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Attacks on Indians in Australia continued unabated with yet another taxi driver being punched by his passengers, an assault described as "opportunistic" and "not racially motivated" by Police.
In the second such incident in as many days, the 25-year-old taxi driver suffered bruises on his body and swelling on the face after he was roughed up by his four male passengers in the Victorian city of Ballarat, 110- kms west of here just before mid-night last-night, police said.
The Ballart police constables dismissal of the attack as not racial came even as a top Victorian police official made a candid admission that there were "racists in Melbourne."
In the latest assault, police in a statement said, "the four became abusive towards the Indian driver while he was driving and started assaulting him with one-of-the passengers in the rear seat even spitting on him.

Source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20100116/365/twl-another-indian-taxi-driver-assaulted.html

Could you please explain to me the emboldened parts?