{"id":114327,"date":"2019-01-22T18:53:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T22:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=114327"},"modified":"2019-01-22T18:55:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T22:55:59","slug":"media-totally-out-of-control-egged-on-celebrities-to-the-point-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=114327","title":{"rendered":"Media Totally Out of Control, Egged on Celebrities to the Point of Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Violent threats against Covington Catholic High school, students under investigation<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Lukas Mikelionis<br \/>\nFOX<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5992147531001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The subsequent video footage revealed that the students were accosted and yelled at before Phillips and other Native American activists approached them. Another group \u2013 the so-called Black Hebrew Israelites \u2013 were heard shouting abuse at the students for wearing \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d hats.<\/p>\n<p>Kenton County Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Rob Sanders told the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/01\/21\/authorities-investigating-threats-against-cov-cath\/2638457002\/\">Cincinnati Enquirer<\/a>\u00a0on Monday that threats against the school and students are being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t reveal the exact nature of the threats, only that students and the school were threatened with actual violence.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted the school to come up with a security plan for the school for Tuesday, with Sanders saying the school is cooperating with other law enforcement agencies. \u201cWe will be prepared for tomorrow,\u201d Sanders told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Sandmann, a junior at Covington Catholic High School who was caught in the center of the controversy, spoke out for the first time on Sunday. He released a statement claiming that he and his classmates were taunted by a group of African-American protesters.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was \u201cmortified that so many people have come to believe something that did not happen &#8212; that students from my school were chanting or acting in a racist fashion toward African Americans or Native Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not do that, do not have hateful feelings in my heart and did not witness any of my classmates doing that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pull-quote\">\n<p class=\"quote-text\">\u201cI did not do that, do not have hateful feelings in my heart and did not witness any of my classmates doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"quote-author\">\u2014 Nick Sandmann, a junior at Covington Catholic High School<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following the revelations of full video footage of the incident, conservatives, celebrities, and social media users\u00a0have backtracked their condemnation of the students, though many have left their criticism and calls to reveal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/kathy-griffin-calls-for-doxing-students-in-viral-video-shame-them\">private information<\/a>\u00a0still live on social media,\u00a0admitting that the initial footage didn\u2019t reveal the full picture.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump offered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-defends-covington-catholic-hs-students-says-media-smeared-them\">support to the students<\/a>, accusing the media of smearing the teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking like Nick Sandman (sic) &amp; Covington Catholic students were treated unfairly with early judgments proving out to be false &#8211; smeared by media,\u201d Trump wrote in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/violent-threats-against-covington-catholic-high-school-students-under-investigation\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/violent-threats-against-covington-catholic-high-school-students-under-investigation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent threats against Covington Catholic High school, students under investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}