{"id":149356,"date":"2020-05-11T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/covington-kid-nick-sandmann-graduates-high-school-celebrates-college-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T17:01:07","slug":"covington-kid-nick-sandmann-graduates-high-school-celebrates-college-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/covington-kid-nick-sandmann-graduates-high-school-celebrates-college-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Covington Kid Nick Sandmann Graduates High School, Celebrates College Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kentucky high School student who was falsely accused of taunting a Native American activist on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 2019 said he has been awarded a scholarship and is preparing for college in the fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery excited to say I will be graduating!\u201d 17-year-old Nick Sandmann wrote on Twitter. \u201cAfter being told I would never get into college and my life was done, Ill be going to an amazing school on a scholarship!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDont back down and keep winning!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\nVery excited to say I will be graduating!
After being told I would never get into college and my life was done, Ill be going to an amazing school on a scholarship! Dont back down and keep winning! pic.twitter.com\/nYHVmJ1uEP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Nicholas Sandmann (@N1ckSandmann) May 8, 2020<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A short video showing the January 2019 encounter between Sandmann and Native American activist Nathan Phillips gained attention after it was widely circulated on social media and the news. The edited clip that circulated widely in the media showed Sandman \u201csmirking\u201d at Philips, while his MAGA-hat-wearing friends from Covington Catholic High chanted and cheered in mockery, many reports claimed at the time.<\/p>\n

The incident was extensively covered, alleging that the Covington boys who attended the March for Life that day surrounded and harassed 64-year-old Philips. However, it turned out that the edited video lacked important context about the confrontation after a longer video that emerged later told a different story: that the students were on the receiving end of racist verbal attacks from a group of Black Hebrew Israelites, and that it was Philips who approached Sandmann and beat a drum within inches of his face.<\/p>\n

Sandmann sued CNN, The Washington Post, and NBC Universal in March 2019 for $800 million in damages, alleging that the media outlets falRead More From Source<\/a>
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