http://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/13/diocese-investigation-clears-covington-students-racist-offensive-speech-d-c-incident/
... Ah well, I trust that this report absolving the kids of misconduct will convince their critics belatedly. It's not like the human garbage that populates the Internet is known to double down on a bad opinion just to avoid admitting they were wrong.
"Human garbage that populates the Internet" ... that definitely includes you derelicts of the Further Freedom From Thought board.
The report, prepared by Greater Cincinnati Investigation, Inc. and dated Feb. 11, employed four licensed investigators for approximately 240 hours to take statements from students and chaperones, as well as to interview third-party witnesses and review about 50 hours of video. Investigators were not able to interview either Phillips or Sandmann in person and instead reviewed the student's written account.
The investigators said they found no evidence that the students responded in an offensive manner to the Black Hebrew Israelites or that they chanted "Build the Wall." After asking chaperones, they performed a school cheer, according to the report, to drown out the Black Hebrew Israelites ...
According to the report, one of the chaperones told students that if "they engaged in a verbal exchange with the Black Hebrew Israelites, they would receive detention when returning to school." ...
The local bishop, who initially believed that the kids were the instigators with Phillips, was delighted that the results of the investigation will let him put this matter behind him:
In truth, taking everything into account, our students were placed in a situation that was at once bizarre and even threatening. Their reaction to the situation was, given the circumstances, expected and one might even say laudatory. These students had come to Washington, D.C. to support life. They marched peacefully with hundreds of thousands of others - young and old and in-between - to further the cause of life. These young high school students could never have expected what they experienced on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial while waiting for the busses to take them home. Their stance there was surely a pro-life stance. I commend them. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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