Nick Sandmann has identified himself as the youth standing close to Nathan Phillips, a 64-year-old Native American man, as two marches took place at the same time in Washington last week.
The Indigenous Peoples March in Washington on Friday coincided with the March for Life, which drew thousands of anti-abortion protesters, including a group from Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills.
“I am being called every name in the book, including a racist, and I will not stand for this mob-like character assassination of my family’s name,” wrote Mr Sandmann, who added that he and his parents have received death threats since video of Friday’s confrontation emerged.
Both Mr Sandmann and Mr Phillips say they were trying to defuse tensions that were rising among three groups on a day Washington hosted the marches.
But video of Mr Sandmann standing very close to Mr Phillips, staring and at times smiling at him as Mr Phillips sang and played a drum, gave many who watched it a different impression.
Other students appeared to be laughing at the drummer, and at least one could be seen on video doing a tomahawk chop.
The differing accounts emerged on Sunday as the nation picked apart footage from dozens of mobile phones that recorded the incident amid an increasingly divided political climate fuelled by a partial government shutdown over immigration policy.
Mr Sandmann said he…
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