What does Barbara Turnbull have to do with this????? It was '83 and she was a victim of pre-meditated armed robbery, not a bunch of guys mouthing off after a sport event in front of a TV camera.
How do you know it was premeditated? Where were you that night? But on a serious note, its all about what certain demographics think they can get away with and what the media has courage to report. About twenty years ago the Toronto Sun newspaper had a front page picture of a black male under arrest for assaulting a traffic cop, in the back of a police cruiser. It was an unflattering image of a gangsta ghetto dude smoking and it received criticism from other media outlets for its insensitive portrayal of minorities. So. yes I don't think Shawna would have approached a group of minorities. White males are easy targets.