The Armenta family sued the sports blog Deadspin after it falsely accused their 9-year-old son of wearing “blackface' at a Kansas City Chiefs game last year.
A Delaware judge ruled Monday that the Armenta family’s lawsuit against Deadspin for accusing their son of wearing 'blackface' at a Chiefs game last year can proceed. In 2023, Deadspin writer Carron Phillips wrote an article using an image of nine-year-old Holden Armenta sporting black and red Kansas City Chiefs face paint at a game, showing only the black half of his face.
Deadspin published an image of a child displaying his passionate fandom as a backdrop for its critique of the NFL’s diversity efforts and, in its description of the child, crossed the fine line protecting its speech from defamation claims,' the judge wrote.
The headline was also changed from 'The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress' to 'The NFL Must Ban Native Headdress And Culturally Insensitive Face Paint in the Stands.' Phillips initially doubled down on his accusations in a since-deleted X post.
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