I mentally pictured the other riders as being white, a racist and privileged mistake on my part. You’re right. The other riders were probably also black. Too bad she wasn’t black and the attackers white; then there’d be massive outcry along with a real effort to find the perps.
And a rousing condemnation of those that stood by and did nothing.
I’ve actually seen educated blacks say whites going into black areas “had it coming” when they are robbed, raped, or killed.
Imagine a white person suggesting that about blacks visiting the ‘white area’ of town.