is considering sueing media outlets spread fake story about their students.

anything less then expelling them would be a shame.

If you people would do your research...you would know this is not what happened.

A Catholic school boy marched for little unborn babies, He was confronted by a man beating a drum in his face .. The young man stood there an awkward look on his face cause what else could he do

Give them the truth fakenews

Hopefully it is to prosecute the people who created this. The kids did nothing. It is a dangerous time to be a Catholic supporter of the President. MAGA hat? Who doesn’t want America to be great?

I think everyone’s jumping to conclusions about what happened. Not defending one side or other. It would be nice to see footage of the entire incident. I saw an 8 min. Clip and it didn’t seem the boy was disrespectful. He stood there awkwardly, yes. But..not disrespectful.

Horrible example of a Catholic student today.. no matter the circumstances.. this student stood in front of an elder trying to intimidate and not let him by .. disgraceful and disrespectful.. would he have done this if the drummer was a larger white man?

Guess they must have kicked and punched him to a bloody pulp and broke his drum Unlike the rational progressives who don’t confront anyone who disagrees with them! Probably jail is too good...

I have no confidence in them doing the right thing, who do u think these little devils learned from? CovingtonCatholic CovingtonCatholicHighSchool MakeAmericaGreatAgain

Christianity is a great thing. Too bad its not practised more.

This is before the real facts emerged and fake news you are spreading was debunked. Catch up already.

Maybe they will. They may not even know how they created this problem.

If their parents are fine with the way their children represented their families on TV there is no point.

Sorry but the kids are innocent nomatter how hard the mefia tries to spin it to us.

More to the story.

You're still tweeting the lie?

I hope you are sued for defamation

The kids should be expelled for having terribly pathetic fashion sense.

Since the kids have now been proven innocent and they are the victims of aggression and abuse. How about we give them awards for NOT reacting and keeping calm as a large group of threatening adult men accosted them.

It’s sick is apart slandering these minors. If they they’re not wearing MAGA hats this is a none story. Disgusting slander.

This is fakenews and old. The media keeps pushing this false story. The elder was the one acting acting aggressively. The kid just stood there. Watch the video.

People who pursue peace don't show up wearing gear that represents hatred and/or exclusion of the group they want to peacefully protest around. They showed up to cause trouble, and they did. So stop crying innocence and take your lumps!

Why do you keep tweeting this when you know that you’re not telling the whole story? Why don’t you do research for a change.

Young male Americans being radicalized thorough the tone set by the President of the United States, drawing on the rage of angry, backward thinking People who either cannot see the ultimate result or don’t care. The message that these hats carry is not subtle, nor debatable.

Appropriate action would be apologizing to the young men for condemning them before all of the facts came out. They need adults in their lives who will defend them, not throw them to the SJW wolves.

They should be expelled.

So you’re going to keep posting this crap and not retract?

Hey Covington Catholic....we want to see proof of your 'action'. If you don't then you did nothing.

Fake news

The need to work on their 'Be-Attitudes'...sorry, Catholic humor!

The appropriate action is nothing at all since they did nothing wrong, no matter how hard the media and twitter left wing celebs want to push that narrative in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

You misspelled could...it starts with “SH”.......

This will be a good life lesson for those young Men.

The appropriate action is no action CovingtonCatholic

A slap on the knuckles and a couple of hail Marys is not appropriate action. Kick them all out. CovingtonCatholic or lose your tax exempt status.

I believe the kids are innocent.

Look the whole video. They approached the students.

Except the video doesn't show that..

That was before the full video came out that showed the old man provoked it. Lots of blame to go around

The reason the mainstream press found the kid guilty is because he is white. White people are automatically guilty in the liberal imagination.

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