About 30 youths then pounded on the van with baseball bats, but Michael Gundling was able to drive away and get to a hospital. An elderly couple reportedly were pulled from their Jeep and beaten with rocks. An albino black woman told the Cincinnati Enquirer she was targeted because a mob mistakenly thought she was white. One struck her in the head. Local television stations reported that there were several other incidents of white motorists attacked by blacks wielding bottles, bricks and baseball bats.
Racial hatred is racial hatred, and the venom spews in all directions.
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