Covington Catholic school boys exonerated by church investigation.

The incident showing Nick Sandmann and Nathan Philips. LA Times/AP. 

The Covington Catholic school boys have been exonerated by an investigation by the Kentucky Catholic diocese. LA Times. The students were tarred as racist after video showing a confrontation between the boys and American Indian activist Nathan Phillips. In the initial confusion before more information came out, the Catholic Diocese condemned the boys. However, more video showed that the boys were being harassed by the Black Hebrew Israelites and were approached by Phillips and did not harass him. The investigation was conducted by a contracted company and they preformed 240 hours worth of interviews with students and witnesses as well as reviewing 50 hours of video. the report found that the boys did nothing wrong and were confused by Nathan Phillips. 

My Comment:

Independent confirmation to what we all ready knew. The entire situation was essentially fake news with the narrative that spread in the media and on twitter was essentially fake news. These boys were painted as racists and now have been essentially completely exonerated. 

I don't know if this lets the Catholic diocese off the hook. They jumped the gun to say the least and they are among the groups likely to be sued by the students. They called these boys racists and that was the absolute wrong thing to do. Even if the LA Times report was correct and they were being harassed, that's not an excuse for slander. 

I do worry that people haven't even realized that these boys were exonerated. Some of those people can't be reached because they will always believe because of the race and politics of the people involved the Covington boys will always be wrong and Nathan Phillips will always be right. You will never be able to convince them of anything. But there are a lot of people out there that might look at the evidence but simply haven't seen it. 

In retrospect this event seems to have been a watershed moment. Things have not been going well for the left lately and the media is actually covering it. Though I don't know for sure, I do think that the negative coverage over the various scandals the Democrats wouldn't have been possible without this event. The media are trying to prove they really are fair because they know they will soon have to defend themselves in court. 

Speaking of court, I am sincerely hoping that the lawsuits filed will bring down some individuals and organizations. People are backtracking, including the Catholic Church, but I see it mainly as a way to avoid losing millions when they eventually lose a court case. 

Finally, I also heard that Nathan Phillips himself is going to be sued as well. I consider him to be responsible for this and his motivation was to cause a media circus. He still calls these boys racist even though it has been pretty conclusively proven to be otherwise. I don't believe that he believes that they are, he just wants the media gravy train to continue. I sincerely hope that he gets taken to the cleaners...