They were set upon by white youths yelling racial epithets.
Not that people on the street yelled racial epithets, he said, "But it was the idea that they stared."
The police say the incident, which began as a dispute over firecrackers, became a racial one, with some of the whites yelling racial epithets.
The police said the woman, who is black, told investigators that her attackers yelled racial epithets at her.
About 7 percent were milder forms of harassment, usually people yelling racial epithets.
Some neighborhood children once yelled epithets at them as the two walked down a Mount Greenwood street.
Witnesses reported that the assailants yelled racial epithets at Ramirez as they attacked him.
He had been swinging at the staff, she said, and yelling racial epithets.
At the very farthest limit of the light from the port, round bodies could be seen, running among the boulders as they yelled epithets.
Standing over her, yelling epithets without stop, was an older man.