...said Amberly Carter, a coordinator at the university’s Multicultural Resource Center who helped organize the rally. “So do we now stop defending black women because of what happened?”

Exactly. It doesn’t matter if the white woman who was assualted used a racial slur even: it doesn’t justify people physically harming her.

EXCEPT the original poster didn’t put up a link to the story or identify who was in the photos.

“what could’ve incited the women accused of assault”

Ahhh, so the victim was asking for it?

It’s closer to 60, actually. That’s why I hate these examples. Like, almost an entire lifetime has passed since that moment. I’m not saying he’s wrong, but there are better examples. This is low hanging fruit.

It’s not just the video. Do you see how busy that bus is? Not everyone on it was involved in the assault. The police officers interviewed several bystanders, who all said that the black women were the ones who initiated the assault. Now, don’t get me wrong, you can go ahead and believe that everybody lied if you want,…

Like that happens a lot in the last 50 years, silly.

Still, there’s debate over whether the video of the incident released tells the full story about what could’ve incited the women accused of assault.

Nothing someone says to you can justify assault. We actually have a legal term for this: Provocation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provocati…).

Jezebel does not seem to have a troll patrol forum but desperately needs one. Can someone do anything about this torture porn you’ve put up?

This is why people need to stop rushing to humiliate and trash people publicly and instead wait for actual information to surface before reacting to stuff like this.

Can you even see anyone trying to hit anyone? I presume this is what happened only because it looks like people are trying to hold someone apart, as to prevent a fight, but it’s so chaotic I couldn’t make it out. In my experience, people get offended over the dumbest things on public transit. I had a woman who was so…

They’ll be excellent company for the “false rape allegations” folks.

Regardless of what anyone SAID, physical violence isn’t justified. Isn’t that what everyone is taught today starting in kindergarten?

False accusations do not just destroy the credibility or reputation of the accuser but of every single actual victim who attempts to seek justice.

To be fair, if some white students lied about being attacked by black students, you guys would go apeshit. I think the backlash has been more than fair considering.