Breaking: Nicholas Sandmann Sues WaPo For $250 Million
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(Reuters) – A high school student from Covington, Kentucky, at the center of a videotaped incident at the Lincoln Memorial involving a Native American activist sued the Washington Post for defamation on Tuesday, claiming the newspaper “vilified” him because he is white.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Kentucky by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann, 16, seeks $250 million in damages – saying that was the amount Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com and the world’s richest person, paid for the Post in 2013.
“The Post wrongfully targeted and bullied Nicholas because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red ‘Make America Great Again’ souvenir cap on a school field trip to the Jan. 18 March for Life in Washington, D.C.,” the lawsuit claims.
Sandmann “was unexpectedly and suddenly confronted by Nathan Phillips … a known Native American activist, who beat a drum and sang loudly within inches of his face,” the suit said.
Representatives for the Washington Post did not immediately respond to a request by Reuters for comment.
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Good for him! Hopefully he wins and it will send a shockwave through the Press to get their facts straight before reporting. Too much "Fake News" going around these days...
I don't see how they would have a case. A viral video was reported on. The video was already out there.
They will also have to prove damage.
To a 16 year old reputation? His ability to get a job in the future?
Vulgar abuse?
Ask David Hogg about vulgar abuse. I don't see that kids name on any lawsuits against the mountain of media that defamed him during and after Parkland.
It was nasty about Hogg, even down to his college applications.
This kid and his family just want money. It would also be good optics for trump and his supporters.
Paper forced to give cash payout to MAGA teen.
Probably because David Hogg is not a MAGA nut.
Hogg was standing up for something. Something horrific he lived through.
They said nasty things and he got death threats.
Yet now we have a teen standing up to a big bad (elderly) Native American.
And the right goes nuts and praises this kid and wants him to get millions of dollars.
Un fucking real.
Yes.
David Hogg.
Then what was this kid standing up for, if not himself.
The sad thing is people trying to compare what a kid went trough, being shot at and had his peers die, against a kid that thought he was cool puffing his chest out to an indigenous elderly person.
Come back when you all have anything close.
David Hogg has turned the tragic deaths of his classmates into national celebrity and a scholarship to Harvard.
Judged on his own merits before the shooting, he was rejected by Cal State Long Beach.
I make no comment about Sandmann, except that the media created a national hysteria about a complete non-event that involved no actual violence whatsoever.
Hogg is riding a mass shooting as a gravy train.
So no...they're not particularly close.
I think the amount of the suit is actually a very valid point/topic for conversation.
If we were talking about $5 million or $10 million, then OK...that's not an unexpected amount. It's enough to secure a family's financial future and it's nothing to the business in question.
But $250 million?? That's a whole new ball game.
Now...none of that changes the fact that David Hogg has self promoted his way to "set for life" on the backs of kids being murdered. So in terms of the seriousness of the actual events that started their respective journies, there will never be any comparison.
The parents said they picked that amount because that's how much Bezos paid for the WaPo.
I read that. I'm still not sure I understand that logic, but it's their kid and their call.
Still, I guess my point was that suing for the value of the enterprise is a very different thing than the normal lawsuit for wrongful acts.
And this here is exactly what the lawsuit is about.
The false story that is still being spewed By people about their son.
Thanks for giving an example.
And it was a good point.
Sandmann the MAGA teen. The definition of 'snot nosed kid' is defined, again.
Why? Because he doesn't subscribe to your political view point?
Do you consider all victims of hate speech and intimidation to be "snot nose kids"?
No. Only those that meet the qualifications.
I called him a future incel in another seed
Demonizing the victim; and the left claims the right have lost it.
The shear amount of hatred for the victim coming from the left is staggering.
All because he had the temerity to wear a MAGA hat.
Wait....don't you conservatives say that kids need to learn that life is unfair and harsh? So now you want to protect the little crotch goblins?
Make up your damn minds!
My major problem with this kid is his sense of entitlement.
Entitlement to tell women that their bodies don't belong to them and he has the balls to tell women what they are allowed to do with their bodies.
I see an unplanned pregnancy in his future.....
It does make one stop and pause, doesn't it.
I still have not become accustomed to the ease with which some people disregard their own values simply to support Team Liberal.
The irony of this statement is off the charts.
Just trying to expose conservative hypocrisy.....
And before you say it...I know I'm a hypocrite. How many of you can admit that you're one, also?
OMG he has the audacity to have a different opinion than you? And wear a MAGA hat to boot? The horror.
Don't see how this makes him entitled though.
OMG! OMG! OMG!
I have a different opinion than you!!!!
I should be drawn and quartered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omg....you didn't fucking even read my goddamm comment or fucking comprehend it.
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Good for Nick! Whether they get 250M or not, this case needs to be heard. MSM cannot be allowed to ruin lives without consequence.