According to WCPO in Cincinnati, attorneys for the diocese hired Greater Cincinnati Investigation to look into the incident after videos posted online showed CovCath students who were in Washington for the March for Life rally encountering demonstrators from the Indigenous People's March. In one video that first went viral, CovCath student Nick Sandmann, wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, was shown in a close encounter with Omaha elder Nathan Phillips, who was beating a drum and chanting.

According to the investigators’ report: