DOJ Tracking Possible Racial Motive in Brutal Mob Attack on White York College Students

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The September 12 assault began after a group of up to 30 youths gathered outside the students’ home following what authorities described as an illegal street takeover.

According to Fox 43, the students called 911 four times before the violence began.

After a street racer struck a parked car, the students asked the crowd to leave their property. A black female teenager then stepped onto the porch and threw the first punch. Others quickly piled on. Video shows members of the mob dragging the students by their hair and brutally beating them.

As the attack unfolded, one of the students placed a fifth call to police. Officers finally arrived, prompting the crowd to disperse.

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Despite the uncivilized nature of the incident, it took police a week to make the first arrests in this case.

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While police have not released an official racial breakdown of the attackers or the three juveniles charged, nor is the racial identity of every person in the mob clearly discernible from the footage, the video appears to show at least a predominantly black group assaulting the white female students.

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The racial identities of the attackers and victims do not, by themselves, prove a hate crime. But given the savagery of the assault, the apparent racial dynamic, and the troubling delay in making any arrests, the possibility of a racial motive deserves a thorough investigation. Had the races been reversed, the story would have dominated media coverage for days — or far longer.

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I’ll leave you with this disturbing anecdote from a Facebook post shared by Blue Lives Matter:

A black woman in York, Pennsylvania, said she was “personally offended” that officials called violent porch attackers “uncivilized”.

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At the meeting the woman said, “To me, that feels like you’re saying that the juveniles in this incident are uncivilized, and I am personally offended by that analogy.”

She asked what the college would do to check the behavior of the white students living off campus. Yep – she actually tried to blame the white kids for the violence of the black attackers. And the media gave her a platform.

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