Were they walking under an apple tree?
To pelt someone with 40 apples would take several minutes. even doing it fast would require 3 to 4 seconds for each one. Times 40 would be more than 3 minutes. It would seem to be pretty obvious that you would need to move right along regardless of the motive. Unless of course you had large mob which again would have also been very obvious.
Phony BS again by the left.
It would also require at least $20 for the apples, unless these college students had a car to drive to a remote farm stand instead of paying urban prices. The convenience stores in this suburb charge a dollar for a single apple. The chain grocery sells them for $2 a pound, which equals about $.60 per apple, depending on size. Forty apples would cost $24 to $40. So I guess the racist apple-throwers are also trust fund babies...