Covington Catholic High School Nicholas Sandmann’s attorney has filed a lawsuit on his behalf against NBCUniversal for $275 million over the network’s news coverage last January, The Hill reports.
Sandmann participated in the March for Life in Washington, D.C., last January, where he came into contact with Native American activist Nathan Phillips, who was participating in the Indigenous Peoples March. A video of their confrontation went viral and was eventually covered by dozens of news outlets, including CNN and The Washington Post, which are both being sued by attorneys on behalf of Sandmann.
Sandmann’s attorney, Todd V. McMurtry, announced the lawsuit against NBC on Twitter Thursday morning.
“Today, [attorney L. Lin Wood] and I filed a $275,000,000 lawsuit against NBCUniversal on behalf of Nicholas Sandmann. The facts of the suit show the anti-Trump narrative NBC pushed so hard.”
The complaint claims that NBCUniversal “attacked” Sandmann “by relying heavily on biased and unreliable sources without conducting any reasonable investigation of the circumstances surrounding the January 18 incident.”
It goes on to allege that “NBCUniversal published and broadcast a false storyline – portraying the January 18 incident as a hate crime even after the truth surfaced” and “continued to cling to its description of the January 18 incident as a hate crime in an effort to cover up its journalistic failures and its inaccurate reporting.”
NBCUniversal did not respond to the Hill’s or Fox News’ requests for comment on the lawsuit.
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