Could the attack simply have been because they were in a bad area and stood out, and not be rooted in people group (race)? (could be naive, or could be paranoid, depends on your point of view).
This neighborhood is mixed and upscale. Homes are around $700K to $2mil. I was out trick-or-treating with my little kids not too far from this, though we got back by 8:30 and this attack happened around 9:30.
I would SO like to think this were not race related, but even the police have said it was wholly unprovoked by these girls, and many heard the racial taunts by these black youths as they started to pelt the girls with objects.
It wasn't a bad area. The girls lived a few blocks away. The attackers were from a completely different neighborhood.
If you'd read about this case before opening your mouth and proving you're a dumbass, maybe you wouldn't come off like a dumbass. It was a hate crime carried out by some 30 black kids against three white girls who were minding their own business and trying to avoid these lower than dog$hit hyenas. The girls were brutally set upon and called all manner of racial epithets about being white. These pukes were out just looking for somebody to victimize so they went on over to a wealthy white neighborhood known for having good Halloween spirit to pick their victims. How you can search for excuses or some way to blame the victims by suggesting they shouldn't have been there is disgusting and beyond comprehension.