Native American leader Nathan Phillips told Free Press about being harassed in Washington DC in incident seen on video: "I'm a Marine Corps veteran and I know what that mob mentality can be like. ... It was ugly...the looks in these young men's faces. ... hatred in their faces."
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Nathan Phillips told me he moved to Michigan 10 years ago after his wife was diagnosed with cancer and they were getting treatments from a university's cancer research center. Born in Nebraska, he was put into foster care as a kid and later joined the Marines.
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"If their own instructors, their own teachers, their own chaperones, would have handled the situation right from the beginning, it would never have happened," Nathan Phillips told the Detroit Free Press. "I would have never been bothered with it."
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Full story: Native American leader in metro Detroit: I saw 'mob mentality' in students. The Detroit Free Press spoke for 45 minutes with Nathan Phillips, the Michigan man seen in video with Kentucky students mocking him in Washington D.C.https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/01/20/native-american-leader-nathan-phillips-recounts-incident-video/2630256002/ …
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Native American leader Nathan Phillips of MI said before the Kentucky students jeered at him: “They were in the process of attacking these four black individuals. I was there and I was witnessing all of this ... As this kept on going on and escalating..."https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/01/20/native-american-leader-nathan-phillips-recounts-incident-video/2630256002/ …
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Native leader Nathan Phillips: "There was that moment when I realized I've put myself between beast and prey. These young men were beastly and these old black individuals was their prey, and I stood in between them and so they needed their pounds of flesh"https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/01/20/native-american-leader-nathan-phillips-recounts-incident-video/2630256002/ …
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U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell praises Nathan Phillips, who lives in her district:https://twitter.com/RepDebDingell/status/1086989256424345601 …
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Student from high school in Kentucky releases statement, saying we were not hateful in incident in DC with Native American group. Regarding Nathan of Michigan: "I am not going to comment on the words or account of Mr. Phillips, as I don’t know him...”https://www.freep.com/story/news/2019/01/21/kentucky-catholic-student-statement-washington-protests/2635032002/ …
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Pres. Trump just tweeted in support of the Catholic students who had encounter with Native American group at rally in Washington DC: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1087541961295314945 …
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Louisville PR firm played a key role in Covington Catholic controversy, defending the students: “Scott Jennings, a conservative political commentator and a columnist for the (newspaper) Courier Journal, is the third partner in RunSwitch,” the PR firm.https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2019/01/21/covington-catholic-runswitch-pr-helped-student-in-controversial-video/2638400002/ …
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New video shows the students from a Catholic school mocking Native American leader Nathan Phillips of Michigan:https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1087394069419122689 …
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"I am honored to know the Omaha Nation elder and activist Nathan Phillips. I walked nearly 40 miles in the snow and ice alongside him last February, in a four-day prayer walk he organized in North Dakota" for Standing Rock movementhttps://www.vogue.com/article/nathan-phillips-activist-song-peaceful-resistance-hope …
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Native American activist in Michigan Nathan Phillips offers to meet Covington Catholic students he said were mocking him at Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.https://www.freep.com/story/news/2019/01/22/native-american-nathan-phillips-covington-catholic/2644728002/ …
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