Nick Sandmann, who was the subject of a defamatory media firestorm during last year’s March for Life, returned to D.C. one year later.
“I will never pass on an opportunity to March for Life,” Sandmann wrote on Twitter.
I will never pass on an opportunity to March for Life! pic.twitter.com/iU0ohmdcTJ
— Nicholas Sandmann (@N1ckSandmann) January 24, 2020
Sandmann, along with other students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, was approached by an activist group the Black Hebrew Israelites and Native American activist Nathan Phillips. It was originally speculated that Sandmann and the students were taunting the two, but footage later revealed the students were the targets of harassment. A day later, Phillips and a group of others denounced the Catholic Church and demanded punishment for the Covington group before attempting to disrupt a Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in D.C.
Members of the Black Hebrew Israelites called the students “a bunch of incest babies,” saying they “worship blasphemy.”
Sandmann settled a defamation lawsuit with CNN for $275 million over their coverage of the incident. The suit addressed four television broadcasts and nine articles that Sandmann’s lawyers alleged were defamatory.
