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The video evidence subsequently showed that: the Catholic youngsters had not made any of the offensive remarks originally attributed to them; Phillips, who never actually served in Vietnam, had walked purposefully into the middle of the group of boys and stared down one of them while banging a drum and chanting just a few inches from the boy’s face; and the nearby black men were in fact members of a racist, anti-Semitic cult known as the Black Hebrew Israelites, and they had been hurling racial and homophobic epithets at the boys. https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/black-hebrew-israelites