![]() ![]() In a video that gained national attention, Sandmann was in an encounter with Omaha tribe elder Nathan Phillips, who was beating a hand-held drum and singing at the Indigenous Peoples March at the Lincoln Memorial on the same day.Īnother video that surfaced days later provided additional context for the encounter, but the first video had gone viral, touching off widespread controversy as photos of the teenager and the red Make America Great Again hat he was wearing spread across social media. Sandmann in 2019 became a national news story when as a student at Covington Catholic High School he was in Washington, DC, for the annual March for Life rally. But he later reinstated the case, narrowing its scope significantly. The judge overseeing the case previously dismissed the lawsuit against The Post last summer. The settlement will allow the newspaper to avoid a lengthy and potentially unpredictable trial. “Thanks to my family & millions of you who have stood your ground by supporting me,” Sandmann tweeted. Sandmann celebrated the settlement on Twitter. “The terms of the settlement are confidential.”m “Nicholas Sandmann agreed to settle with the Post because the Post was quick to publish the whole truth-through its follow-up coverage and editor’s notes,” Sandmann’s attorney, Todd McMurtry, said in an email. An attorney for the student, Nicholas Sandmann, also declined to disclose the terms of the deal. “We are pleased that we have been able to reach a mutually agreeable resolution of the remaining claims in this lawsuit,” Kris Coratti, a spokesperson for The Post, said in a short statement.Ĭoratti declined to disclose the terms of the settlement. The Washington Post settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a teenager who was at the center of a viral video controversy, the newspaper and an attorney representing the family said on Friday. ![]()
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