A mother who chaperoned a group of Kentucky high school students now facing criticism after an edited video from the March for Life rally went viral told Fox News she believes they were targeted “for what they stood for.”Jill Hamlin’s comments on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday came just as Covington High School announced it would be closed Tuesday for safety precautions. She said boys from the school were attending the rally, as they do each year, when another group – the so-called Black Hebrew Israelites – started shouting abuse at the students for wearing “Make America Great Again” hats. Subsequent video footage then came out revealing the students were being accosted and yelled at before Phillips and other Native American activists approached them. “We were there for the March for Life – it’s an annual trip that the Covington Catholic High School goes to and we meet every year at the Lincoln Memorial at the end of the day to catch our buses,” Hamlin said. "These young men were beastly and these old black individuals was their prey," Phillips said.

Source: Fox News January 22, 2019 15:00 UTC