New video casts different light on teens’ encounter with Native American elder Nathan Phillips

Initial footage appeared to show students, some wearing pro-Trump Maga hats, from a Kentucky high school taunting Nathan Phillips, an Omaha tribe elder

A fuller video would seem to assign more blame on a small group of Black Hebrew Israelites who first taunted the teens

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One of the students in a Maga cap, who was later identified as Nick Sandmann, appears to be standing face-to-face with Nathan Phillips, an Omaha tribe elder. Photo: Reuters

Published: 12:28pm, 22 Jan 2019Updated: 8:50pm, 22 Jan 2019

Longer video footage of a confrontation between a Native American activist and Kentucky high school students at a protest has surfaced, providing fresh insight into the controversial encounter and offering a broader view of deepening divisions in America.

Initial footage circulated online appeared to show students from the private, all-male Covington Catholic High School taunting Native American demonstrators, and prompted extensive condemnation.

The students have denied wrongdoing and their supporters urged against rushing to judgment.

In this initial short footage, the boys – some of them wearing pro-Trump “Make America Great Again” apparel – appear to surround a group of Indigenous Peoples March participants on Friday, near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.

The students were in the city for the anti-abortion March for Life, which took place the same day.

One of the students in a Maga cap, who was later identified as Nick Sandmann, appears to be standing face-to-face with Nathan Phillips, an Omaha tribe elder.