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Covington Catholic High School decided to cancel classes on Tuesday after a weekend of controversy following a viral video featuring some of its students.
Principal Robert Rowe told
WXIX that school officials met with local authorities and decided to cancel school and close the building on Tuesday to ensure that students, faculty and staff would be safe. Rowe added that all campus activities were cancelled for during the day on Tuesday, as well as, the evening.
“Students, parents, faculty and staff are not to be on campus for any reason,” Rowe said in a letter. “Please continue to keep the Covington Catholic Community in your prayers.”
The Park Hills, Kentucky, school’s decision to close on Tuesday followed the publishing of a video of a student wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat standing in front of a Native American elder. The students were in Washington, D.C., for the annual anti-abortion rally, the March for Life, and were waiting for their busses at the Lincoln Memorial.
On Saturday, a video clip of a confrontation between a Native American elder, identified as Nathan Phillips, and a high school student, identified as Nick Sandmann, was published on several social media sites. Many of the students were wearing attire supporting President Donald Trump, prompting prominent people on social media to label the students as racist and bigoted.
In the video, Sandmann was seen standing in front of Phillips, who was playing his drum, and at one point the student smiled, which several people claimed was a taunting of sorts.
Kenton County Commonwealth's Attorney Rob Sanders told
The Cincinnati Enquirer that Covington Catholic High School and some students received violent threats after the video was published. Before the school decided to cancel classes, officials were working with law enforcement to devise a safety plan.
"I think anybody threatening school children is completely wrong, and I won't stand for it personally," Lance Soto, co-chairman of the American Indian Movement Chapters of Indiana and Kentucky, which planned a protest for Tuesday, said. "Those people are not affiliated with us."
After the initial video was published, a longer video was released, which showed the high school students being targeted by a group of people identified as the Hebrew Israelites. Homophobic and racial remarks were shouted at the students and an African-American classmate of Sandmann’s was allegedly directly called out.
“They called us ‘racists,’ ‘bigots,’ ‘white crackers,’ ‘faggots,’ and ‘incest kids,’” Sandmann said, according to
CNN. “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.”
The "peaceful, easy feeling" DPST have marshalled the Brown Shirts of Hatred!!!
A kid who behaved admirably in self-retraint while being Set-Up by DPST provocateurs is marked for death by the "Tolerant Left".
The Hatred is out of control by the Anti-Fa Brown Shirts. And Others on the radical right. No excuse for that behavior.
I hope the perpetrators are found, charged with harassment, and given a fair trial!!!!
Covington Catholic Cancels Classes After Violent Threat
