Native American activist Nathan Phillips slams Nick Sandmann as ‘coached’ and insincere

Published January 24, 2019 1:20pm ET



Native American activist Nathan Phillips, who claimed he was intimidated by a group of children from a Covington Catholic high school says that he felt the student Nick Sandmann’s response after the incident was dishonest.

“Coached, and written up for him, insincerity, lack of responsibility; those are the words I came up with,” Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder, told Today when asked what he felt about the student’s response to the confrontation.

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