January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation |
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On January 18, 2019, a widely reported confrontation between groups of political demonstrators took place near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.. The face-off between a teenager and an indigenous man was captured on several photos and viral videos, with media coverage revealing days later that initial media reactions had misrepresented or omitted critical details of the incident. The interaction occurred in the late afternoon, after two rallies taking place that day at the National Mall had ended. The participants involved were Covington Catholic High School teenage students on an annual school trip to attend a pro-life March for Life rally who were assembling to meet buses to take them home; Native American marchers attending the Indigenous Peoples March; and five Black Hebrew Israelites, who taunted the students by shouting racist and homophobic slurs. One particular moment was captured in a screenshot published in numerous mass media outlets, showing one of the students, later identified as 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann, staring at Native American activist Nathan Phillips, who had approached him, with what some reports characterized as a smirk on his face.
The short videos of the encounter that were uploaded to common social media platforms Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube received millions of views and were widely shared on mass media. At first, the anger focused on the students and the school. The school and students were the subject of death threats. As more videos were released, diverging views about what really had happened polarized Americans. The incident was described by The New York Times as an "explosive convergence of race, religion and ideological beliefs" and a Vox editorial called it the "nation's biggest story". The incident generated cycles of outrage that continued a week after the event. (From Wikipedia)
The short videos of the encounter that were uploaded to common social media platforms Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube received millions of views and were widely shared on mass media. At first, the anger focused on the students and the school. The school and students were the subject of death threats. As more videos were released, diverging views about what really had happened polarized Americans. The incident was described by The New York Times as an "explosive convergence of race, religion and ideological beliefs" and a Vox editorial called it the "nation's biggest story". The incident generated cycles of outrage that continued a week after the event. (From Wikipedia)
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