Posted by news intern Jon Brock

Early Monday morning, officers received a call from a man in West Seattle who said that his roommate had been attacked on Capitol Hill nearly an hour before, according to a police report.

The victim "spoke very little English," but his roommate translated for police, records say. The man left a nightclub around 12:30 a.m. and was walking by himself down 13th Avenue near East Madison Street. "As he passed a dark parking lot, he was accosted by four unknown males who pushed him to the ground and began kicking him," the report says. The man "tried to protect his head during the attack but was kicked in the head once or twice, and repeatedly in the back and torso."

During the assault, the men were yelling racial slurs at victim. They said phrases like '''black motherfucker,' 'black ass,' and other references to the victim's race," the report says.

The assailants reportedly ran off when they noticed other people approaching. According to police records, the victim "stated he was not able to get a real good look at his assailants, but described them as appearing to be Hispanic, but was not sure if they were Hispanic because he did not detect an accent in their speech."

"He said the assailants did not take anything from him, nor did they exchange any words or conversation before they assaulted him," the report says. Seattle Police officers filed the case an "anti-black" bias crime.