MAGA Teens Harassed Native Elder at Indigenous Peoples March
It’s just a group of restive Catholic hooligans as another day passes in Trump’s america.
As the Cincinnati Enquirer reports, the group of young men in MAGA hats seen harassing marchers in the now-viral video appear to be students at the Covington Catholic High School, which sends a delegation of its students to Washington to attend the anti-abortion March For Life annually. This year, the rally was held the same day as the Indigenous Peoples March.
The video shows one of the teen boys standing right in the face of a Native elder, as others are seen chanting and taunting around him. Indian Country Today reports that the elder in question is Nathan Phillips, an Omaha elder who is also a veteran of the Vietnam War and the former director of the Native Youth Alliance. One attendee who shared video of the incident on Instagram wrote that she was “pushed and laughed at by teenage boys who grew up to believe that their lives are more important than ours.”
Another post describing the incident reads, in part: “As we tried to move through the crowd, they closed in tighter around us, and wouldn’t allow anyone to pass. It was obvious that they wanted any excuse for the day to turn violent. They repeatedly ‘bumped’ into us, trying to agitate people into confrontation. But instead, the very few of us left stood quietly, trying to remain calm. I was seething with anger and rage and disappointment. I was so confused about why these boys would go out of their way to harass such a small, vulnerable group.”
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