The white kid might have been a rapper wanna be. Baggy shorts, hoody, baseball cap on sideways. “Hey bro - its cool, I’m down wit dat.”
If it was me, I’d take a long time to heal up. Postpone the point where my old man would take the belt to me for being out so late!
Seattle is nowhere near as nice as the travelogues say.
But if you want to believe them, it's all on your head. You've been duly warned by a local.