Atually, the OP article isn't wrong. I doesn't tell the full story of how things transpired, but it's not wrong in what it reported.
Mr. Phillips did walk in front of the crowd of students from Covington Cathonlic HS, but he positioned himself between the students and the five Black men who said they were part of an organization who call themselves the Black Hebrew Israelites. Two of the men filmed the events that were taking place around them while also record the three speakers of their group. This small band of men stood a few feet away from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial espousing their version of Biblical scripture and cultural/human history. Unfortunately, their words were also at times hateful, aggressive, threatening, demeaning and antagonistic. Occasionally, they would interact with passers-by and exchange in dialog, but they mostly confronted people who they believed weren't true "followers of God and Christ".
About 1 hour into filming, a crowd of white people - mostly students from Covington Catholic HS - began to gather. This was most certainly due to the aggressive and demeaning tone the five black men took towards the students, many of whom were wearing MAGA hats. The crowd soon surrounded the five black men but remained non-threatening (physically). Heated words were exchanged. That's when Mr. Phillips approached the students (around the 1:08-12 mark) and positioned himself along with a few of his followers between the students and the black men. Except for a brief verbal exchange between one of the Native American Indians who accompanied Mr. Phillips and one student, no one confronted anyone else. The students did begin to chant, but it was a common chant one would commonly hear at any high school or college sporting event. We all know the chant - it sounds like an Indian war cry.
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article from the Courier-Journal links to two videos that show exactly what happened. The long version of the video (1:46:00) is mainly from the perspective of the five Black Hebrew Israelite men, whereas, the shorter video (9:40) shows what transpired between Mr. Phillips, Mr. Sandmann and the Covington Catholic HS students. Mr. Phillips says he approached the students because he believed they were becoming agitated with the black men and he didn't want to see things spawn out of control Mr. Sandmann says he stood there calmly even discouraging one of his school mates from confronting Mr. Phillips. Both claim they prayed for peace in hopes that the situation didn't spiral out of control. Why can't we accept that both men acted in good faith?
Tres, I'm going to go re-quote my earlier post to you that I've 
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