Скачать или смотреть Deadspin quietly tweaks viral story on young Chiefs fan’s ‘blackface’, parents threaten legal action

Deadspin finally updated the viral story that accused a young Kansas City Chiefs fan of wearing “blackface” after the youngster’s parents threatened legal action against the reporter and the sports outlet.

At some point on Thursday, the website quietly amended Carron J. Phillips’ Nov. 27 takedown of native headdresses and insensitive face paint at NFL games with an editor’s note saying the publication “regret[s] any suggestion that we were attacking” 9-year-old Holden Armenta.

The editors also removed the original header photo that showed Holden in profile wearing a traditional Native American headdress and his face painted in black and red, two of the Chiefs’ four team colors, at the Nov. 26 game — and revised the headline so that it no longer called out the fan specifically.

The article is now running with a photo of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

“Three years ago, the Chiefs banned fans from wearing headdresses in Arrowhead Stadium, as well as face painting that ‘appropriates American Indian cultures and traditions.’ The story’s intended focus was the NFL and its failure to extend those rules to the entire league,” the editor’s note lamented.

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