What's more important is why he won the suit. CNN, portrayed the incident as being racially charged before it was discovered by additional footage that another group had provoked the confrontation by slinging racial slurs at Sandmann and the students he was with, as they were waiting for their bus at the March For Life event in D.C. last year. Footage then showed Phillips, who was in town for the Indigenous Peoples March, approaching the students amid the rising tension between the two groups.
In other words, CNN put out FAKE NEWS, as per usual, in an attempt to, well... orange man bad.