Eric Zorn: Yes, there's blame to go around — chaperones, where were you? — but those Covington school kids are no heroes
Upon further review, my initial ruling stands: Those boys from Covington Catholic High School were acting like jerks.
You've seen the videos by now of the unsettling confrontation Friday between a smirking, MAGA-hatted teen staring down a weathered, drum-beating Native American man near the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The tribal elder is singing. The boy's classmates are standing nearby laughing, mocking and taunting.
The initial condemnation of
