There's an argument to be made that the "kid" in question did what he did completely knowingly. Nobody would knowingly wear a MAGA hat into a space like that unless they knew they wanted to cause trouble
Was he forced to wear the hat to the event?
Was there someone behind him at gunpoint forcing him to wear the hat?
The Covington case was naked woke hysteria, there is no way around it. Particularly because even after the details came out, people were still doubling down and making excuses for everyone else there.
The hat is the official merch of your current sitting president. The way it's treated as an overt symbol of hate is insane, and only makes stunts like "it's ok to be white" all the more poignant. Clearly it's not ok in the eyes of some, and vice versa, having colored skin can excuse harassment and racism.
Why? Hatred (as in the speech the cameraman was filming) is the overt policy of the President.
The emperor isn't naked, he just has a really bad hat - but we have to point out what we see, no matter how many people are wanting to intimidate us into not seeing it.
A good summary of this faux concern: https://www.salon.com/2019/01/22/defenders-of-the-maga-hat-y...
Here's the 1.5 hour recording of the event so you don't have to sit through some selectively edited hack job:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSkpPaiUF8s
Basically: the kid was entirely blameless, preyed upon by a racist native activist specifically because he was wearing a MAGA hat.