Covington Teen in Viral Video with NA sues WaPo

[downtoearth]

Teenager in 'viral face-off' protest video sues Washington Post for $250 million

The Kentucky teenager at the center of a confrontation last month with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial has sued The Washington Post, alleging that the newspaper made “false and defamatory accusations” against him in its coverage of the episode.


Nicholas Sandmann, 16, a student at Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., is seeking $250 million in damages from The Post — the same amount Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos paid for ownership of the paper in 2013, according to a copy of the suit Sandmann’s attorneys posted on their website.

Among various complaints, the suit alleges that The Post “engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism” to target Sandmann “because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against” President Donald Trump.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/20/teenager-lincoln-memorial-protest-sues-washington-post-250-million/

[erbear]

Oh FFS. I beg you, WaPo. Do not throw money at this pathetic kid and his family.

[centralsquare]

Fuck everything.

[nicbreeful]

Now that all his scholarships are dried up, he's looking for college money from somewhere, eh?

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

I am so fucking done with this family and the whole white boy MAGA hat entitlement culture. You still can’t tell me he and his buddies didn’t know they were about to start some shit and now that goddamn family is looking to “punish” a newspaper and get some more money they don’t need.

[anodyne]

I hope Bezos has some leftover "fuck you" money from AMI to use up. He better not bend to these people.

[juliej]

Excited for discovery! This guy's text messages are going to be... insightful.

[aliciabella]

Feb 21, 2019 11:40:34 GMT -5 juliej said:

Excited for discovery! This guy's text messages are going to be... insightful.

When is that being released?

[sugarglider]

Feb 21, 2019 14:17:23 GMT -5 aliciabella said:

Feb 21, 2019 11:40:34 GMT -5 juliej said:

Excited for discovery! This guy's text messages are going to be... insightful.

When is that being released?

Discovery isn’t public. We’ll see what gets filed with motions, though, most likely. Will probably be a year or two before WaPo’s MSJ.