They were pleasant and spoke with decent grammar and had pretty good vocabularies, so not ghetto kids. One fateful day, the white kids were not with the three blacks. The captain of the team stopped to collect a drug debt from a twenty-something black man. Popular media to the contrary notwithstanding, most mafiosi could maintain an appearance of being cultured, sophisticated, and civilized.
And then beat someone to death with a baseball bat ...
And donate large sums of money to their local Catholic church as well.