A crowd of Covington Catholic (website, Facebook) students harass and mock Nathan Phillips. Known contacts:
- Browe@covcath.org
- Sbeiting@covcath.org
- Rflesch@covcath.org
Loose timeline of useful information that was released on Twitter:
4:16 AM – 19 Jan 2019 – A video of the event
3:53 PM – Jan 19, 2019 – Rapist Jake Walter from the school
Boone County deputies say Jake Walter, a one-time Covington Catholic basketball standout, held a woman down this weekend and repeatedly raped her until she bled.
Walter dismissed the victim by laughing at her and telling her that she would be fine.
12:16 AM – Jan 20, 2019 – Statement from one of the students mother
Shame on you! Were you there? Did you hear the names the people where calling these boys? It was shameful. Did you witness the black Muslims yelling profanities and video taping trying to get something to futher (sic) your narrative of hatred?? Did you know that this “man” came up to this one boy and drummed in his face? Shame on you. Only reporting what you want. More fake news.
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Delete my email. I want nothing to do with helping perpetuating (sic) your hate. I do not want to be a part of your story. You are ruining a boys life for fake news. Hate spreads like wildfire. I pray for you.
— Quote captured from WATCH: Covington Catholic Students Wearing MAGA Hats Taunt Native Americans [VIDEO] on Heavy.com.
8:44 AM – 20 Jan 2019 – Each student’s face–45 in all–screengrabbed from the video
Updated 24 Jan 2019
Images of previous incidents where Covington students were being racist
Student wearing blackface at a basketball game, apparently taunting a black player on the other team. Taken from a thread titled Should The Colonel Crazies’ Treatment Of Inbounders Have To Change?
Another image taken from a basketball game with students giving the white supremacy hand sign (the Medium article Does the OK Sign Actually Signify “White Power,” or What? details the symbol’s history and hoaxes). Image originally from this tweet. No source.
6:04 PM – 21 Jan 2019 – Harassing a female before the Nathan Phillips incident
Last thing, for people wondering what they yelled, all we specifically heard was “MAGA”, “Build the Wall”, and some people say they hear “slut” at the end of the video ok it’s past my bedtime goodnight twitter
Media presence
Daily Beast posted the article Covington Catholic Teen on ‘Fox & Friends’: Blackface Is ‘School Spirit’ on two students’ interview on Fox the morning of the 23rd. File under “male white privilege makes stupid”. These teens are either unprepared or stupid or both. Cf. the Parkland kids carrying themselves in the public sphere with calm intelligence and moral certitude.
Savannah Guthrie interviewed Nick Sandmann (possibly #1 in the group image above) on NBC Nightly News on the evening of the 23rd. He is as expressive and sympathetic as the two on Fox. This is more of an indictment of thrusting kids into the media. Allegedly, the Bishop at the school has now barred them from speaking to the media.
Predictable, Trump and Fox support them.