Lawyer for Catholic Schoolboy, Nick Sandmann, Releases Video Showing the Truth vs. Media Lies
Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann’s legal team
released a 15-minute video on Friday exposing “the truth” about what
happened to him at January’s March for Life.
Sandmann’s lead attorney, nationally-recognized First Amendment expert L. Lin Wood, said in a tweet Saturday that the release of the full video was meant to show “the full truth” of what happened to his client at the March for Life, combating many of the “agenda-driven” accusations and threats resulting from the piecemeal 30-second clips circulating the Internet.
The 15-minute video
montage placed all the 30-second video clips together in one timeline
to combat some of the false narratives promoted by figures in the
mainstream media, celebrities, politicians, and church leaders, and to
show all of Sandmann’s actions leading up to the confrontation with
Native American activist Nathan Phillips.
“Two weeks ago, the mainstream media, politicians, church officials,
commentators & celebrities rushed to judgment to wrongfully condemn,
threaten, disparage & vilify Nick Sandmann based solely on a few
seconds of an out-of-context video clip. It only takes 15 minutes to
learn the truth,” the YouTube video’s description stated.
Sandmann’s legal team has been preparing
to send defamation suit warning letters to a laundry list of
celebrities, individual journalists, media outlets, and several Catholic
dioceses who falsely accused Sandmann and his classmates of harassing a
Native American.