Initially I was ready to say, "The people who pulled the guns were wrong," but after watching the video I don't think that's completely so.
- I wish we could see the interaction that started it all. Apparently the white woman bumped into the 15-year old girl as they were entering the restaurant? I don't see how this could become such an issue. Why couldn't both parties say, "Oh, excuse me," and walk on?
- If for no other reason, say "Excuse me" and walk on because -- as evidenced here -- some people are just plain crazy!
- According to the article, the teen says the white woman bumped into her and she (the teen) said, "Excuse you". Not the most polite thing to say, and not something that can be said without sarcasm. Then she says the white woman started cussing at her. Sounds pretty stupid on both sides -- both made a mountain out of a molehill /escalated something small into a big deal.
- When the video begins, the black mom and daughter are demanding an apology, but they won't let the white woman get a word in edgewise. They just keep screaming, "You're ignorant, you're ignorant."
- Definitely the black woman is the aggressor -- and her daughter isn't making things any better.
- I'm not buying self-defense (even though the woman's pregnant, and in other circumstances we might give her a little benefit of the doubt because of that). About a minute into the filming, she gets into the car. Her husband doesn't hurry to go to his side of the van. The woman then rolls down her window so she can argue some more. These aren't things you do if you're afraid.
- In the article the black woman says the white couple tried to run her over with their car. No, she saw them get into the car, and she moved /stood behind it. It looks like they're trying to leave /escape the situation, while she's trying to prevent them from leaving /trying to prolong the confrontation.
- The black woman is saying it's a racial thing, and at the end the daughter says, "They're white people. They're so racist." This doesn't seem to be a racial thing; rather, it seems to be a crazy person thing. On both sides.
- The white woman says, "White people aren't racist." I think she meant white people aren't automatically racist -- or fuss isn't about race. But what she actually said makes no sense.
- I halfheartedly agree that staying in the car and calling the police wouldn't have been an ideal choice -- not with the other woman literally banging on the car -- that's not assault, but it's something.
- The teen girl took the video? Why would she release it? It makes her mom look horrendously bad.
This is about a society that's gone too far towards "me first", and "what do you think you're looking at" and "you can't say that to me" and excessive egos all around. It's about people handling things like reality TV. It's about forgetting how to just be polite to one another. It's about people not being able to handle problems -- so they blow up into big problems.