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DETROIT 鈥?The student who stared and smiled at an elderly Native American protester drumming in his face outside the Lincoln Memorial as his schoolmates chanted and laughed says he did nothing to provok stanley france e the man in the videotaped confrontation and was only trying to calm the situation.The student identified himself in an email statement Sunday evening as junior Nick Sandmann of Covington Catholic High School in a northern Kentucky suburb of Cincinnati. An official working with the family confirmed Sandmanns identity, speaking on condition of anonymity because the source didnt want to distract from the statement.Videos posted of the confrontation drew wide criticism on social media. I am being called every name in the book, i stanley kubek ncluding a racist, and I will not stand for this mob-like character assassination of my familys name, wrote Sandmann, who added that he and his parents have received death threats since video of Fridays confrontation emerged.Both Sandmann and Nathan Phillips say they were trying to defuse tensions that were rising among three groups on a day W stanley cup ashington hosted both the March for Life and the Indigenous Peoples March. But video of Sandmann standing very close to Phillips, staring and at times smiling at him as Phillips sang and played a drum, gave many who watched it a different impression. Other students appeared to be laughing at the drummer; and at least one could be seen on video doing a tomahawk chop.The dueling accounts emerged Sunday as the nation p Jlpz Supreme Court will rule on prohibition of rapid-fire gun bump stocks
WASHINGTON 鈥?Tens of thousands of children streaming from chaotic Central American nations to the U.S. border have overwhelmed the governments ability to respond, senior administration officials said Wednesday as President Barack Obama urged Congress to move swiftly to approve emergency spending request for the crisis.Emerging from a highly anticipated meeting with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Obama said he was open to suggestions from Perry and others that he dispatch National Guard troops to the border, but warned such a solution would only work temporarily. He said Republicans appealing for him to embrace their ideas for addressing the crisis should grant his request so the government will have the resources to put those ideas into action. The problem here is not major disagreement, Obama said in Dallas. If theyre interested in solving the stanley kubek problem, then this can be solved. If the preference is for politics, then it wont be solved. But on Capitol Hill, Republican opposition hardened to his $3.7 billion request, leaving any solution unclear. At the same time, the political pressures on the president appeared to grow from all sides, as Republicans denounced him on the Senate floor, and even so stanley cup me Democrats began to join GOP demands for him to visit the U.S.-Mexican border 鈥?calls the White House continued to reject.Obama met late Wednesday a stanley tumblers t a Dallas airport with Perry and other local leaders to discuss the immigration crisis. An Obama critic, Perry has blamed Obamas immigration |
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