Molly McPhersonCrisis and Reputation Strategist | Creator of Mollyfi | Host of The PR Breakdown

You can't be victim and hero #substack #shorts

25 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Molly McPherson critiques Charles “Chuck” Henderson’s apology video, suggesting it was influenced by internal observers who had seen prior chats about the incident. She notes that Henderson apologized specifically to the group dubbed the “New Orleans Five,” a label that emerged from their own online discussions. McPherson argues that the ADA and law‑enforcement response framed the situation by removing the “New Orleans Five,” casting them as the problem while positioning the ADA as the victim. She concludes that a narrative cannot simultaneously cast the same party as both victim and hero, asserting that such a dual role is logically untenable.

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His name's Charles Chuck Henderson, did a video and essentially, oh, I don't know, um, basically laid out a lot of things that we talked about in our lives. So what Molly suspects based on some of the views on there and the emails that were on there, uh, is that, that someone within the building watched it. And even watched the chat and heard from you all as well and said, could we try this? Like, I think this is what the problem is. And he— in his apology, that's what he did. He apologized to the New Orleans Five, as everyone mobilizing started calling them, which is exactly what we all said on our chat. That's what he needed to do. This act that the ADA surrounded them, law enforcement, removed them and then made them the problem and made the ADA the victim. You can't do that. You cannot be the victim and the hero in the same story. You can't do that. It doesn't work.