New videos bring more light to rally confrontation between Nebraska man, students

Over the weekend, outrage spread as a video made its rounds across social media.

It appears to show catholic school students at a March for Life rally surrounding Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder from Nebraska.

One student seems to be staring Phillips down, while others chant around him. 

But another video showed what happened before then.  A group identifying themselves as the Black Hebrew Israelites appears to be taunting several groups, including natives, a catholic priest and the high school boys.

At one point in the video, Phillips appears to approach the school students banging a drum while singing.  He said he was trying to diffuse the situation between the other groups.

“I realized I had put myself in a really dangerous situation,” Phillips said.  “You know there’s like, here’s a group of people who were angry at somebody else and I put myself in front of that.”

Some of the students started chanting along with the native song, but Phillips doesn’t think they were being friendly, especially with the student standing in front of him.

“Fear, not for myself, but fear for the next generations,” he said.  “Fear where this country’s going.  Fear for those youths.”

The boy standing in front of Phillips has been identified as Nick Sandmann of Kentucky.

In a statement, Sandmann said he didn’t make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves toward Phillips and that he believed by remaining motionless and calm, he was helping diffuse the situation.

Covington Catholic School said they will take appropriate action against the students.  But a Kentucky congressman said they should be commended for helping calm things down.