Posted on 01/20/2019 8:57:20 PM PST by grundle
Below is the complete video of what happened on January 18, 2019, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
But first, the video’s description states:
Full video of what transpired regarding Catholic High students
First 45 minutes are african americans being incredibly racist and threatening violence against the students directly. Kept that in the upload in case someone accuses me of deceptive editing. Nothing here was edited, at all. This is the whole video of the entire event.
Starts getting interesting around @1:10:00
Native Americans invade the student rally at 1:11:24. You can see them come across directly, and instigate the confrontation with the kids. The kids were minding their own business.
At NO point in the entire video do they chant “build the wall.”
Now here’s the complete video of what happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQyBHTTqb38
In this next video, Scott Adams apologizes for an earlier video that he had made (and which he has since deleted) where he was very critical of the teens in MAGA hats. He says the reason that he changed his mind is because he watched the complete video that I posted above.
In this video, Adams says:
The teens were completely innocent.
The black Israelites were using racist and anti-gay slurs.
The teens in MAGA hats criticized the black Israelites for using racist and anti-gay slurs.
The native American man walked up to the teen and started banging his drum very close to the teen’s face.
The teen stood his ground and refused to move.
The teens stood and smiled.
The teens did not do anything wrong.
Here is Scott Adams’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1DrAeUNPU0
The Washington Post reported (the boldng is mine):
Phillips said a few people in the March for Life crowd began to chant, “Build that wall, build that wall,” though such chants are not audible on video.
Here is the statement from Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann:
Covington Catholic student from incident at the Indigenous Peoples March issues statement with his side of the story
January 20, 2019
The Covington Catholic student seen facing off with a Native American protestor in viral videos spread across the Internet issued a statement to The Enquirer through a lawyer and spokesman on Sunday night. The family, through the spokesman, declined any further interviews
Statement of Nick Sandmann, Covington Catholic High School Junior, Regarding Incident at the Lincoln Memorial
I am providing this factual account of what happened on Friday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial to correct misinformation and outright lies being spread about my family and me
I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native American protestor. I arrived at the Lincoln Memorial at 4:30 p.m. I was told to be there by 5:30 p.m., when our busses were due to leave Washington for the trip back to Kentucky. We had been attending the March for Life rally, and then had split up into small groups to do sightseeing.
When we arrived, we noticed four African American protestors who were also on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I am not sure what they were protesting, and I did not interact with them. I did hear them direct derogatory insults at our school group.
The protestors said hateful things. They called us “racists,” “bigots,” “white crackers,” “faggots,” and “incest kids.” They also taunted an African American student from my school by telling him that we would “harvest his organs.” I have no idea what that insult means, but it was startling to hear.
Because we were being loudly attacked and taunted in public, a student in our group asked one of our teacher chaperones for permission to begin our school spirit chants to counter the hateful things that were being shouted at our group. The chants are commonly used at sporting events.
They are all positive in nature and sound like what you would hear at any high school. Our chaperone gave us permission to use our school chants. We would not have done that without obtaining permission from the adults in charge of our group.
At no time did I hear any student chant anything other than the school spirit chants. I did not witness or hear any students chant “build that wall” or anything hateful or racist at any time. Assertions to the contrary are simply false. Our chants were loud because we wanted to drown out the hateful comments that were being shouted at us by the protestors.
After a few minutes of chanting, the Native American protestors, who I hadn’t previously noticed, approached our group. The Native American protestors had drums and were accompanied by at least one person with a camera.
The protestor everyone has seen in the video began playing his drum as he waded into the crowd, which parted for him. I did not see anyone try to block his path. He locked eyes with me and approached me, coming within inches of my face. He played his drum the entire time he was in my face.
I never interacted with this protestor. I did not speak to him. I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves. To be honest, I was startled and confused as to why he had approached me. We had already been yelled at by another group of protestors, and when the second group approached I was worried that a situation was getting out of control where adults were attempting to provoke teenagers.
I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation. I realized everyone had cameras and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a larger conflict. I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of hand.
During the period of the drumming, a member of the protestor’s entourage began yelling at a fellow student that we “stole our land” and that we should “go back to Europe.” I heard one of my fellow students begin to respond. I motioned to my classmate and tried to get him to stop engaging with the protestor, as I was still in the mindset that we needed to calm down tensions.
I never felt like I was blocking the Native American protestor. He did not make any attempt to go around me. It was clear to me that he had singled me out for a confrontation, although I am not sure why.
The engagement ended when one of our teachers told me the busses had arrived and it was time to go. I obeyed my teacher and simply walked to the busses. At that moment, I thought I had diffused the situation by remaining calm, and I was thankful nothing physical had occurred.
I never understood why either of the two groups of protestors were engaging with us, or exactly what they were protesting at the Lincoln Memorial. We were simply there to meet a bus, not become central players in a media spectacle. This is the first time in my life I’ve ever encountered any sort of public protest, let alone this kind of confrontation or demonstration.
I was not intentionally making faces at the protestor. I did smile at one point because I wanted him to know that I was not going to become angry, intimidated or be provoked into a larger confrontation. I am a faithful Christian and practicing Catholic, and I always try to live up to the ideals my faith teaches me – to remain respectful of others, and to take no action that would lead to conflict or violence.
I harbor no ill will for this person. I respect this person’s right to protest and engage in free speech activities, and I support his chanting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial any day of the week. I believe he should re-think his tactics of invading the personal space of others, but that is his choice to make.
I am being called every name in the book, including a racist, and I will not stand for this mob-like character assassination of my family’s name. My parents were not on the trip, and I strive to represent my family in a respectful way in all public settings.
I have received physical and death threats via social media, as well as hateful insults. One person threatened to harm me at school, and one person claims to live in my neighborhood. My parents are receiving death and professional threats because of the social media mob that has formed over this issue.
I love my school, my teachers and my classmates. I work hard to achieve good grades and to participate in several extracurricular activities. I am mortified that so many people have come to believe something that did not happen – that students from my school were chanting or acting in a racist fashion toward African Americans or Native Americans. I did not do that, do not have hateful feelings in my heart, and did not witness any of my classmates doing that.
I cannot speak for everyone, only for myself. But I can tell you my experience with Covington Catholic is that students are respectful of all races and cultures. We also support everyone’s right to free speech.
I am not going to comment on the words or account of Mr. Phillips, as I don’t know him and would not presume to know what is in his heart or mind. Nor am I going to comment further on the other protestors, as I don’t know their hearts or minds, either.
I have read that Mr. Phillips is a veteran of the United States Marines. I thank him for his service and am grateful to anyone who puts on the uniform to defend our nation. If anyone has earned the right to speak freely, it is a U.S. Marine veteran.
I can only speak for myself and what I observed and felt at the time. But I would caution everyone passing judgement based on a few seconds of video to watch the longer video clips that are on the internet, as they show a much different story than is being portrayed by people with agendas.
I provided this account of events to the Diocese of Covington so they may know exactly what happened, and I stand ready and willing to cooperate with any investigation they are conducting.
This is the only statement that has been made by the Sandmann family. Any comments attributed to any member of the family that is not contained in this document are fabricated. The family will not be answering individual media inquiries.
Scott Adams drinking coffee after being pwned by CNN.
Meh.
Thanks for posting this.
This event was totally staged to provoke the exact outrage it did and these kids had no idea they were being played. It was defused only because additional footage surfaced that showed the whole story.
A MAGA ball cap and vigilant situational awareness need to go hand in hand.
Sigh. All the things I hate about being in Washington DC.
Freedom of speech means we have to put up with racist pieces of crap like those in the linked video.
A very dignified , controlled and respectful statement. After watching even just the shortened, anti-student video which has been shown, I could tell that the narrative that these students were somehow at fault was a lie. This boy’s account is much more in line with what I have seen, and puts the incident in perspective of the entire event. Bravo for this young man!
It is called “bird-dogging” by the Left. I got ‘bird dogged” at a rally for Sarah Palin back in 2008 in Boston.
I had a guy in my face, literally inches away, trying to provoke me. I just kept saying calmly “I am not interested in talking to you. Get out of my way.” And there were a whole bunch of his friends standing off the side recording.
Finally, everyone around me told the guy to bug off because it was clear I didn’t want to engage with him.
I so would have enjoyed pummeling the jackass, but... I was carrying, so...you have to swallow your emotion and be the responsible one.
Anyway, these kids shouldn’t have been involved in this kind of thing...there should have been an adult somewhere. I know they were there for a right to life thing, which I admire, but interacting with these people takes a degree of maturity to keep from having it be violent or embarrassing.
While I appreciate they were mature enough to be at a right to life rally, 16 year old boys can be remarkably unconnected to the nuances of the situation at hand, and are vulnerable to people who would have no qualms about setting them up or hitting them below the belt.
I watched the whole video. The black Israelites were racist. The called the boys incest babies and crackers.they referred to the black students as Nigg#rs.Used the words faggots, dykes. Told boys Jesus was black and one of the boys said it does matter.
“This event was staged to provoke the exact outrage it did...”
The outrage was there to begin with. This incident was staged to express it, and to give others who felt that way an excuse to over-react and misbehave. The students from the Catholic school were being hated and confronted because they dared to be pro-life, pro-Trump, pro-USA, and to show their feelings in public. Their reaction to being targeted in this way is a model of public political behavior: keep your cool; don’t be intimidated into shutting up, nor provoked into saying or doing anything you had not originally intended to express. They acted more like adults that the American Indian ‘elder’ who invaded their space, confronted them physically, and misbehaved in a quite childish manner.
The boys were remarkably well behaved. I have seen these black Israelites before and avoid them. Very angry bunch. I also think the leader thought boys were oldercollege age as talked about losing their scholarships. where were the chaperones?should have gotten kids out of there.
Thank you!
I just sent this to the Nashville mews station I blasted earlier this evening for their BS report on this. They demonized those kids.
They owe them an apology - publicly - but I don’t expect them to do it.
Where were the chaperones?
Innocent of what? Smiling? What were they being charged with? Hurting someone's feelings? I feel like I'm in Bizarro World where leftists are applauded for smashing people's heads in with bike locks and conservatives get death threats for smiling. I am tired of this game.
He was also a Marine, according to the press, yet I can't find an proof that he was - and we weren't taking 17 year olds.
I think this guy is a phony - in more ways than one.
Thank you.
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What an AWESOME guy!!
Good point. Can someone check up on this? The whole drama was a polished fraud.
A MAGA ball cap and vigilant situational awareness need to go hand in hand.
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Yet, we are told not to be judgemental when young women wear provocative clothing and some male gets the sexually available message.
The left seems to be able to wear politically inflammatory messages on their shirts with no consequence.
It was, in this instance, the leftist provocateur who violated the young man’s personal space, drummed loudly in his ears, risking damage to the boy’s hearing, while a group of politically privileged blacks provided a flanking action with personal, derogatory, incendiary comments aimed at both white and black students.
I won’t hold my breath until these actions are called out for the attempts to incite that they clearly are. However,this taunting over a simple political statement to make our nation great as it once was was all a D legislator thought he needed to demand a law suppressing the passive political free speech of teens.
Where does this stand on the intersectional spectrum?
Can we make #NoVictimShaming trend?
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