[luckyjimm]

I do find it difficult to avoid crude class and racial stereotyping.

I didn't mention that there were three or four black guys dressed in a kind of smart preppy hip-hop style who were in the crowd standing around the fight, and one of them held back the cafe-owner when he was about to smash the chair into the yob's head, because I feel like I can't mention their race, even though it forms part of the story - the big mix of people in this place, the craziness of the situation.

I can't think of a better way to describe how they looked except "dressed in a smart hip hop, P.Diddy type style", and that in itself is stereotyping, isn't it, as if I lack the knowledge, or interest, to be able to differentiate different types of black guys, so I choose the most obvious frame of reference.