I did appreciate the fact that one or more of the pursuing firefighters was black. Nice to see.
When I was in the USN back in the Seventies, I was jumped by four black guys and beaten, and when I told this to the petty officer who was my supervisor, he asked if I wanted him to get up a team of guys to hunt them down.
He was black. And that made a difference to me. For months after, I scanned the face of nearly every black person I encountered to see if I could recognize any of the assailants, but it was night when it happened, and I was under stress so trying to recognize the faces at the time wasn’t a high priority.
But I think that black petty officer offering to hunt them down contributed to my ability to keep that negative situation from becoming a chronic race-based incident...although for those black guys who ganged up on me, it clearly was a racist thing.
It reminds me of the race riot aboard the USS Kitty Hawk in October, 1972.