Read the story.
I have to wonder what possibly motivates anyone to try and justify this action? Creepy Clowns are asking to get beat or worse. Told to fall back and continue to advance is an aggressive act.
THe story has a lot of “facts” that are not in the video, and the “facts” are all based on what the people in the car said. And they had every reason to say that the clown was harassing them and was told to go away and didn’t. But you don’t see that on the video.
This particular newspaper does a lot of stories that are entirely based on interviews with one side of a story, without any real fact checking.
For example — were the police called? Did they arrest the clown? Did the clown call the police to report the attack? Did he end up in the hospital?
The article instead quotes Obama saying we should take this seriously — which is a joke, because if you count how many people dress up as clowns, and how many of them have actually commited a crime, you’ll find that the chances of a person dressed as a clown attacking you is LESS than the chance of a black male between 18-24 attackign you — and I can guarantee you Obama isn’t saying we should take seriously “black male sightings’, nor would he allow a car of white people to yell at a black man to “move back”, and then to beat him if he didn’t.