Indeed, it emerged that there had been previous racial assaults outside the bagel shop.

They are investigating the incident as a racial assault.

Friday morning he consoled the black victims of a racial assault.

The defense has held that there was no racial assault but a confrontation provoked by the blacks.

The group said skinheads were linked to four racially motivated murders and two-thirds of the racial assaults that it documented last year.

One example stems from the racial assaults in Howard Beach three years ago.

But the pattern has never fixed itself in the public mind the way racial assaults have.

New York City is no stranger to racial assaults.

"I'm sorry you had to see that," Mr. Gottleib said of the racial assault at the main entrance.

Was she, in fact, a victim of a racial assault?