Covington High School teens defend students, detail 'horrible threats' made against them
Seniors Sam Schroder and Grant Hillmann speak out on 'Fox & Friends' on the firestorm over the Capitol Hill incident.
Students at the Kentucky high school closed yesterday amid threats stemming from a viral video recorded during last week’s March for Life rally say they're ready Wednesday to “get back together as a community.”
Covington Catholic High School reopened Wednesday with a police presence, but Sam Schroder, a student who was at the rally in Washington, D.C. told "Fox & Friends" that “everybody feels safe."
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“I think that closing the school down yesterday was a good move to play it safe but I think today everybody – I think they are ready to go back, get back together as a community,” he said.
The school has come under fire after a video was posted on Twitter over the weekend that gave some commenters an inaccurate impression that the teens were harassing a Native American man, Nathan Phillips, following the pro-life demonstration. Subsequent video footage then released painted a different picture – yet the students have been met with a barrage of criticism and threats anyway.
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“The threats, they have been horrible,” Grant Hillman, a Covington High School senior, who did not attend the rally, told "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday. “I have never heard such cruel things wished upon another human being, ranging from getting locked inside a building and burned alive to sexually assaulted by the clergy members – it’s just awful.
He added: “It’s really sad to see [people] with such a huge platform who [have] the ability to spread positivity to use it in such a negative manner to bully children."
Some families of students from the school have been reported to be considering legal action in the wake of the criticism and threats.
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Schroder said he wasn’t sure how far along those developments are but they “definitely could be a good thing."
“I know how our school raises these kids, I know that no one from our school would be disrespectful,” he said.
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