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As the Cincinnati Enquirer reports, the group of young men in MAGA hats seen harassing marchers in the now-viral video appear to be students at the Covington Catholic High School, which sends a delegation of its students to Washington to attend the anti-abortion March For Life annually. This year, the rally was held the same day as the Indigenous Peoples March.
The video shows one of the teen boys standing right in the face of a Native elder, as others are seen chanting and taunting around him. Indian Country Today reports that the elder in question is Nathan Phillips, an Omaha elder who is also a veteran of the Vietnam War and the former director of the Native Youth Alliance. One attendee who shared video of the incident on Instagram wrote that she was “pushed and laughed at by teenage boys who grew up to believe that their lives are more important than ours.”
Another post describing the incident reads, in part: “As we tried to move through the crowd, they closed in tighter around us, and wouldn’t allow anyone to pass. It was obvious that they wanted any excuse for the day to turn violent. They repeatedly ‘bumped’ into us, trying to agitate people into confrontation. But instead, the very few of us left stood quietly, trying to remain calm. I was seething with anger and rage and disappointment. I was so confused about why these boys would go out of their way to harass such a small, vulnerable group.”
Although parents and chaperones were present, multiple witnesses on social media say they did nothing to intervene.
Mob of MAGA Hat-Wearing Teen Boys Caught on Video Harassing Native Elder
Nice that they came for a right-to-life rally. Not so nice that they acted like Nazi thugs when they happened on people of a different culture.
Shame on the "adults" who were supposed to be supervising them. Kudos to the diocese and the school who condemned these creeps and indicated punishment, and perhaps expulsion would follow.
The video shows one of the teen boys standing right in the face of a Native elder, as others are seen chanting and taunting around him. Indian Country Today reports that the elder in question is Nathan Phillips, an Omaha elder who is also a veteran of the Vietnam War and the former director of the Native Youth Alliance. One attendee who shared video of the incident on Instagram wrote that she was “pushed and laughed at by teenage boys who grew up to believe that their lives are more important than ours.”
Another post describing the incident reads, in part: “As we tried to move through the crowd, they closed in tighter around us, and wouldn’t allow anyone to pass. It was obvious that they wanted any excuse for the day to turn violent. They repeatedly ‘bumped’ into us, trying to agitate people into confrontation. But instead, the very few of us left stood quietly, trying to remain calm. I was seething with anger and rage and disappointment. I was so confused about why these boys would go out of their way to harass such a small, vulnerable group.”
Although parents and chaperones were present, multiple witnesses on social media say they did nothing to intervene.
Mob of MAGA Hat-Wearing Teen Boys Caught on Video Harassing Native Elder
Shame on the "adults" who were supposed to be supervising them. Kudos to the diocese and the school who condemned these creeps and indicated punishment, and perhaps expulsion would follow.
