Why didn't he open his doors and invite a bunch of the thugs in, take them back to his house, and have a discussion with them about their troubles. And when that was over, he could let them take everything they could carry from his house (reparations, ya know) and he would drive them home. Then next weekend, he and his wife would go to their neighborhood for a cookout.
What possessed the group to go there in the first place, and that not as individual or family visitors or tourists, but as a gang with the bullying of white people on their minds? What ever did the fair do to them that was (pardon the pun) unfair?
This article shows that even Liberals have survival instincts when it counts. Of course, he follows it up with self blame and flagellation once he's "safe". Reminds me of the liberals who flee Blue states for Red ones, but then lobby to recreate the same hell hole they left after they get settled.