The parents of 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan Holden Armenta, targeted unfairly by racist Deadspin journalist Carron Phillips, are threatening legal action against both the outlet and the reporter.
As Breaking Digest previously reported, Carron Phillips smeared an innocent child who attended the Kansas City vs. Las Vegas game by sharing a misleading photo showing only one side of the child’s face.
“It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once. But on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate black people and the native americans at the same time,” Phillips wrote falsely accusing the child of wearing “blackface.”
This is the Deadspin reporter, Carron Phillips, who tried to shame a little white boy for having fun at a football game. Turns out he was the racist one after all. pic.twitter.com/Sv6jp7C8mJ
— TMK (@TheMagaKing) November 29, 2023
It was later revealed that Holden Armenta is Native American, and his heritage has been confirmed, as he belongs to the Chumash tribe with his grandfather is on the Tribe board in Santa Ynez.
Phillips deleted his tweets targeting Holden, but the family is demanding both a retraction and an apology.
Following over a week of backlash, including the revelation that Holden and his family are Native American, Shannon and Raul, the boy’s parents, are considering a potential lawsuit against Deadspin, as reported by the New York Post.
In a letter from their attorneys, the couple has demanded a retraction of the article and an apology from the outlet.
According to the letter obtained by NewsNation, the Armenta family hired Clare Locke LLP to pursue legal action against Deadspin, Carron Phillips, G/O Media and Great Hill Partners.
“These articles, posts on X and photos about Holden and his parents must be retracted immediately,” the letter from Clare Locke read.
“It is not enough to quietly remove a tweet from X or disable the article from Deadspin’s website. You must publish your retractions and issue an apology to my clients with the same prominence and fanfare with which you defamed them,” the attorney wrote.
Following the incident, others have come out in support of Holden by painting their faces black and red.
It also serves as a statement to Phillips for smearing an innocent child as a racist by purposely misinterpreting and misrepresenting his game-day face paint as “blackface.”
On Thursday, Dan Bongino opened his program with his face painted black and red in both support of Holden and as a message to cancel culture-loving leftists.
“So folks, sometimes you just got to give the double-barreled middle finger and tell cancel culture portions of liberal leftist socialist communist America,” Bongino said as he flipped off the camera.
“You can take cancel culture in a nice ball. You can roll it up just like this big or small, I don’t really care. You can take it and you can stick it right up your ass!”
Watch:
Dan Bongino Unleashes At ‘Cancel Culture’ After Chiefs Fan Gets Targeted: ‘Stick It Right Up Your A**!’ pic.twitter.com/EnQOTboVec
— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) December 1, 2023
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Watch:
Trump Latinos drop a new track wearing red and black face paint. pic.twitter.com/Rpa5paNEYi
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 2, 2023
BREAKING REPORT: Trump Latinos climb to #68 on the charts with new smash hit, “November 5th.” pic.twitter.com/p8dwTzh3WI
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) December 4, 2023
