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Lawyer: Covington Catholic High School student will sue CNN for $250 million

By Daniel Jativa
Published March 9, 2019 11:02pm ET
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Lawyer: Covington Catholic High School student will sue CNN for $250 million
In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington in Kentucky is looking into this and other videos that show youths, possibly from the diocese's all-male Covington Catholic High School, mocking Native Americans at a rally in Washington. | (Survival Media Agency via AP)

An attorney for one of the Catholic school students involved in a viral incident with a Native American protester said Nick Sandmann will sue CNN
for $250 million.

The Covington Catholic student was featured in the partially clipped videos aired by major national news outlets, says that CNN engaged in “vicious” direct attacks against him, said his lawyer, L. Lin Wood, in a Fox News interview set to air Sunday.

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