Chaperones of Covington teens say THEY were ‘targeted’ by ‘staged’ Native American confrontation

Adults who were serving as chaperones for a group of teens from Covington Catholic High School at the center of a media-generated controversy involving a Native American activist say they were “targeted” and that a widely-publicized confrontation was “staged.”

Following the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, a number of students from the school, many white and donning MAGA hats, were embroiled in an incident involving Nathan Phillips, a Leftist Native American activist, as well as a group of Black Hebrew Israelites.

Early portrayals by the mainstream media (MSM) made it seem as though the students initiated contact with Phillips and the Black Israelites, though subsequent videos of the incident which surfaced later showed just the opposite.

Val Andreev, a parent and a chaperone, told theÂ Cincinnati EnquirerÂ that the group of teens wearing â€œMake America Great Againâ€ hats proved to be a very visible target for those seeking to score political points against the president.

â€œOur boys were set up for this event,â€ Andreev said. â€œIt was staged.â€

Other parents also said that the teen boys had no intention of stirring up trouble.

â€œOur boys did nothing. No violence. They did not attack those gentlemen. They stood there waiting for their bus,â€ Jim Wilson toldÂ WKRC.

He added that the boys’ curiosity of what was happening around them was misinterpreted by media.



