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Police are investigating reports that a group of black males shouting racial slurs attacked a white man on Targee Street in Stapleton Friday afternoon, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Just days after a white South Carolina man allegedly gunned down nine black churchgoers, police are investigating reports that a group of black males shouting racial slurs attacked a white man on Targee Street in Stapleton Friday afternoon, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

The 28-year-old victim was walking southbound on Targee Street around 3 p.m. when he was approached by the violent mob, the spokeswoman said.

The attackers, who were not known to the victim, hurled racial epithets and assorted debris at the victim, including glass bottles, pieces of lumber and a fluorescent light bulb, she said.

A friend intervened and took the victim to Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, for medical treatment, the spokeswoman said. His condition was not immediately available.

The NYPD spokeswoman said the department's Hate Crimes Task Force would likely be investigating the incident. As of Saturday afternoon, no arrests had been made.