Ilhan Omar deletes tweets attacking Covington student

By Katelyn Caralle

Published January 23, 2019 6:09pm ET

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Ilhan Omar deletes tweets attacking Covington student — State Rep. Ilhan Omar takes the oath of office as the 2017 Legislature convened on Jan. 3, 2017, in St. Paul, Minn. Omar is the nation's first Somali-American to be elected to a state legislature. | (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing backlash on Twitter over her claims about the Covington Catholic High School students involved in a viral interaction with a Native American protester.

In a tweet deleted Wednesday morning, Omar, D-Minn., claimed that the teenage boys from Kentucky chanted “it’s not rape if you enjoy it,” taunted black men in the vicinity, and surrounded Native American elder Nathan Phillips while engaging in racist chants.

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