Here’s a companion article about a meeting with cops and neighborhood people. Cops basic concern is that the attacked people shouldn’t defend themselves, and one cop essentially calls these people racists.
http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-27/news/30208589_1_white-teens-attackers-angry-mob
Tensions Running High in Port Richmond in Wake of Recent Violence
By Tara Murtha
SIX. All but one is local news, and the sixth is from the British Daily Mail.
You know that if the colors had been reversed, there would be a thousand articles, and it would by national TV news. I know this because when a very similar incident occurred in Greys Ferry in 1997, it was ALL OVER the news, complete with a Nation of Islam march through the white neighborhood later.