It sounds like this incident:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... tiona.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/sect ... le=8457812" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Short version: In Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, during a highly publicized hiring event at a McDonald's restaurant, two women got into a physical altercation. The stories are not very clear, but one got into a car and ran into a crowd, injuring four people. The woman was arrested later.
A witness said, "...they were fighting over drama,
hood stuff."
The first link above contains some really shocking video of the event. Try telling me one man could have done anything to control that situation.
The basic ethical question is whether your actions are going to do more good than harm, and the good includes avoiding harm to yourself. Easy to ask, difficult to answer. (Just call me Yoda.
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I also have to say, I grew up in a place where racial tension was often close to the boiling point. A confrontation between people of different races could turn into a mob scene, and the party who was in the minority could be the object of conflicting and false accusations.
This particular location was probably ripe for this kind of emotional explosion, with hundreds of people applying for jobs.
- Jim