Taitano said the whole incident started when the teens and four young African-Americans, who'd been preaching about the Bible nearby, started yelling and calling each other names.
It got pretty intense, Taitano said, so Nathan Phillips, an elder with the Omaha tribe, started playing his drum and chanting what she was told was a healing prayer, to help defuse the situation.
Phillips walked through the crowd, and Taitano said things were starting to calm down until he got to the grinning boy seen in the video.
"This one kid just refused to move and he just got in Nathan's face," she said.
Other boys circled around, she said. "They just surrounded him and they were mocking him and mocking the chant. We really didn't know what was going to happen there."
Phillips is a Vietnam veteran who says he served between 1972 and 1976. He is a former director of the Native Youth Alliance and holds an annual ceremony honoring Native American veterans in Arlington National Cemetery.

"I was scared, I was worried for my young friends. I don't want to cause harm to anyone," Philips told CNN's Sara Sidner. "I don't like the word 'hate.' I don't like even saying it, but it was hate unbridled. It was like a storm."
The crowd kept growing as Phillips and the boy stood face to face, but Phillips kept on chanting and playing his drum.
"What the young man was doing was blocking my escape. I wanted to leave. I was thinking, 'How do I get myself out of this? I want to get away from it,'" Phillips said.
Taitano said the standoff continued until a chaperone came and led the teens away for a photograph.
Some of the boys could be seen wearing hoodies and jackets with the name of Covington Catholic High School, an all-boys' school in Northern Kentucky.
The school's website said a group of students had planned to attend Friday's March for Life rally in Washington.
The school is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, and in a statement given to CNN affiliate WLWT, spokeswoman Laura Keener said the diocese would investigate the incident and take appropriate action.
"We condemn the actions of the Covington Catholic High School students towards Nathan Phillips specifically, and Native Americans in general, Jan. 18, after the March for Life, in Washington, D.C. We extend our deepest apologies to Mr. Phillips. This behavior is opposed to the Church's teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person.
"The matter is being investigated and we will take appropriate action, up to and including expulsion. We know this incident also has tainted the entire witness of the March for Life and express our most sincere apologies to all those who attended the March and all those who support the pro-life movement."
CNN has reached out to the school and diocese for comment.
Taitano, who is from Guam, said she was raised to treat her elders with respect so it hurt to see them treat Phillips so badly.
Phillips also appeared upset in a video Taitano posted after the confrontation. He wiped away tears as he talked about the chants of "build that wall."

"I wish I could see that energy of the young mass of young men to, you know, put that energy into, you know, making this country really, really great by helping those who are hungry, you know," Philips said.
CNN's Sara Sidner, Amanda Watts and Deanna Hackney contributed to this report.

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I think the drummer NA guy walked up on the teenager and 'got in his face'

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I think DUPE

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Media manufactured hype over nothing. “Confront” is a stretch for what happened.

The kid’s just standing there. Who on earth would get riled up over this video if the media wasn’t telling you to get riled up over it?

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I watched it again.  It still looks to me like the NA drummer is walking thorough the crowd and walks up to the teenager and stops right in front of him.  He could have turned either way like he had been doing in the crowd earlier but chose to stop walking and stand there beating his drum in front of the kid.  I just don't see anything that's a big deal like the headline reads.  Trying to make the kid out to be confrontational.

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I watched it again.  It still looks to me like the NA drummer is walking thorough the crowd and walks up to the teenager and stops right in front of him.  He could have turned either way like he had been doing in the crowd earlier but chose to stop walking and stand there beating his drum in front of the kid.  I just don't see anything that's a big deal like the headline reads.  Trying to make the kid out to be confrontational.

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Saw a video of it earlier. The kid blocking the old man was a smug little shit desperately in need of having his ass beaten, and those around him weren’t any better. He had a very, very punchable face.

I sincerely hope they feel the sting of some nasty consequences

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This is why we can't have anything nice..video at link

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/19/us/teens-mock-native-elder-trnd/index.html

Granted, kids are largely dipshits at that age, but it's unlikely I or the kids I hung out with at that age would have don't crap like that...and Im pretty sure this isn't how you Make America Great Again

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Some kids really need tho have their ass beat.

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He attends a private Catholic school in Kentucky and this was during a school trip. They're already talking about expelling him because it reflects so poorly on their school.

Wish people here could be a hair more objective instead of seeing the MAGA and instantly siding with the dipshit regardless of evidence.

Every other thread here is people bitching about cocky, entitled, smug millennials yet here you have a shining example of this very thing yet people instantly defend him because of his hat.

If he wasn't wearing the hat the thread would be filled with people talking about "knocking that smug condescending face into the next century."

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No one would ever think to wear a MAGA hat and stir some shit up to make us look bad, would they.

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Kid looks like Joey Logano.  Would have been a good punch just for that.

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@Regulatori
You've been suckered, watch the video:

More Media Lies

There was no #MAGA mob hounding a Native American
Mult Native Americans instigated an incident walking into a peaceful group of kids & taunting one chanting & drumming inches fm his face

No one said "Build the Wall"
& if anything
That kid deserves a peace medal pic.twitter.com/lPbPtQtTh7

— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) January 20, 2019

https://twitter.com/Uncle_Jimbo/status/1086796139817504768

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Saw a video of it earlier. The kid blocking the old man was a smug little shit desperately in need of having his ass beaten, and those around him weren’t any better. He had a very, very punchable face.

I sincerely hope they feel the sting of some nasty consequences

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Some kids really need to have their ass beat.

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This happened in my state, The school pulled down their FB page. Shits gone down over this, the Archdiocese has apparently started an investigation as well.

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CNN way overstated what happened there. Color me shocked.

That being said: The students were disrespectful and I hope some kind nun will beat the shit out their knuckles with a ruler when they get back to school.

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The teens weren’t trying to intimidate the guy or anything. They didnt surround and block him in. He was already in the middle of them walking around while  beating  his drum and chanting. They were going along with the beat, although maybe not taking it serious.  They didn’t appear to be threatening towards the guy......

When I read CNNs story and saw the photo I thought to myself.... what little dip shits.
But after watching the video it’s not the picture that CNN painted.