Could you guys maybe stop derailing the thread now?
The issue here is the accuracy of the thread title, which is not supported by various videos. It is a hoped-for narrative by the OP that falls short.
A correction of the Thread Title was called for here, to accurately reflect the situation. Can moderators not do that?
Maybe leave the thread title alone; the thread title may well be the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline of January 2019.
As a teacher at an all-male Catholic high school, several of my students were at the march as well. My initial reaction Saturday when my left-of-center and/or Native American FB friends started posting video about the incident was that the Catholic schoolboys were behaving deplorably. Only Sunday morning, when the first of many videos countering Saturday's narrative appeared in my FB feed (posted, of course, by conservative friends), did I begin to see a different view and to start to believe that, despite all my intellect and skepticism, I had been "had".
Two things strike me: (1) the proliferation of apologies and/or "clarifying" articles by many, including the New York Times; and (2) the articulate, reasoned, measured statement by one of the Catholic schoolboys. (To say nothing of the initial vitriol extended to the boys, which I think speaks for itself).
