the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Washington DC, CNN agreed Tuesday to settle for an undisclosed amount in a $275 million lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann over the network’s coverage of his viral encounter with an elderly Native American activist and Black Hebrew Israelites group.
The group responsible for the deadly shooting rampage at a Jersey City kosher market has cast a spotlight on a fringe movement known for its anti-Semitic strain of street preaching and its role in a viral-video confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial this year.
Investigators believe that the man and woman who killed three people at the Jersey City grocery Tuesday in addition to gunning down a police officer at a cemetery hated Jews and law enforcement and had expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said .
A CNN spokesman confirmed to The Washington Times that a settlement had been reached, but offered no details. The amount was not disclosed in federal court in Covington, Kentucky, according to Fox19 in Cincinnati.
Sandmann’s attorneys Todd McMurtry and Lin Wood filed a $275 million lawsuit against CNN last March following an incident in January in Washington, D.C. involving Covington Catholic High School students at the the March For Life. Videos of the incident showed Sandmann and Nathan Phillips, an indigenous man who was participating in the Indigenous Peoples March. CNN and other national media outlets broadcast the video in a misleading way insinuating that Sandmann and several students wearing MAGA hats were taunting Phillips.
Attorneys for the Sandmann family accused the network of “bullying” the Covington Catholic High School student, who wore a red Make America Great Again ball cap, to push a political agenda, which CNN has denied.
“Contrary to its ‘Facts First’ public relations ploy, CNN ignored the facts and put its anti-Trump agenda first in waging a 7-day media campaign of false, vicious attacks against Nicholas, a young boy who was guilty of little more than wearing a souvenir Make America Great Again cap,” said the 58-page lawsuit filed in March.
Todd McMurtry told Fox News that lawsuits against “as many as 13 other defendants will be filed in 30 to 40 days.”
Among them: ABC, CBS, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, NPR, Slate, The Hill, and Gannett which owns the Cincinnati Inquirer and North Jersey Media , as well as miscellaneous other small outfits, according to McMurtry. Separate lawsuits against the Washington Post and NBC have already been filed, he added.
The kid is a snot…a bad reflection on his school.
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You are a moron and an embarrassment to Ridgewood.
This kid showed poise and restraint way beyond his years.
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An asset to his school.
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Respect your elders…even if you disagree with them.
Don’t abuse your youngers, even if they are white, male, Catholic, etc….
He was a wize ass .
Fake news. Just like Voigt
Watch the whole video. The kid was very calm and was being attacked verbally by not only the indian guy but also a racist black hebrew group.
Look at the smirk….you live in Kentucky, don’t be so smug.
i love the losers still trying to defend CNN
“Look at the smirk….you live in Kentucky, don’t be so smug.”
you live in NJ and are defending CNN even after they paid out
and the losers promoting the killers in Jersey City
kids need reminding that one day you go to a job interview to try to support your family..Good luck young Turks..
is there something wrong with you ?
C’mon James. CNN settles a frivolous lawsuit for an undisclosed amount of money to avoid paying legal fees and you think that equates to some sort of “guilt” on their part? It’s called business and it’s how these types of lawsuits are settled everyday. The kids a snot.
still defending lying scum bags ?