That's a good question to ask "what if these were whites?" and the circumstances were switched. If these were whites, this would be a hate crime for targetting the only black ref on the field in the same way the only white one was targetted here.

It would be all over MSNBC and the like with headlines of "racism still a prevailing issue in our society". Instead, we find it on an AP youtube channel with 2,500 views.