Report: Black Hebrew Israelites confronting Covington Catholic students a 'hate group'
Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 6:45 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2019 | Updated 7:16 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2019
In a statement released Sunday to the media, Covington Catholic High School junior Nick Sandmann, who was shown over the weekend standing face-to-face with an indigenous man Friday in Washington, D.C., said the standoff took place after four African-American protesters said "hateful things" to Sandmann and a group of his classmates.
"They called us 'racists,' 'bigots,' 'white crackers,' 'bleep' and 'incest kids.' They also taunted an African-American student from my school by telling him that we would 'harvest his organs.' I have no idea what that insult means, but it was startling to hear," Sandmann wrote.
The remark about harvesting organs may reference Jordan Peele's horror-satire "Get Out," a 2017 movie in which the black boyfriend of a white girl discovers her family is harvesting the organs of blacks.
The four African-American protesters near the Lincoln Memorial have been identified as members of the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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