backlash to this video of nathan philips and nick sandmann standing with their faces inches from each other, as crowds surround them shouting. reviewing all the video we have of this incident, we see the moment does not start here. sandmann and his dozens of classmates had finished attending an anti-abortion rally, when they converged with five hebrew israelites, a movement growing more militant. both that group and the group of students have accused the other of hurling insults. what is unclear in the video is who actually started the confrontation. today show colleague, savannah guthrie, sat down with nick sandmann, the student, to talk about the video, the moment, and the backlash. do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology? do you see your own fault in any
it was a confrontation that caused a fire storm across social media. involving different age groups and races outside the lincoln memorial last friday. we re learning more about it. was there a rush to judgment as to who was in the wrong? sarah side ner has the update. reporter: we re hearing from the chaperon of the catholic students who came face to face with native american elder. the chaperons are defending the actions of the students and putting the blame on this group of black men. hurling insults at the boys. in the middle of a native rally. where their dirty hat on. i can t believe they stayed and listened to the hatred that was being shouted at them. as a mother, it was horrible. horrible. our boys did nothing. no violence. they didn t attack the
group called the black hebrew israelites. they were hurling insults at them and then when you see all the video you realize thought kids were simply shouting school chants at the suggestion of one of the kids and chaperone and then the man with a drum walked in and actually got up in the young man s face. brian: so the media jumped to the conclusions what these young men were doing and what young kids were doing and what they represented. put everything on its head. the facts have come out. apologies have come cascading in. but it hasn t stopped the threats from coming at these high school kids who were there just for a supervised demonstration. jillian: nic sandman the guy you see there standing his ground trying to diffuse the situation. the video has gone viral of two of his friends from the high school grant and sam. and this is what they had to say about this incident. there have been many threats against our lives. against our parents.
doxxing. doxxing is when your personal information is published online. and they just mentioned, the school shooting threat that certainly probably went into the determination by the school board to cancel that particular school today. i said that, you know, the provocation no longer in doubt. because when you look at what happened. the initial story was the young people in the maga caps went over and got into the face of this native american who was protesting and banging on the drum. but then when you look at the video, he, the man with the drum nay than phillips approached them. the reason they were chanting, the school, just because 10 or 15 feet further to the east of them the black hebrew israelites focus group were hurling insults at the kids and so they were doing school cheers to offset that. and they got the okay from one of the chaperones and we have one of the chaperones with us. her son was there at 7:20.
outrage. native american phillips, a native american veteran, beating a drum, facing students from kentucky, wearing make america great again gear. i was scared. reporter: the tribal elder said he stepped in to diffuse a confrontation. the group seen in a new video, now deleted from facebook, hurling insults at the teens. this is about your future. i intervened. things just escalated from there. reporter: the member of the israelites who filmed the encounter tells nbc news it starts when the students started mocking them. soon after, video of the students and phillips went viral. the kentucky catholic school and diocese some of the students belonged to saying in a statement, they condemn the actions of the students. we extend our apologies to mr. philli phillips. we ll take action, up to and