The lawsuit filed against The Washington Post by the family of Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann was dismissed by a federal judge in Kentucky on Friday.
Sandmann was thrust into the national spotlight earlier this year when mainstream news outlets like the Post and CNN reported that he and several of his fellow students harassed a Native American man named Nathan Phillips while attending the March for Life. Phillips testified that “Make America Great Again” hat-wearing boys blocked his path and taunted him with racial slurs, which appeared somewhat credible at first when viral video revealed the boys standing around Phillips, cheering as he banged a drum in front of Sandmann’s face. However, the narrative took a dramatic turn when other videos showed that Phillips approached the boys, who were at the time being taunted with racial slurs by a group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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