Covington Catholic high school student have been receiving death threats ever since the now famous confrontation between students from the school and native American activist Nathan Philips.
Two of the students are now speaking out about the threats they’ve received:
https://twitter.com/thecjpearson/status/1087499678076334081
https://twitter.com/thecjpearson/status/1087491324088074240
It also looks like the kids are preparing to launch a series of defamation suits against the media and others:
https://twitter.com/thecjpearson/status/1087115979807748096
The damage to these teens has been “incalculable” as actress and outspoken conservative Patricia Heaton explains:
1. I'm seeing what I believe to be sincere apologies from some journalists and verified media persons regarding their lack of professionalism in rushing to judgement re the #CovingtonCatholic situation.
— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) January 21, 2019
2. These apologies are welcome and necessary, but they don't address the damage that cannot be undone which was inflicted upon young people who are about to embark on adulthood – applying to colleges, looking for employment, etc.
— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) January 21, 2019
3. These young people will forever have these smears follow them through their life every time they proffer their resume with the word "Covington" on it. It will also affect anyone who ever has or ever will attend that school. The damage is incalculable.
— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) January 21, 2019
4. And yet those who perpetrated this destruction, no matter how unintended, are still at their jobs, with nary a consequence for their reckless behavior.
— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) January 21, 2019
5. It seems to me that an apology without some kind of accompanying action which speaks to the seriousness of their transgression – a suspension from work, some loss of pay – renders any apology empty.
— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) January 21, 2019
6. Some kind of compensatory action would go a long way in signaling their recognition of the seriousness of their transgression and help to restore what's left of the public's very fragile trust in their reputations as trustworthy journalists.
— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) January 21, 2019
However, I don't believe this will happen.
— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) January 21, 2019
