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Nick Sandmann’s family hires a libel attorney

By Katelyn Caralle
Published January 25, 2019 9:01pm ET
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Nick Sandmann’s family hires a libel attorney
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)

The family of Nick Sandmann, the student at the center of a viral confrontation with a Native American protester last weekend, has hired a high-profile libel attorney.

The attorney, L. Lin Wood, “is committed to bringing justice to 16-year-old Nick Sandmann and his family,” Sandmann’s family attorney Todd McMurtry said, according to a local Cincinnati news outlet.

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