Covington High student's legal team sues Washington Post

I would tend to agree, but at the same time, I also want to see an example set to the others in the media who intend to neglect their duty to seek all the facts and report the truth, rather than push their bias. Hopefully this kid demonstrates maturity and uses the money for productive things.

I would love to see a $500M settlement distributed something like: $1 million in compensatory damages, paid to the kid; another couple in lawyer fees; and the rest in punitive damages, paid out in the form of fines (to pay for that government's cost of running the trial) and toward a non-profit (or group of non-profits) dedicated to things like reducing racial tension or unbiased print media. WaPo loses BIG, everyone else wins.

Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin You were probably the bully in your school wearing that face, otherwise you would recognize the smug look of a rich white kid that knows that nothing can touch him.

I wasn't so lucky as a kid, I saw it a lot, and even when you fight back, that look doesn't change.

He and his friends were going back and forth with adults, and it was escalating, that is why he was wrong.

Wow, now you've resorted to name calling. First and only warning... be respectful and I will continue to do the same. Next time I vote down.

Again, you know nothing about me. Nothing. I have had my share of being bullied on so many levels and I despise those who resort to it. I will thank you not to assume I partake in it simply because I have a different perspective.

That said, the boy was not surrounded by adults and if you listen to the whole video and watched the actions of the protesters you'd know that. They were the ones acting like children.

Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin You do what you have to do to make yourself feel better dude. But I will point out that the original post and several replies have been making commentary that I could take offense to if I were a snowflake on that level.

If I hit a little too close to home, maybe you should be looking at that not.

Close to home? No. You're simply name calling and there's no need for it. Grow up SPC...

None of your points can be backed up as you are allowing a emotional perception of a single picture to make a determination that a kid is some spoiled white brat who intended to disrespect a Native American man. The video in its entirety has proven this to be false and I think deep down you know this. But instead you refuse to let go of the original premise propagated by fake accounts on Twitter and subsequently the media. That's a problem you need to come to terms with.

But the thing is, you started this thread with the premise that we're somehow attempting to deny freedom of the press. As the many posters on this thread have stated, you're wrong. But instead of debating your premise, you moved on to focus on your perception of the kid, implying he was attempting to provoke the protesters. Even if he were, so what? He has the right to speech and the speech they used was in no way deemed as racist or disrespectful to the protesters present. In fact, it was quite the opposite.

You claim to know what it's like to be bullied... Well then you're missing the big picture here. These kids obviously support our President and they were not shy about it. But then some fake Twitter accounts turns that support into a false suggestion that they were acting in a racist and a derogatory manner around people (protesters) who were actually demonstrating that exact behavior. In turn the media and Hollywood "elite" come bearing down on them without the facts, suggesting violence and harm to these kids. And you want to tell me they were being bullies? Wake up.