They’re very carefully tiptoeing around identifying these “teens,” which in the United States almost always means a minority. However, I had to read through to the comments to discover that they’re white. But still, the attack is being described as racism. Poles are white. English are white. It’s not racism. Anti-immigrant, probably. Or, it could have been a group of drunk young men looking for a fight and he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, no other motive than that.
Polish is not Anglo. We have lost this distinction in the USA over the past 50 years as the “WASP” culture has faded from being the dominant one. It’s still prominent in UK and Europe from centuries of different groups fighting, reconciling, dominating and interacting with one another.
French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, for example, are not all generically “white”. Anglo, Caucasian and white are used inter-changably in the US, which is culturally, genetically and historically incorrect.
In Europe they are aware of the distinctions between Latin, Slavic, Magyar, Irish, Russian, Welsh, English, etc. These are anthropologically distinct races and cultures (not necessarily nationalities) not lumped together as “white.”
In the melting-pot USA we have lost some of that awareness, but sometimes you can see it in old movies, TV shows and books. The distinctions themselves are not racism, obviously. Read popular books written in the 18th and 19th centuries and you will realize the Americanized dominant world view has not been around forever.
This was not about wrong place, wrong time -- unless you consider England post-Brexit referendum as wrong-place-time