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A high school student from Covington, Kentucky, sued the Washington Post for defamation on Tuesday, claiming the newspaper falsely accused him of racist acts and instigating a confrontation with a Native American activist in a January videotaped incident at the Lincoln Memorial.<\/span><\/p>\n The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Kentucky by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann, 16, seeks $250 million in damages, the amount that Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com and the world\u2019s richest person, paid for the Post in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n The lawsuit claims that the newspaper \u201cwrongfully targeted and bullied\u201d the teen to advance its bias against President Donald Trump because Sandmann is a white Catholic who wore a Make America Great Again souvenir cap on a school field trip to the March for Life anti-abortion rally in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 18.<\/span><\/p>\n The Washington Post\u2019s Vice President for Communications Kristine Coratti Kelly said: \u201cWe are reviewing a copy of the lawsuit and we plan to mount a vigorous defense.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In a photo that went viral from the incident, Sandmann is seen standing face to face with Native American activist Nathan Phillips. Sandmann stares smiling at him while Phillips sings and plays his drum.<\/span><\/p>\n The incident sparked outrage on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n In a statement, Sandmann\u2019s Atlanta-based lawyer, Lin Wood, said additional similar lawsuits would be filed in the weeks ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n A private investigation firm retained by Covington Diocese in Park Hills, Kentucky, found in a report released last week no evidence the teenagers provoked a confrontation.<\/span><\/p>\n The students were met at the Lincoln Memorial by offensive statements from members of the Black Hebrew Israelites, the report said.<\/span><\/p>\n The investigation also determined that the students did not direct any racist or offensive comments toward Phillips although several performed a \u201ctomahawk chop\u201d to the beat of his drum.<\/span><\/p>\n Phillips claimed in a separate video that he heard the students chanting \u201cbuild that wall,\u201d during the encounter, a reference to Trump\u2019s pledge to build a barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n The investigators said they found no evidence of such a chant and that Phillips did not respond to multiple attempts to contact him.<\/span><\/p>\n Reporting by Keith Coffman in DenverWriting by Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; editing by Bill Tarrant, Bill Berkrot and Cynthia Osterman<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The lawsuit claims that the Washington Post \u201cwrongfully targeted and bullied\u201d the Covington teen to advance its argument against President Donald Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183984,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183982\/revisions\/183984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}FIRST OF MANY<\/h2>\n