Was race a factor in this dispute?I don't know about early on but once it going it looks like it was.
Once the fight commenced with the black family hitting these white people with bats and fists. Other blacks, seeing a chance to get a few free shots in on whitey, joined in to help.
Broadview is almost all black. What the Sun Times is now doing is to spin the story. The first story tells that Bauers allowed the girl to go ahead in line and then she let her "relatives" cut in front of her. Two men waitng in the parking lot beat the couple with a bat. Now if the tapes actually show this to be a black on white beating why can't this be called a hate crime? Almost certain if the roles were reversed. This incident may have nothing to do with race but it seems the Sun Times is trying to soften the facts.