You have to watch the video to get the truth. Anything I post would just be a summary in my point of view.
For starters, the confrontation is part of a much larger confrontation that involved a 3rd party taunting the kids to begin with. The kids were minding their own business when this 3rd party starts taunting them.
Secondly, the kids were not the torch-waving, white hood wearing racists that instigated the confrontation that social media and the short video clip would like you to believe. Are they completely innocent and without fault? Absolutely not. But the viral reaction that the kids lives should be destroyed and the the threats to the Catholic school they attend is way out of line. I will grant that the kids should have reacted differently and maybe walked away, but, hey, they're teenagers and teenagers do stupid stuff. They act like ****** bags sometimes. They should be punished for it. But lives destroyed? I really blame more the chaperones who should have been there to diffuse the situation. Where were the adults here?
Speaking of . . .
Thirdly, the Native American seemed to approach them. Maybe he saw the MAGA hats and wanted to confront them. Maybe he was stepping in to diffuse the confrontation between the kids and the 3rd party. I don't know. But to believe that the kids confronted the gentleman are totally inaccurate. And the Native American did claim that the kids surrounded him and began it all. The kids never budged from their spot on the steps. The NA walked right up to them and started banging the drum in their face. How would anyone react in this situation? The NA made zero effort to walk away as well. I think he got the reaction and the viral clip he wanted to get, so not exactly innocent on his part either.
Plenty of blame to go around on both sides.
But because the kids were wearing MAGA hats, a much bigger deal was made of it and the kids were quickly painted as racists. When that may not be necessarily true. Throw in the fact that it was a predominantly white group and Catholic on top of that, liberals couldn't contain themselves. There is a much bigger picture here and more truth to the whole story.
This video pretty much sums up my feelings
(VIDEO CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND NOT SAFE FOR KIDS)