Trevor Noah Celebrates 'First Amendment' Rights in Covington Controversy
Trevor Noah waded into the Covington controversy last night, criticizing the media for its vilification of the MAGA-hat wearing Catholic schoolboys who were pictured apparently engaged in an aggressive standoff with a Native American man in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington after a march.
More videos later emerged complicating the story, showing that the encounter had been preceded by a radical group, the Hebrew Israelites, shouting slurs at the students for some time before Nathan Phillips—a Native American activist involved in a third demonstration—moved to come between the groups.
Noah criticized the media for not conducting rudimentary research on the story, which would have revealed that, prior to Phillips entering the fray, the boys were being harassed and abused by the protesters.
In video freely available online, the Hebrew Israelites hurl a sustained volley of racist abuse at the boys, describing them as “dusty-ass crackers” and “future school shooters.”
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