Family of Kansas City Chiefs Fan Sues Deadspin Over Blackface Story
- The parents of a 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan are suing sports blog Deadspin for spreading "incendiary" lies about their son's face paint and Native American headdress.
- The lawsuit alleges that Deadspin portrayed the Armenta family as anti-Black and anti-Native American bigots and failed to mitigate damage from the backlash.
- The article's main feature image selectively showed only one half of the boy's face painted black, leading to accusations of smearing the 9-year-old boy's name.
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Young Kansas City Chiefs fan accused of wearing blackface sues sports blog
9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan accused of blackface by Deadpin, finds the claims ‘scary’. His family has filed a lawsuit against the left-wing sports blog.
Young KC Chiefs Fan's Parents Sue Deadspin For Defamation
The parents of a 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan who's Native American have hit sports news publication Deadspin with a defamation lawsuit in Delaware state court accusing it of using a photo of their son, wearing a feather headdress and red and black face paint at a game, out of context in order to label the family "bigots" who hate both Black and Native American people.
Young Chiefs Fan’s Family Sues Deadspin Over Blackface Story
A family is taking legal action against Deadspin after one of the sports media outlet’s writers accused their 9-year-old son of racism for wearing a headdress and painting his face red and black in support of the team last year. Raul and Shannon Armenta filed a defamation suit in Delaware on Tuesday over Carron Phillips’ November story, in which the Deadspin reporter said their son had “found a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at
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