He should have profiled. Not doing so in some situations is insane. Middle class blacks avoid the ghetto as well. I hope he recovers.
Yes, if you see a group of blacks it is best to avoid them. Sad, but true.
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Sadly, most whites have been so trained since birth (in school, by the media, and in society in general) that "we're all the same" and to think otherwise is "racist", that a fair number of whites have no recognition that a large pack of urban black people does pose a greater threat to them than a pack of any other people.
While we often laugh at the insanity of political correctness, political correctness can and often does cause deaths of people who have been trained out of logical yet unpolitically correct thoughts.
Damn straight, he should have profiled. It is a legitimate defense mechanism. I don’t care if I insult someone by making sure I don’t end up dead or with brain damage.
Last year, I came upon almost this exact scenario. Big group fighting in the street. My first reaction was to back off, hide in the shadows and retreat. Once I was in a secure location, I called the cops and the mob ran off when the cops started coming.
First rule of the street, never intervene in someone else’s fight. The one thing I knew for sure was that as much as the two groups were brawling, they would have joined forces long enough to beat the crap out of this middle aged white boy.