Via NewsBusters:
As the program began, O’Reilly said, “Shortly after 11PM on April 14, 26-year-old Marjon Rostami and 31-year-old David Forster were coming home from the theater when someone threw a rock at their vehicle.”
The pair worked for the local paper the Virginian-Pilot.
Forster got out to confront the rock-thrower only to be set upon by approximately five African-Americans who beat him.
Rostami got out of the car to help her boyfriend leading her to be attacked as the car was surrounded by a crowd of about 30 people.
She ended up calling 911, and the police filed a report describing the assault as a suspected hate/bias crime arresting a sixteen-year-old. That has since been changed; police are no longer claiming it was a hate/bias crime.
However, Fox News’s Jesse Waters interviewed a witness to the event who verified Rostami and Forster’s account claiming that he felt this was a racial episode tied to the Trayvon Martin incident in Florida.