The police said the attack was racially motivated and are investigating whether others were involved.

Indeed, several community and political leaders suggested that the attack was racially motivated.

If anybody from the white South says or does anything, it's always racially motivated.

Officials said it was not clear that the shooting had been racially motivated.

"People see within their hearts that this thing was racially motivated."

The authorities said the men's actions were not racially motivated.

The attack, which police said was racially motivated, left at least four people injured.

The women said that the attack might have been racially motivated.

Members of these community groups considered the measures to be racially motivated.

But, he said, many were racially motivated "and they tend to play off one another."