by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper:

The recent internet witch hunt shows us that humanity is heading into dangerous territory.

This week, we explained how the mainstream media twisted the story about the “MAGA Kids” from Covington Catholic high school and their “confrontation” with Native Elder Nathan Phillips in D.C. last Friday.

A short video clip and an image of an alleged confrontation between the students and a small group of Native Americans spread like wildfire over the weekend, resulting in widespread condemnation of the boys on social media.

The story is still up front in the news and on social media, and even though all evidence presented so far supports the kids’ side of the story, many are still trying to find reasons to vilify the boys.

Based on what I have observed all over social media over the last three days, there are two things that Nick Sandmann, the boy who is at the center of the story, is “guilty” of:  smiling and wearing a MAGA hat.

To many, those two things are enough to justify attempts to dig up any bit of dirt on Sandmann, his school, and his peers. The effort some are putting into making these teenagers the worst people on the planet ever is quite troubling.

Some people who believed the initial story and called for actions against the boys have since apologized and admitted they were wrong for jumping the gun.

Here’s how ugly it got on social media.

Apologies or not, some of these “adults” said truly evil things about those kids.

Allow me to show you just how ugly things got on Twitter.

This Tweet was posted by Jack Morrissey, a film producer whose credits include Beauty and the Beast and movies from the Twilight franchise:

Morrissey later Tweeted an apology that read:

‘Yesterday I tweeted an image based on Fargo that was meant to be satirical – as always – but I see now that it was in bad taste.

‘I offended many people – my sincerest apologies.

‘I would never sincerely suggest violence against others, especially kids.

‘Lesson learned.’

Kathy Griffin – whose reputation still hasn’t recovered from her fake-beheaded-Donald-Trump “art” fiasco – also posted a few shocking Tweets about the Covington kids:

As if calling for the teenagers’ names to be publicly released wasn’t enough, Griffin doubled down with this Tweet:

Oh boy. Griffin must not know anything about basketball, or fact-checking: those hand signs are three-point celebration symbols. Other Twitter users snapped back at Griffin over the ridiculous Tweet, sharing photos and images of professional basketball players making the same hand signs. Griffin deleted her Tweet, but the internet is forever: Twitchy captured screenshots of her Tweet and some of the responses.

Wheeler Walker Jr. (the alter-ego of comedian Ben Hoffman) asked his fans to assault Sandmann:

Walker’s Twitter account no longer exists (some say he deleted it, some say Twitter suspended him), but you can see the archived Tweet here.

Comedian Sarah Beattie offered up something too:

Classy.

The internet witch hunt was in full swing.

There are many, many more similar Tweets from people calling for violence against Sandmann and his classmates, but including them all here would take up way too much space, and honestly, who wants to see more hate against a bunch of kids?

The hashtag #VerifiedBullies is being used on Twitter to track and identify all of the people who have called for doxxing, assaulting, and otherwise bullying the Covington kids. Oh, and the wrong kid was doxxed – a boy named Michael Hodge was incorrectly identified as the boy in the “face-off” with Phillips and he and his family were harassed.

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