Trumpers and Native American face off

[Cuddles]

"Mysterious Twitter account that stoked the DC protest controversy was either a teacher in California who had time to tweet 130 times a day or a Russian bot. Your call comrade..."

A mysterious Twitter account stoked the DC protest controversy, but who was behind it?
https://wtvr.com/2019/01/23/a-myste...dc-protest-controversy-but-who-was-behind-it/

Looks like that's fake news; reverse image search linked twitter user avatar to some Brazilian model.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mbzjwx/covington-video-tweet-twitter-house-democrats

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ter-russian-troll_us_5c4757b8e4b027c3bbc609b4

don't mind the sources, but they're the only ones that bother digging.

 

[Tom B]

Andrew Sullivan on Covington: ‘They were 16-year-olds subjected to verbal racist assault’

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...-abyss-of-hate-versus-hate.html?utm_source=tw

 

[Cuddles]

this seems apropos

 

[Tom B]

The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story
And the damage to their credibility will be lasting.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must-learn-covington-catholic-story/581035/

 

[gwb-trading]

Covington high school students cleared of any wrongdoing in viral incident after independent investigation
https://www.foxnews.com/us/covingto...iral-incident-after-independent-investigation

The students from Covington Catholic High School were cleared of any wrongdoing after an independent investigation funded by the diocese found they were not the instigators of the viral incident with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., last month.

The inquiry, conducted by Greater Cincinnati Investigation Inc., found that the accounts of Nick Sandmann, his classmates and the chaperones on their trip to the nation’s capital were consistent with videos that circulated online showing that it was they who were harassed by a group of so-called Black Hebrew Israelites.

(More at above url)

 

[vanzandt]

Covington high school students cleared of any wrongdoing in viral incident after independent investigation
https://www.foxnews.com/us/covingto...iral-incident-after-independent-investigation

The students from Covington Catholic High School were cleared of any wrongdoing after an independent investigation funded by the diocese found they were not the instigators of the viral incident with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., last month.

The inquiry, conducted by Greater Cincinnati Investigation Inc., found that the accounts of Nick Sandmann, his classmates and the chaperones on their trip to the nation’s capital were consistent with videos that circulated online showing that it was they who were harassed by a group of so-called Black Hebrew Israelites.

(More at above url)

The Dioceses funded an investigation huh?
Ahhh...... nevermind.

 

[WeToddDid2]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/covington-high-students-legal-team-sues-washington-post

Covington High student's legal team sues Washington Post

Attorneys representing the Kentucky high school student involved in a confrontation that went viral on social media last month announced Tuesday that they were suing The Washington Post for $250 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

 

[Cuddles]

The Dioceses funded an investigation huh?
Ahhh...... nevermind.

It's hilarious the shit fox comes up with. Ooh, an investigation into a non-crime

https://www.foxnews.com/us/covington-high-students-legal-team-sues-washington-post

Covington High student's legal team sues Washington Post

Attorneys representing the Kentucky high school student involved in a confrontation that went viral on social media last month announced Tuesday that they were suing The Washington Post for $250 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

dat there freedom of expression that protects Trump's spurious remarks cuts both ways

 

[WeToddDid2]

dat there freedom of expression that protects Trump's spurious remarks cuts both ways

https://www.minclaw.com/legal-resou...defamation-public-official-vs-private-person/

Defamation—Public Official vs. Private Person

The distinction between the rights of a private person and the privacy rights of a public person is significant when considering a defamation claim. People who remove themselves from the private arena by becoming a public official or public figure do not give up all rights to privacy. However, there are specific restrictions applied to defamation claims with regard to someone who holds public office or chooses to be in the public eye.

The Public Arena
According to many courts, a public official is a government employee who has, or appears to the public to have, a significant role in the business of government and public affairs. Such people are considered to be held in a position that would draw or even demand public scrutiny. They also are considered to have significant ability to defend themselves regarding such public scrutiny and therefore cannot claim defamation unless the statement is not only proven to be false, but the defamer is proven to have shown reckless disregard for that falsity. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254.

The Private Arena
Private individuals who believe they have been defamed must prove that the defamer showed negligence in considering or confirming that a statement is false prior to publication, rather than the more stringent reckless disregard. This rule applies also to public officials or public figures relative to personal or private matters.

 

[Cuddles]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ncident/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.adc1bb839871

Editor’s note related to Lincoln Memorial incident

A Washington Post article first posted online on Jan. 19 reported on a Jan. 18 incident at the Lincoln Memorial. Subsequent reporting, a student’s statement and additional video allow for a more complete assessment of what occurred, either contradicting or failing to confirm accounts provided in that story — including that Native American activist Nathan Phillips was prevented by one student from moving on, that his group had been taunted by the students in the lead-up to the encounter, and that the students were trying to instigate a conflict. The high school student facing Phillips issued a statement contradicting his account; the bishop in Covington, Ky., apologized for the statement condemning the students; and an investigation conducted for the Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic High School found the students’ accounts consistent with videos. Subsequent Post coverage, including video, reported these developments: “Viral standoff between a tribal elder and a high schooler is more complicated than it first seemed”; “Kentucky bishop apologizes to Covington Catholic students, says he expects their exoneration”; “Investigation finds no evidence of ‘racist or offensive statements’ in Mall incident.”

A Jan. 22 correction to the original story reads: Earlier versions of this story incorrectly said that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War. Phillips said he served in the U.S. Marines but was never deployed to Vietnam.