As many as 60 black youths attacked pedestrians and drivers in Charleston, S.C. on April 26.
Witnesses and police say a mob of 60 black teens took to the streets of Charleston, South Carolina, to unleash attacks on unsuspecting drivers and pedestrians, all but one of whom were white.
Still, police aren’t concluding the attacks were racially motivated or that they came in angry response to the Baltimore-rooted protests over Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died from injuries suffered shortly after he was taken into police custody. The random violence also comes on the heels of a widely reported North Charleston police officer’s shooting of Walter Scott, a black man whose killing was captured on video.
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“The Walter Scott incident is fresh in their minds, and then there’s Baltimore,” said James Johnson, one of the leading local activists against police behavior in the Scott case, the Post and Courier reported. “But there’s no telling. It could be just spur of the moment. I’m hoping we can find out. Whatever it is, we’ve got to go to the root of the problem so it doesn’t happen again.”
The black-on-white attacks, called in to 9-1-1 dispatchers, occurred after the teens came out of a YWCA party, the newspaper reported.
A local station, meanwhile, reported a mob of 15 or so teens tearing through one community’s streets, angrily screaming and intimidating citizens.
“It was like swarms of bees, I guess … where it just kind of comes in and they’re all yelling and screaming and then I’ve never seen so many policemen coming down the street and the kids would disperse real quickly,” said witness Kathleen Russell, to WBTW.
The calls for emergency assistance were panicked in many instances.