'Sup you beautiful bastards, hope you're having a fantastic Monday
Welcome back to the Philip deFranco show and let's just jump into it. The first thing we're going to talk about today
is this situation that blew up over the weekend over a story that was initially described as a standoff between Native American man and
Teenagers in MAGA hats. It's an incident that happened on Friday in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington
DC near the tail end of the indigenous people's march. The indigenous
Protester in the clip ended up being identified as Nathan Phillips according to reports
he's a member of Nebraska's Omaha tribe and a veteran and the students in the video were identified as Covington Catholic high school students from
Kentucky. Reportedly they were in town
Participating in the annual March for Life rally. And the video and images from this blew up quickly prompting many to call for the school
To take action along with the videos that went viral one of the images that went viral was this picture with text reading at the close
of the indigenous peoples march and rally the few of us left lingering to chat and meet were confronted and surrounded by 50 to 70
young people wearing trump's hats t-shirts
and other apparel. The group consisted of mostly white men who sought to intimidate mock and scare us with a mob mentality in order to
silence a
demonstration that was mostly concluded. The group outnumbered us and enclosed our small group chanting build the wall and other Trump isms
The group was clearly looking for any
opportunity to get violent and they consistently infringed upon our space inching closer and closer bumping into us and daring us to get physically. They surrounded
us screaming cajoling and mocking the elder singer with intentionally disrespectful dancing and attempting to chant/sing louder than him
He did not break focus or move an inch for the entirety of the encounter and perhaps the saddest part of all
is that his song was medicine to calm the anger and toxicity of these men. And along with this picture
we see other videos blowing up characterizing the situation as all of these kids surrounding the elder mocking him. With this initial story publicly,
We see a lot happen
We see the school and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington issue a joint statement
saying "we condemn the actions of the Covington Catholic High School students towards Nathan Phillips specifically and Native Americans in general we extend our deepest
Apologies to mr. Phillips
this behavior is opposed to the Church's teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person matter is being investigated and we will take
appropriate action up to and including expulsion"
We also saw a lot of people take to social media to condemn what they thought looked like blatant hate
And we saw people from all sides speaking out about what was featured in these videos
and with this you had a lot of people specifically looking to the right to see what the response would be and you had people
like Megan McCain tweeting:
I am gutted over this video a veteran Nathan Phillips being harassed by high school boys. My family and father have deep love and respect
to all Native Americans
You have people like Charlie Kirk writing: "High school students make really foolish choices a time. Every person reading this tweet did things you regret in
your life. The media's public character
assassination of these high school kids who obviously made a mistake is sickening and typical of the left even at places like the National Review
that put up an article reading: "The Covington students
might as well have just spit on the cross" with quotes like "they mock a serious, frail-looking older man and gloat in their momentary
role as Roman soldiers to his Christ. "Bullying is a worn-out word and doesn't convey the full extent of the evil on display here
And even had March for life itself
distancing itself from the boys saying the pro-life movement at its core is a movement of love and the
Reprehensible behavior shown in the video in no way represents the 46 years and millions of people who have peacefully and respectfully gathered in Washington
DC to stand up for the unborn and also because I think it's important to hold ourselves accountable
I mean, this is something that I personally commented on over the weekend as well
I like many others commented on the
information that was being thrown out there by all sides and I joined making became and what she added in a follow-up tweet after she
Deleted the previous one saying 'I like many others may have reacted too quickly'
You know, I do apologize for that because yes while in the past I've said over and over I am not perfect
I'm not infallible
I'll always try to do my best and I will mess up, I really do apologize for
Reacting to this situation that I mean
Yes, based off of everything that was out there and how you had people from all different sides denouncing it. I thought okay
Well, this is the situation wish that instead
I'd waited till Monday to have my team just scour through everything
But it's also part of the reason why I wanted to talk about this story today on this channel with a much larger
Audience the reason myself and others including the individuals and groups
I just previously mentioned are now speaking out about this now is because it turns out you know those clips that we initially got what
People have described it as either being kind of on the softest touch in complete all the way to just completely
Misrepresenting though the kids in this video. So what is the other information?
Well, it turns out there was a whole different third group involved and this is something Nathan Phillips touched on in several follow-up interviews
where he explained that he inserted himself between the two groups. "That was a build up of about two hours of
back-and-forth between the Black Israelites and
The students first they came there, there was about six of them they went away
They came back with about twenty they went away
They came back with about sixty they surrounded these black kids these black guys
Taunting them
and throwing
You know back and forth racial taunts back and forth and was it then they went away that sixty went nearly came back
hundred maybe 200 of them and then they were just a big mob just
Ugly
ugly mob when I see what was happening right at the end and where it was getting to cause
There was just like really that one little spark and that mob would have descended on those four guys and ripped them apart
That's what it looked like that's what it felt like
So when I started singing our songs our prayers to God
That drum is a instrument that we use to communicate to God
and
so when I started that drumbeat it was in my mind, that, you know, I'm
Praying God, we're at our indigenous peoples March we want to end this in a good way
But look look at my America here. Look at my white and black of brothers over here that they're tearing at each other
Keep in mind we're not at the end of the story yet
But that already paints a different picture much of the initial narrative was around Nathan Phillips and his small group being surrounded by these boys
Then we got this new information that Phillips himself inserted himself into the situation and then group something has also been since verified by a different camera angle with that said over the weekend
We saw people from different groups trying to point blame in different directions
According to heavy the mother of one of the teens the rally sent them an email
Disputing the story the many helmets recovering writing 'shame on you. Were you there?
Do you hear the names that people were calling these boys?
It was shameful you witness the black Muslims yelling profanities and videotaping trying to get something to further your narrative of hatred did you know?
That this quote man came up to this one boy and drummed in his face shame on you only reporting what you want more fake
news.' But then
Meanwhile, we reportedly had one of the Hebrew Israelites go on Facebook live and deny if the group had been the instigators "your children
Was over there mocking us while we was teaching standing to the sides with their little MAGA hats
running their mouths with their little MAGA hats on. nobody started your children to mount up on us and surround us and start chanting and
mocking this eldest
And doing so called indigenous dances mocking
The the rally the the so called
March. your children was there to mock the March." Then by Sunday We started seeing a video blow up
That was a nearly a two hour video of the entire incident and it gave everyone a much better
Look at the build-up to this intense standoff. In the video appears to show dozens of Covington students standing on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial but it also shows that the black Hebrew
Israelites who said that they were there preaching their beliefs were shouting
insults and other combative comments at both the Native Americans and the students. "A bunch of demons always talking out their ass
Yeah, you got these pompous bastards come down hand in the middle of a native rally with they dirty-ass
hat on
With they dusty ass hat on
That's right
We then see the students gather together and begin chanting and jumping around
We then see one of the kids rush off take his shirt off and this continues
We then see Phillips enter with a group of people behind him and it appears that he faces the school group
He pauses at the base of the stairs before starting up towards the crowd of teenagers
also on Sunday around the same time this new info was being shared the teenager who went viral and the video came forward with a
Lengthy statement. He identified himself as an Nick Sandman a junior at Covington and said he arrived at the Lincoln Memorial where students were told to wait
For their buses saying 'When we arrived we noticed for African-American protesters
I am not sure what they were protesting and I did not interact with them. I did hear them direct derogatory insults at our school group
They called us racist bigots white crackers homophobic slur and incest kids
They also taunted an african-american student from my school by telling him that we would quote
'Harvest his organs' then adding 'because we were being loudly attacked and talented in public a student in our group asked one of our teacher
Chaperones for permission to begin our school spirit chance to counter the hateful things or being shouted at our group our chaperone gave us permission
to use our school chants
we would not have done that without obtaining permission from the adults in charge of our group and adding our chants were loud because we
Wanted to drown out the hateful comments that were being shouted at us by the protesters
He also denied here in any of his fellow students make hateful comments specifically denying the build the wall chant claim
He also described his encounter with Phillips saying he locked eyes with me and approached me coming within inches of my face
He played his drum the entire time. He was in my face. I never interacted with this protester. I did not speak to him
I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves. Nick said that he was afraid since from his perspective
This was now the second group of adult protesters trying to provoke the teens saying that he thought by standing there motionless
He was actually helping to defuse the situation
And adding that his Involvement ended when a teacher said the buses had arrived
So he simply walked away and Sandman also hit on important notes in regards to Nathan Phillips saying I harbor no ill will for this
person
I respect this person's right to protest and engage in free speech activities and I support his chanting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
Any day of the week
I believe he should rethink his tactics of invading the personal space of others that is his choice to make adding
I have read that. Mr. Phillips is a veteran of the United States Marines
I thank him for his service and I'm grateful to anyone who puts on the uniform to defend our nation if anyone has earned the
Right to speak freely
it is a US Marine veteran and he explained that he just wanted to clear up the misinformation about a man in school since he
Has been receiving hate and death threats over this viral clip
So as far as the final things that I'll say around the story one
If you're one of the people actually issuing threats of harm
Or you're fine with that being thrown at the people involved in the situation that is ridiculous and disgusting
I stand by the
initial reason I was reacting to the situation of saying we need to point out and acknowledge that hates not going anywhere except with a
Now expanded footage appears that the only bigotry that was very very obvious came from the black Hebrew Israelites antagonizing
Offending throwing out homophobic slurs and in my opinion also being racist
Make America great again practice also regarding the several claims that people were chanting or saying build the wall
I've had the team scrubbing through footage. I have not found any evidence that the students said this instead
We've only been able to find what appears to be one of the people preaching talking about the wall
Though we do have audio someone from Nathan Phillips group saying go back to Europe
Then there's a separate clip of an individual talking about stealing land is just how it works
Land gets stolen, that's how it works
But for me personally with the situation being Nathan Phillips approaching this group seeing all of those kids jumping around
Dancing it
it's now way hard for me to see those same clips and see it as them mocking him or
Antagonizing him or trying to drown him out if anything it appears that you just have a lot of these kids
in this group that are just completely confused as to what the heck is happening
I mean you can see that from some of the facial expressions at one point. You even hear someone say something
So if it's true that you just had all of these kids here kind of waiting for a bus and they're initially dealing with this
Other group that seemed to be screaming offensive things
So then the group of kids is already doing their own
chant apparently to drown out the offensive things then you have Nathan Phillips inserting himself into the
situation banging on a drum then you have kids that seemingly are trying to go along with it or are just
Confused because this group of kids has already just been dealing with this hostile group when all of a sudden Nathan Phillips is very close
to someone with a drum, you know, there's confusion as this hostile even with all of that said I mean
I'm still seeing different accounts pop up different claims
But ultimately that is where we are right now and if like I guess if I can be, you know
Just kind of real and on more of a personal note
I just I feel stupid for for having jumped on this story so quickly on the weekend that which goes against like what I normally
do feel like a lot of people from a lot of different sides and
Organizations feel stupid for jumping and reacting as quickly as they did
I know right now that there are a lot of people just kind of doubling down on their initial reaction
Ultimately that is where we are with the story right now
And it was just important to me to cover this like any other story that we would normally cover the last thing I want to
Talk about today is Mexico. The reason for that is two weeks ago
We covered the growing gas crisis in Mexico, which has now found itself in the news again after a massive incident the specific incident
we're talking about happened in Chloe Leap and I'll go but to kind of give you a brief recap leading up to now in an
Attempt to fight the growing theft of gasoline in Mexico
You had the President of Mexico Amlo announcing some changes to the gas distribution system
The thefts were reportedly costing Mexico over three billion dollars a year and the crimes included everything from organized cartels attacking and tapping into pipelines
white-collar crimes or refineries
themselves all the way to petty thefts from single individuals taking gasoline from pipeline and the proposed solutions were to close nearly all of the
pipeline station troops at the refineries and attempt to distribute
Gasoline with trucks and rail cars and as we discussed last time this led to a massive shortage of gasoline for the public in Mexico
especially in six of the most populous regions in central Mexico and so in an attempt to fix this gas shortage while still defending against
Theft Amlo announced that in addition to troops guarding
The refinery even more would be sent out to patrol and protect nearly
1600 kilometers of pipeline. He's also attempting to fix other inadequacies within the distribution system like the shortage of trucks announcing today that he's going
To try and tackle the problem with 571 trucks that would be purchased from the United States
according to Jesus Ramirez Cuevas the social media coordinator for the president president Lopez Obrador has instructed that
571 tankers be bought from the United States to guarantee the fuel supply
It's a matter of national security Mexican state can't be subjugated to any power economic or political nor tolerate the pressures of organized crime
However, while reopening some of the pipeline's has mitigated fuel shortages
It's also being blamed for some other unintended consequences north of Mexico City
You have a state of Idalgo which runs the Tula teks bun pipeline a pipeline that has been closed since late December
Because of constant attacks from organized groups specifically according to the CEO of Pemex
The pipeline was actually closed after being attacked ten times in December
but after a handful of troops were deployed to help guard the
Pipeline and repairs were made to the damage from the attacks
It was reopened last Wednesday and shortly afterwards, it was attacked four more times
Then on Friday a leak was discovered on the pipe as of right now it's unknown what actually caused the leak
some saying that the attacks on Wednesday led to it while others say that the repair work was inadequate and that the pressure from
restarting the pipeline actually burst through the shoddy repairs and while originally it was reported to be a small leak over the day it seemed
To have grown reportedly it was leaking for upwards of four hours and during that time around 800 people showed up for the free gasoline
and we know this because there is actually video online of people just walking right up to the leaking pipeline with barrels and buckets getting
What they can and then this is where details of what happened next get very muddled but based on official accounts from the administration
Here's what happened Pemex claims at a 4:50 p.m
They informed authorities of the leak after their systems detected a drop in pressure according to the president and his administration
25 soldiers were sent to the pipeline to tell people to get away from it
But they were largely ignored and then tragedy struck at around 6:30 p.m
One for an unknown reason the leak exploded a night vision video from military personnel shows the massive explosion, but also on that note
I'm not going to include that video in this video just because of the gruesome nature of it
You can see what appears to be kind of flames skittering across the field
But it's actually people on fire running from the blast initially
It was reported that just over 20 were killed and dozens were injured but now according to the health secretary over eighty
Nine have died and 51 remain
Hospitalized with some so badly injured and teetering on the edge of death that they've been transported to specialist facilities in Texas
So this disaster has left many Mexicans with many questions questions
Like why was the fuel allowed to flow after a leak was detected Pemex claims
The fuel was shut off
but there was still ten thousand gallons of pressurized gasoline in the pipe between the two Lowe refinery and the village which allowed the fuel
to flow despite being shut off you have people saying this doesn't make sense and the crews should have been sent sooner to repair the
Leak at the same time
you've people questioning why there is sympathy some claiming that the dead don't deserve sympathy because they were
Professional fuel thieves and many of those same people have been circulating a video of people confronting and attacking the soldiers who arrived to disperse?
the crowd but at the same time you people arguing that this view fails to account for the vast majority of the 800 people who
Showed up for fuel who were just everyday people
Looking for fuel in the middle of a massive shortage with one farmer being quoted by el
Universal is saying a lot of innocent people came here
Perhaps their car didn't have enough gasoline for tomorrow
And they said I'm just going to go for a few liters as far as Amlo is concerned on Sunday
He said the disaster had not weakened his resolve to fight fuel theft saying I won't take a single step backward
I can only offer people apologies if this action causes sacrifices harm or inconveniences and while Amlo
widely popular in Mexico, he's still not free of critics. Really what we're seeing here is with this latest disaster
It's given them another angle to attack
The president many of these critics have pointed out that the president's fuel policy was done too quickly without proper preparation
preparation. Additionally,
It has also had major
Economic impacts and is now considered a massive disaster too, by many. Also polls have shown that the fuel policy is widely
Divisive with about half of Mexicans saying economic impacts and fuel shortages are worth it in the long run
And so with this story I did want to pass the question off to you
You see one person or a specific group as being responsible or there is shared
responsibility here what are your thoughts around people saying they have no sympathy for those injured or who died in this they were stealing or in the
Wrong, so what happened happened or no? You're gonna probably see a mixture of desperate people taking desperate measures and all thoughts
I'd love to see from you here. And that's what I'm going to end. Today's show
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