He openly regarded criticisms by elected councillors and community leaders as a politically motivated assault upon the police service.

The police, retreating from earlier accounts, conclude that the melee, though brutal, did not begin as a racially motivated assault.

Instead, they say his argument that the Texas case is a politically motivated assault by a Democratic prosecutor may gain traction among party loyalists.

The changes, he writes, are "ideologically motivated assaults on the intellectual and moral substance of our culture."

The police arrested four men and charged them with a racially motivated assault.

More than 1,500 racially motivated assaults have been recorded so far this year, up from 270 in 1990.

Whites were the reported victims of 42 racially motivated assaults, primarily by blacks, as opposed to 9 reported last year.

In the other, a 35-year-old black educator accused the police of a racially motivated assault on him last month.

In 2009, an Asian student was the victim of an alleged racially motivated assault.

The law was successfully challenged by a black man who was convicted of leading a racially motivated assault on a white teen-ager.