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On Saturday, people were outraged after video surfaced appearing to show Catholic students attending the March for Life harassing Native American Vietnam veteran Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial. NBC Nightly News plastered the screen with the boys' faces that evening while calling them racist. But addition video exposed that Phillips was the one who approached them banging a drum in the face of one kid. But during NBC’s Sunday Today, they didn’t offer an update with the new development.
“A troubling scene many are calling racist, played out in Washington yesterday, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Some students harassing an older Native American, of yet a Vietnam vet in the midst of a special ceremony,” anchor Jose Diaz Balart blasted.
Even though she would later admit “it's unclear how the event started” and that there was “confusion”, NBC reporter Tammy Leitner wasted little time smearing the students. “The video appears to show dozens of youths wearing Make America Great Again hats mocking Native American elder and Vietnam veteran Nathan Phillips. Many jeering and others looking on,” she reported.
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