That was my thought, too. For one thing, in a place like Richmond, they wouldn't have dared to do it unless they were part of a gang and knew that this girl was not under the protection of a rival gang or somebody's sister or something else like that.
My son works for the phone company and when he had to go to Richmond occasionally, they always told the phone guys to see nothing and hear nothing, otherwise their lives were at risk. That is, the pile of crack on the kitchen table, the meth lab in the bathroom, etc...
I got the impression that almost nobody who lives there is very nice. Wasn't Richmond the place where that pervert was holding the girl he had kidnapped 20 years ago?
I find the world’s excuse of gangs just as sad as the excuse of those bystanders.
Our society needs to have a “grand divorce”, along state lines.
A “free state”, one with traditional Christian values, should enforce the law to the hilt, driving out people like this to “more favorable” states. Let THEM enjoy their “multicultural experience” until they get tired of it or decline into absolute depravity.
That was Antioch, 20 miles east. Sort of the white trash version of Richmond, although the Antioch/Pittsburg/Bay Point area attracted a lot of lower middle class blacks in the 1990's and 2000's who were trying to get themselves and their kids away from the Oakland/Richmond thug life. Guess what? The kids brought it to the suburbs with them.