Washington Post Settles Lawsuit With Covington Catholic Student Nicholas Sandmann

The Washington Post settled a defamation lawsuit Friday with former Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann, who filed a suit last year over the paper's inaccurate coverage of his confrontation with Native American activists.

"On 2/19/19, I filed [a] $250M defamation lawsuit against Washington Post," Sandmann tweeted. "Today, I turned 18 & WaPo settled my lawsuit. Thanks to [my lawyers] for their advocacy. Thanks to my family & millions of you who have stood your ground supporting me. I still have more to do."

Then-16-year-old Sandmann attended the March for Life in Washington, D.C., in January 2019 and was confronted, along with other students, by a group of Native American activists led by Nathan Phillips. Media coverage at the time portrayed Sandmann and the students as aggressors, but a longer video of the incident later revealed that Phillips had approached the Covington students.