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Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann says he’s been under ‘constant threat’ since incident

By Mike Brest
Published April 13, 2020 8:35pm ET
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Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann says he’s been under ‘constant threat’ since incident
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 Covington Catholic student who went viral for an incident between his classmates and a Native American man claimed he has lived under “constant threat” since January 2019.

A video shared online appeared to show Nicholas Sandmann and his classmates standing in front of a Native American man, Nathan Phillips. Many reports on the conflict portrayed the students as taunting the man, but longer footage revealed the students had been harassed by a group of Black Hebrew Israelite protesters who were not seen in the original viral clip.

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