Why were a teenager in a red cap and a native american vietnam veteran in the news this weekend, parts of a story that eventually appear to jhave numerous sides to it?

On January 18, Nathan Phillips, a Native American Marine veteran and tribal elder, was faced with a group of white students from Covington Catholic High School in Washington D.C. It was at the end of the Indigenous Peoples’ Day March and Rally.

A video that shows the white students facing down Phillips went viral online. Nick Sandmann, the student who is seen in the video, later issued a statement claiming they were not taunting nor intimidating the Native American demonstrators. He stated that they had actually started school spirit chants after being shouted at by a separate group from the Black Hebrew Israelites.

- "schenck v. united states, case in which the u.s. supreme court ruled on march 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the u.s. constitution's first amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.” "

- speech aimed to potentially create danger could be banned.

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