Watched all the videos, heard all the viewpoints. The Black Hebrew Israelites acted unfortunately, but were stationary and very outnumbered. If that were a group of several dozen Black boys chanting and chest beating and wearing MAGA hats or something as implicitly threatening, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
What were those boys doing unsupervised? Why were they allowed to wear political paraphernalia/white nationalist paraphernalia on a school trip in the first place? Why, if the smug one was intimidated and wanted to keep the peace, didn't he take some steps back and tell his friends to shut up and back off? And why did these folks hire a PR firm or a lawyer to write a letter on his behalf? Because no way that letter was written by a high school student.