I didn't realize its illegal to walk up to someone and play a drum in front of them.
It's highly annoying. I don't think anyone said Phillips committed a crime.
From the conservative narrated video i watched here's what i saw, with some bias noted:
Two protests were going on at the same time, Right for Life one that Sandmann's Kentucky school class went to. Indigenous People's March that Phillips was with.
Sandmann's class was meeting up at a spot for the buses to take them back, that spot was next to where some Black Israelites were at yelling things to everyone.
Sandmann's class did some "school cheers" to drown out the Black Israelites and the video wouldn't say what the cheers were, so that could be something.
Phillips allegedly walked to where the students were, banging his drum, for what he said was a way to deescalate the situation between the school kids and black israelites saying the school kids. Here is what Phillips said:
"They were in the process of attacking these four black individuals," Phillip said. "I was there and I was witnessing all of this ... As this kept on going on and escalating, it just got to a point where you do something or you walk away, you know? You see something that is wrong and you're faced with that choice of right or wrong. "
Phillips said some of the members of the Black Hebrew group were also acting up, "saying some harsh things" and that one member spit in the direction of the Catholic students. "So I put myself in between that, between a rock and hard place," he said.
But then, the crowd of mostly male students turned their anger towards Phillips.
"There was that moment when I realized I've put myself between beast and prey," Phillips said. "These young men were beastly and these old black individuals was their prey, and I stood in between them and so they needed their pounds of flesh and they were looking at me for that."
I don't know how that checks out with the video. It seems very exaggerated unless there is more footage of the Black Israelites being their "prey". He also said the students had some Build the Wall chants going on.