Lawyer for Covington Catholic HS Families Threatens Lawsuits Against Media Unless They Retract False Stories

[Valin]

PJ Media

Debra Heine

January 21, 2019

Thanks to the sloppy, one-sided reporting of the malicious, agenda-driven media, a group of Catholic high school teenagers and their families have become the subjects of threats and harassment from a hateful online outrage mob. Their only sins? Being white, Catholic, and supporters of the president.

The full story has emerged in the wake of the fake news blitzkrieg over the weekend, and the media outlets that spread defamatory smears against the kids are now being warned to correct and retract their stories or face a lawsuit. Contrary to the media's malicious narrative, the kids were not racist rednecks mobbing a Native American elder with hateful slurs. It was quite the opposite.

Los Angeles-based trial lawyer Robert Barnes offered to represent the Covington families for free should they decide to sue the New York Times. 

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Robert Barnes @Barnes_Law

 

I will represent the kids for free if they want to sue @maggieNYT for obvious libel.

Maggie Haberman

 

✔ @maggieNYT

There are dozens of students laughing and egging on the behavior. Will be interesting to see if anyone is actually expelled, as officials suggest is possible https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/covington-catholic-high-school-nathan-phillips.html …

 

7:51 AM - Jan 20, 2019

 

Barnes told PJ Media that he was working with the families to sue the media outlets that defamed them.

He said that "anyone who doesn't correct and retract" their false smears would be subject to a lawsuit and that updated stories merely indicating "a more complex picture has emerged" would not necessarily be enough.

When asked if such stories would count as a retraction, he replied that it "depends."

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[Valin]

Feb 3, 2019

 

 

Leftist Media And Celebrities Face MASSIVE Covington Catholic High School Lawsuit. The lawyers representing Nick Sandmann have sent over 50 letters as the first step in libel and defamation cases in the MAGA hat / MAGA Teen incident in Washington DC.

Many leftist and far left personalities produced false statements or encouraged people to harass the Covington Catholic High school students following their incident with Nathan Phillips, the native american who lied about what happened in DC. These individuals can expect letters as well as major news outlets.

The media uncritically parroted activist rhetoric and falsehoods and will now face the repercussions of publishing fake news.