REGARDING your report headlined 'Thugs attack boy in street' (LET, June 30), bearing in mind the dreadful scenes of sporadic violence occurring throughout East Lancashire lately, I just wondered if the police (or anybody) could put my mind at rest by answering my query: What exactly constitutes a racist attack?

I would like to point out that I am not a racist, but nevertheless found it quite worrying that in your story it states that "Both attackers were Asian but police have ruled out a racist motive."

What, so soon. Even though they have yet to be caught.

Now, it may just be my over active imagination, but had the roles been reversed, would they have come to the came conclusion -- and in such a lightning fast manner?

DEAN KING, Downham Street, Blackburn